Foucault News

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

Saran Ghatak & Andrew Stuart Abel, Power/Faith: Governmentality, Religion, and Post-Secular Societies (2013) International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 26 (3), pp. 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-013-9141-z Abstract Foucault’s concept of governmentality, and its attending modalities of biopower and disciplinary technologies, provides a useful conceptual schema for the analysis of the role of religious and quasi-religious institutions …

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Nikolas Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Neuro:The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind, Princeton University Press, 2013 The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems …

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Arthur E. Walzer, Parrēsia, Foucault, and the Classical Rhetorical Tradition (2013) Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 43 (1), pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2012.740130 Abstract In his last seminars, Michel Foucault analyzed parrēsia (frank speech) in classical Greece and Rome, a subject also addressed by classical rhetoricians. Foucault regards parrēsia as an idealized modality of truth telling-unartful, sincere, courageous speech …

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  Collège International de Philosophie Séminaire de recherche et d’enseignement sous la direction de Orazio Irrera et Matthieu Renault Race et colonialisme. Sur les épistémologies de la décolonisation [Editor: Update 14 April 2026. See list of seminars 2011-2017] Séminaire organisé en collaboration avec l’Université Paris-Est Créteil – EA4395 LIS, la revue materiali foucaultiani et avec …

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Ondrej Ditrych, From discourse to dispositif: States and terrorism between Marseille and 9/11 (2013) Security Dialogue, 44 (3), pp. 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010613484076 Abstract This article is a historical study of how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s; under what conditions these statements have been articulated; and what effects the discourses made up of …

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Carla Edgley, A genealogy of accounting materiality, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 255-271 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2013.06.001 Abstract This study explores the relevance of the historical dimensions of the materiality concept and its past role. Metaphors applied to materiality provide insights into conditions and traces of power that have shaped its discursive configuration. …

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Paul Veyne à propos de Michel Foucault Emission Le cercle de minuit France 2 (television), 22 juin 1994 Dans son émission consacrée au philosophe Michel FOUCAULT, Michel FIELD reçoit Paul VEYNE, professeur au Collège de France. L’historien parle de la vie de salon très agréable que Michel FOUCAULT avait recréée et de l’influence que le …

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James Lee, Ethopoiesis: Foucault’s late ethics and the sublime body (2013) New Literary History, 44 (1), pp. 179-198. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2013.0005. Abstract This paper argues that Neil Hertz’s model of the sublime turn allows us to perceive the aesthetic, and specifically literary, consequences of Foucault’s late ethics reimagined as a sublime poetics. In doing so, the present …

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