Foucault News

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

Steven Dorrestijn, Technical Mediation and Subjectivation: Tracing and Extending Foucault’s Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy & Technology, June 2012, Volume 25, Issue 2, pp 221-241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-011-0057-0 Abstract This article focuses on tracing and extending Michel Foucault’s contributions to the philosophy of technology. At first sight his work on power seems the most relevant. In his later …

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En septembre 2013 paraîtront chez Vrin (Paris) les premiers deux volumes de la nouvelle collection « Philosophie du présent », dirigée par Jean-François Braunstein, Arnold I. Davidson et Daniele Lorenzini. PDF Le but de cette collection est de mettre au centre des interrogations philosophiques la question du présent, de notre présent, et de réactiver, à …

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In French with no subtitles. From a series titled Le Temps des Philosophes. 4. Philosophie et Vérité. Entretien entre Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Foucault, Dina Dreyfus and Alain Badiou. The original program was produced by Radio-Télévision scolaire in 1965 and released on VHS in 1993 by the Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique. …

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Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Ernst Cassirer It is unfortunate that no one has gotten around to translating Michel Foucault’s 1966 review of the French translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophie der Aufklärung.1 Granted, it is a short text and – prior to its reprinting in Foucault’s Dits et Ecrits – finding it required some (though…

Lecture starts at 9 mins 30 (Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, argues that genealogies (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault) present the revenge of naturalism on rationalism. Hegel teaches us how to replace the genealogical hermeneutics of suspicion with a hermeneutics of magnanimity that allows us to see naturalism and rationalism …

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Nicole Brémaud, Poitiers : le philosophe Michel Foucault à l’honneur dans sa ville natale France Info, Originally Posted on the Poitou-Charentes site 30 March 2013 La bibliothèque universitaire porte désormais le nom du célèbre philosophe internationalement reconnu. L’intellectuel militant s’est élevé toute sa vie contre les différentes formes d’oppression et d’enfermement. […] Notre équipe a …

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Lynne Huffer, Foucault: What could be otherwise (2013) Economic and Political Weekly, 48 (18), pp. 21-23. Abstract A noteworthy conversation that took place in September 1971 between Michel Foucault and Dutch philosopher Fons Elders is to be published for the first time later this year. It reiterates some of the best-known Foucauldian positions on the Enlightenment idea of reason, madness, …

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Richard Weiskopf and Hugh Willmott, Ethics as Critical Practice: The “Pentagon Papers”, Deciding Responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality (2013) Organization Studies, 34 (4), pp. 469-493.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840612470256 Abstract This paper contributes to the development of a practice-based understanding of ethics. Ethics is here conceived as a critical practice of questioning and problematizing moral orders and moral rules-in-use in …

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Campbell, P., Kelly, P. In/Between Feminism and Foucault: Iraqi Women’s War Blogs and Intellectual Practices of the Self (2013) Critical Sociology, 39 (2), pp. 183-199.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920511431851 Abstract In this article we inquire into the forms of intellectual work that are possible when non-Muslim, non-Arab, western academics (female PhD candidate, male PhD supervisor) seek to work together to analyse the war-blogs …

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