Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault: À l’épreuve du pouvoir. Édité par Edouard Jolly, Philippe Sabot, Septentrion Presses Universitaires, mai 2013 Description Tout au long de son œuvre, Michel Foucault n’a cessé d’interroger les formes et les dispositifs de pouvoir qui définissent, dans nos sociétés modernes, les modalités du contrôle social et de la production normative des individualités déviantes …

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Call for sponsorship to buy Michel Foucault’s archives Paris, 8 May 2013, Art Media Agency (AMA). The Ministry of Culture sent out a call for sponsorship to French companies in order to purchase the archives of Michel Foucault. The archives of the French philosopher consist of 37,000 hand-written or typed documents. The Bibliothèque Nationale de …

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Fryer D., Duckett P.: Publishing, Overview. In: Teo T. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology: Springer Reference (www.springerreference.com). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. Introduction Within the discipline of psychology publishing is widely positioned as ‘a good thing’. Within the discourse currently dominant, publication in ‘peer reviewed’ journals (publication of and in books is less favoured in psychology …

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Naissance de la clinique de Michel Foucault : cinquante ans après PDF of flyer Vendredi 31 mai 2013 : École normale supérieure 46 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris Salle des Conférences Samedi 1er juin 2013 : Université Paris Descartes 83 boulevard Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris Salle du Conseil (entrée libre) Avec le concours de l’Association pour le …

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Article in national newspaper  O GLOBO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Karine Rodrigues, PUC-Rio debate palestras de Michel Foucault no Brasil 40 anos depois Filósofo francês causou frisson em ciclo de conferências realizada em plena ditadura, na Gávea Livro sobre o evento de 1973, “A verdade e as formas jurídicas” vai ser relançado em colóquio realizado …

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Moore, F. Governmentality and the maternal body: Infant mortality in early twentieth-century Lancashire (2013) Journal of Historical Geography, 39, pp. 54-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2012.09.003 Abstract In an empirical extension of and theoretical commentary on Foucault’s work on governmentality, this paper takes the liberal governance of women, specifically mothers, as its focus. In Britain at the turn of …

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Vrasti, W. Universal but not truly ‘global’: Governmentality, economic liberalism, and the international (2013) Review of International Studies, 39 (1), pp. 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210511000568 Abstract This article responds to issues raised about global governmentality studies by Jan Selby, Jonathan Joseph, and David Chandler, especially regarding the implications of ‘scaling up’ a concept originally designed to describe …

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Décès du prix Nobel de médecine François Jacob, à 92 ans AFP 22/04/2013, Midi Libre.fr Le biologiste avait notamment écrit “La logique du vivant”, qualifiée de plus remarquable histoire de la biologie par le philosophe Michel Foucault. (AFP THOMAS COEX) Le prix Nobel de médecine, François Jacob, s’est éteint vendredi à l’âge de 92 ans. …

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