Foucault News

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

Jennings, M. Breaking free to the limit: Playing with Foucault, Otto, and pentecostal experience (2014) Journal of Contemporary Religion, 29 (1), pp. 33-45. Abstract This article explores different phenomenological approaches to understanding one of the central elements of Pentecostal spirituality: the ecstatic experience of the divine (often referred to as the encounter of the divine). …

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Matthew Chrulew, Pastoral counter-conducts: Religious resistance in Foucault’s genealogy of Christianity, Critical Research on Religion, April 2014 vol. 2 no. 1 55-65 https://doi.org/10.1177/205030321452 Abstract The internal resistance to religious forms of power is often at issue in Michel Foucault’s genealogy of Christianity. For this anti-clerical Nietzschean, religion is, like science, always a battle over bodies …

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A brief genealogy of governmentality studies: the Foucault effect and its developments. An interview with Colin Gordon by Fabiana Jardim, Educação e Pesquisa, vol.39 no.4 São Paulo Oct./Dec. 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-97022013000400016 Full text available from this link ABSTRACT This interview approaches the intellectual context within the areas of philosophy and social sciences, in the 1970s United …

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Alexa Lawrence, See 11 Heady Books Transformed into Ikebana Flower Displays Posted on Art News, 06/18/14 Camille Henrot channels Japanese zen gardens with an installation of floral odes to her favorite books The gracefully balanced flower arrangements of Camille Henrot’s installation “Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers” (2012-2014) occupy the second …

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Thinking Historically About Neoliberalism: Nick Gane’s response to Will Davies, Theory, Culture and Society, May 28, 2014 In 1971, Michel Foucault wrote a short polemic, entitled ‘Monstrosities in Criticism’, that took issue with reviews of Madness and Civilization and The Order of Things that had been published by Jean-Marc Pelorson and George Steiner. Foucault opened …

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Patrick Gamez, Ricoeur and Foucault: Between Ontology and Critique, Etudes Ricoeuriennes/ Ricoeur Studies (ERSS), Vol 4, No 2 (2013) doi: 10.5195/errs.2013.160 Link to full PDF Abstract In this paper, I trace some of Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault in his major works on historiography, and evaluate them. I find that Ricoeur’s criticisms of Foucault’s archaeological project in …

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Semester 2 tutoring vacancy for Habermas/Foucault-based subject at Swinburne A tutor is needed at Swinburne for a two-hour Friday afternoon Social and Political Philosophy tutorial centred around Habermasian deliberative democracy and Foucauldian power relations, for twelve weeks  starting  8 August next.  Please email a CV and expression of interest, preferably by Monday next, 14 July, …

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