Foucault News

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

Review of two books inspired by Foucault: Yves Citton, Renverser l’insoutenable, Paris: Seuil, 2012 Sous la direction de Fabienne Brugère et Guillaume le Blanc, Michaël Foessel, Marie Gaille, Judith Revel, Pierre Zaoui Dictionnaire politique à l’usage des gouvernés, Paris: Bayard, 2012 Dans le bel Avant-propos de leur livre écrit à quatre mains, Philippe Artières et …

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Michel Foucault, La grande étrangère: À propos de littérature. Édité et présenté par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville et Judith Revel. Paris: Editions EHESS. mars 2013 Publisher’s page Michel Foucault entretient avec la littérature une relation complexe, critique, stratégique. Les documents inédits qui composent le présent volume en témoignent magnifiquement.. Sade, Cervantes, Artaud, Shakespeare….Le …

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Michel Foucault (2013) Speech begins after death, University of Minnesota Press. $24.95 cloth/jacket ISBN 978-0-8166-8320-8 96 pages, 5 x 8, March 2013 In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing …

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Foucault et la psychanalyse : Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, 50 ans après? Samedi 24 novembre 2012, Amphi Buffon, Université Paris Diderot 15 rue Hélène Brion 75013 Paris Métro, RER C et bus : arrêt : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand. Université Paris-Diderot Paris 7 – UFR d’Etudes Psychanalytiques Journée scientifique du CRPMS Argument En …

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Carolyn Hardin (2012). Finding the ‘Neo’ in Neoliberalism. Cultural Studies, 28(2), 199–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.748815 Abstract ‘Liberalism’ and ‘neoliberalism’ have become important shorthand terms in critical work that seeks to incorporate issues of economics into ideological and epochal analyses. Yet, these terms incorporate theoretical histories and refer to historical contexts so vast that they can seem ambiguous …

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La folie et la fête. Michel Foucault (1963) Text from youtube Premier temps d’une série de cinq émissions intitulée « L’usage de la parole : les langages de la folie ». Pour l’interprétation des textes Michel Foucault est accompagné de Marguerite Cassan, Pierre Delpont, Abel Jacquin, Catherine Le Couey et de Claude Martin. Émission radio, …

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Text from youtube (edited) From the European Graduate School. François Noudelmann, contemporary philosopher, discussing the relation between, philosophy, truth and lying. During the seminar he refers to Nietzsche, Foucault, Freud and Marx. Noudelmann talks also about optimism, resilience, hope and compares the statements of Hegel, Socrates and Platon by reading passages from Nietzsche’s Human, All …

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Lester K. Spence, The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, 2013, pages 139-159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2012.763682 Abstract The neoliberal turn arguably has a powerful effect on black political ideas, black political practices, and black life in general; the nature of this effect has gone …

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Seminar 10: Foucault and the critique of our present: reworking the Foucauldian tool-box, Goldsmiths College, University of London Michael Dillon – “Foucault: Political Spirituality and the Courage of Truth” Description: “What is this present which I belong to?”. This was the question asked by Foucault recalling Kant’s writing on the Enlightenment. This is also the …

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