Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Michel Foucault, “Message or noise?”, Translated by Christopher O’Neill, Parrhesia 39 · 2024 · 18-24 Open access Extract In order to “situate” medicine amongst other forms of knowledge (savoir), we have become accustomed to the use of linear schemas. Above the level of the body, the soul; below the level of the organism, the tissues. …

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William Tilleczek, Between Authority and Care, Plato’s Crito as Defense of the Philosophical Life, Dionysius, Vol. 39 (2024) Abstract This paper addresses the question as to why Socrates stays to die in prison through a novel reading of the Crito oriented by the Foucaultian notion of care (epimeleia). It argues that the Laws do not …

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William Tilleczek Receives the 2024 Leo Strauss Award for “Powers of Practice: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Asceticism”, Political Science Now, August 9, 2024 The Leo Strauss Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in political philosophy. Citation from the Award Committee: Dr. Tilleczek’s …

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Elden, S. (2024). Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France. History of European Ideas, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2391378 ABSTRACT This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in France. It looks at the 1951 election of a successor to Étienne Gilson at the Collège de France, for which …

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Stuart Blaney, Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michel Foucault’s ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranciere’s ideas on equality. Building a dialogue between …

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Elden, Stuart. “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity.” Journal of the History of Ideas 85, no. 3 (2024): 571-600. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a933859. Abstract: The biographical links between Michel Foucault and the comparative mythologist and philologist Georges Dumézil have received more attention than their intellectual connections. This article contributes by surveying Foucault’s engagements, from a 1957 radio lecture to …

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Les Temps qui restent Newsletter L’ancien comité de rédaction des Temps Modernes, liquidé par Gallimard en 2018 au lendemain de la disparition de Claude Lanzmann, a réuni un très large collectif international, convaincu qu’une revue généraliste animée par la notion d’engagement a plus de sens que jamais dans le contexte actuel, marqué par des années …

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Giorgi Vachnadze, The Bio-Politics of Artificial Intelligence: Pastoral Technologies and Eschatological Narratives, Epoché, Issue #73 July 2024 Extract In agreement with Hubert Dreyfus (1972), we could easily say: “The story of artificial intelligence might well begin around 450 B.C.” That won’t give us much beyond words however. That’s not the commitment we can make for …

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Appel | Bourse internationale Imec/Centre Michel Foucault 2025 DATE LIMITE DE RÉCEPTION DES DOSSIERS : 15 novembre 2024 Disparu il y a quarante ans, Michel Foucault continue d’inspirer profondément la pensée contemporaine. L’Imec et le Centre Michel Foucault lancent un appel à candidature pour l’attribution de la quatrième Bourse internationale IMEC/Centre Michel Foucault Ouverte prioritairement …

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