Foucault News

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

Elden, S. Canguilhem, Dumézil, Hyppolite: Georges Canguilhem and his Contemporaries (2024) Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 307 (1), pp. 27-48. DOI: 10.3917/rip.307.0027 Abstract In the original preface to his primary doctoral thesis Folie et déraison, Michel Foucault thanked three men as intellectual mentors and influences on his work. In his inaugural lecture at the Collège de …

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Krylova, A. Foucault, Post-structuralism, and the Fixed “Openness of History” (2024) Modern Intellectual History DOI: 10.1017/S1479244324000088 Abstract Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians’ encounter with post-structuralist theory, the ensuing triumphant surge of the cultural turn, and the establishment of what scholars have recently called the postcultural historiography without the help of such paramount concepts …

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Special Issue: Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault: A Comparison of their Historical Methodologies, ed. Edmund Neill, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Volume 18 (2024): Issue 3 (Nov 2024) Free access Introduction: the Challenge of Arendt and Foucault on History Author: Edmund Neill Restricted Access Reason to Hope? Arendt, Foucault, and the Escape from Politics …

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Scelsa, J.A. The museum: An urban threshold (2024) In Gregory Marinic (ed), The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, Routledge, pp. 108-115. DOI: 10.4324/9780429443091-15 Abstract The evolution of the museum is a story of the functional problems of designing spaces for display within a larger framework. The museum has been identified by Michel Foucault as an ‘otherspace,’ …

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Serene Richards, Biopolitics as a System of Thought, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this …

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Naz, Z. ‘Tick boxes are just tick boxes’: Problematising evidence-based teaching and exploring the space of the possible through a complexity lens (2024) Policy Futures in Education, . DOI: 10.1177/14782103241240542 Abstract This article seeks to provide a new paradigm for questioning how quality and excellence in teaching practices are understood and evaluated. By combining ideas …

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Isegoría Núm. 70 (2024) Ejemplaridad y moralidad. Desafección política y nuevos vínculos sociales Michel Foucault y la religión DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2024.i70 Publicado: 2024-06-30 Michel Foucault y la religión Presentación. Pensar la religión con Michel Foucault Martín Bernales Odino, Agustín Colombo [es] Arqueología y experiencia en la Historia de la sexualidad de Michel Foucault Juan Vicente Cortés …

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Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence. Freedom, Nature and Agency, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores its implications for ethics. In order to distinguish Foucault’s position, Falzon charts the historical trajectory of …

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Bloch, S., Olivares-Pelayo, E.A. Prison geographies: Nine disciplinary approaches (2024) Geography Compass, 18 (3) DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12742 Abstract Motivated by a critical concern for state-sanctioned coercion, control, and containment across “free society,” geographers have extended Foucault’s concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces and processes. In this paper, however, we aim to re-center …

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