Foucault News

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

Critique de la participation et gouvernementalité, Participations N° 6, 2013/2, 228 pages Special Issue Further info SOMMAIRE Dossier : Critique de la participation et gouvernementalité Page 5 à 33 Guillaume Gourgues et al. Gouvernementalité et participation Lectures critiques Page 35 à 63 Pierre Sauvêtre La problématisation de la participation à travers l’histoire de la gouvernementalité …

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Jean-Claude Monod, La méditation cartésienne de Foucault, Les Études philosophiques, 2013/3 (n° 106), pp. 345-58 DOI : 10.3917/leph.133.0345. Résumé Foucault a souligné l’importance, pour la philosophie française du xxe siècle, des Méditations cartésiennes de Husserl, prononcées à la Sorbonne en 1929. Contrairement à Husserl, Foucault n’a pas réactivé le geste cartésien de l’auto-méditation et de …

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Adam Davidson-Harden, What is social sciences and humanities research ‘Worth’? Neoliberalism and the framing of social sciences and humanities work in Canada (2013) Policy Futures in Education, 11 (4), pp. 375-386. https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2013.11.4.387 Abstract This article offers a critique of the discursive politics represented in attempts to frame social sciences and humanities work in the mould …

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Erzsébet Strausz, Being in Discourse with Foucault:The Practice of Life, Theory & Event, Volume 16, Issue 4, 2013 Further info Abstract This article performs an experimental reading of Foucault’s selected writings as a creative intervention into the operation of “discourse” and our formation in it both as academic “knowers” and subjects of contemporary government. Drawing …

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Roland Sintos Coloma, Ladlad and Parrhesiastic Pedagogy: Unfurling LGBT Politics and Education in the Global South (2013) Curriculum Inquiry, 43 (4), pp. 483-511. https://doi.org/10.1111/curi.12020 Abstract This article examines the political and educational activism of Ladlad, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party in the Philippines and the only existing LGBT political party …

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Interview: William Davies and Nicholas Gane on Neoliberalism Neoliberalism and the Ethos of Competition: William Davies and Nicholas Gane in discussion In this interview for the TCS Website (18 December 2013), William Davies and Nicholas Gane discuss competition, monopoly, markets, neoliberalism and Foucault. NG: You have a forthcoming book in the TCS book series called …

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Fadyl, J.K., Nicholls, D.A., McPherson, K.M. Interrogating discourse: The application of Foucault’s methodological discussion to specific inquiry (2013) Health (United Kingdom), 17 (5), pp. 478-494. Abstract Discourse analysis following the work of Michel Foucault has become a valuable methodology in the critical analysis of a broad range of topics relating to health. However, it can …

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Marcelo Hoffman Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power, Bloomsbury, 2013 publisher’s page About Foucault and Power Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities and his analysis of power remains unclear. The book explores this relationship to explain the …

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Nicolas Thirion, Des rapports entre droit et vérité selon Foucault : une illustration des interactions entre les pratiques juridiques et leur environnement, Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques, 2013/1 (Volume 70), pp. 180-88 Further info Premières lignes Les deux questions posées aux contributeurs de la présente livraison de la Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques sont d’une ampleur telle …

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