Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, Paris, Vrin, coll. « Philosophie du présent / Foucault inédit », 2013 (168 pages, ISBN 978-2-7116-2509-3, 14€). Édition établie par Henri-Paul Fruchaud et Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction et apparat critique par L. Cremonesi, A.I. Davidson, O. Irrera, D. Lorenzini, M. Tazzioli. En novembre …

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Communiqué de presse Collège International de Philosophie 1, rue Descartes F – 75005 Paris Diogo Sardinha élu Président de l’Assemblée collégiale du Collège International de Philosophie Le Collège International de Philosophie a élu à la fin du mois de septembre le nouveau président de son Assemblée collégiale pour un mandat de 3 ans : Diogo …

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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), 180-88. Further info and PDF for download Abstract La contribution est consacrée à la présentation synthétique de deux ouvrages récemment parus transcrivant la parole délivrée par …

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Gabriel Hürlimann, Hobbes, Foucault et la peur de la révolte, Rue Descartes 2013/1 (n° 77), 52-68 Further info and full article Sommaire Traduit de l’allemand par Ariane Kiatibian Dans cet article, une lecture foucaldienne du Léviathan de Hobbes nous permettra de soutenir la thèse selon laquelle un examen attentif de l’argument contractualiste de Hobbes en …

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Christopher Chitty, Foucault’s Addendum, The New Inquiry, 3 September 2013 Finally published, Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71, his first year teaching at the Collège de France, demolish the caricatures of his thought. On the first page of the lecture notes of January 27, 1971, Michel Foucault scrawled “incomplete” in his notoriously undisciplined hand. This bit …

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Mark Muhannad Ayyash, The paradox of political violence (2013) European Journal of Social Theory, 16 (3), pp. 342-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431013476567 Abstract This article explores the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence. By examining the works of prominent theorists, such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon, the article highlights both the …

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Verena Erlenbusch, The place of sovereignty: Mapping power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault (2013) Critical Horizons, 14 (1), pp. 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1179/15685160X13A.0000000003 Abstract This article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. By unpacking Foucault’s genealogy of modern governmentality, it responds to a criticism …

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Lorenzini, Daniele. “What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?” Le foucaldien 1, no. 1 (2015): 1–5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.2 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.] Originally published online 28 October 2013 Open access Abstract In this paper, I offer an overview of the ways in which Foucault defines and uses the concept of ‘regime of …

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From the Critical Theory blog Eugene Wolters, Listen to Foucault Lecture in English: The Culture of the Self, 27 September 2013 In the following audio recording, Michel Foucault lectures at UC Berkeley in 1983, a year before his death, on the subject “The Culture of the Self.” Foucault starts with a story written by Greek …

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Source Variazioni foucaultiani [Editor: 13 April 2026. Details and links updated.] The translated article can be found here Michel Foucault, “Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur.” Critical Inquiry 47, no. 1 (2020): 121–34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48799742. See also Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, “Introduction to Michel Foucault’s ‘Political Spirituality as the Will …

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