Foucault News

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

24h Prison: A-t-on cessé de penser la prison après Michel Foucault ? A l’occasion de la journée spéciale France Culture “24h en prison : Surveiller, punir et après ?“. Radio broadcast 15.02.2013 Avec : Mathieu POTTE-BONNEVILLE Christophe PROCHASSON Geneviève FRAISSE Mathieu POTTE-BONNEVILLE : « Surveiller et punir aura bientôt quarante ans. Ce livre est devenu un classique …

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Steven Ogden, Power: Michel Foucault, human identity and the church. In Phillip Wayne Tolliday, Heather Thomson (eds). Speaking Differently: Essays on Theological Anthropology, Canberra: Barton Books, 2013. Extract from chapter This chapter will use an aspect of the work of Michel Foucault (1926–1984) on power to explore this relationship and then, as a case study, …

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Translators wanted For the next volume of Pli, The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, which will be dedicated to the thought, influence, and intellectual context of Jean Hyppolite, we are currently looking for translators for texts from French. One of the texts concerns Hyppolite and Foucault; the others concern Hyppolite and Michel Henry. If you might …

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Philosophy Seminars 2013 The Writing and Society Research Centre and Philosophy@UWS present: Vanessa Lemm, A Biopolitical Reading of the Philosophical Life in Michel Foucault’s Le courage de la vérité University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54 20 March 2013 3.30-5pm Abstract: This paper investigates the relation between truth and the philosophical life …

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Un clandestin philosophique : le freudo-marxisme français. Luca Paltrinieri (CIRPP/CIRPHLES) Séminaire “Archives de la philosophie française”. 8 mars 2013, 17h-19h, salle séminaires du Pavillon Pasteur, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005, Paris. Mouvement populaire et militant, le freudo-marxisme français ne semble pas relever de la tradition philosophique. Pourtant, il est difficile de comprendre le succès de Marcuse …

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Foucault and the critique of our present: reworking the Foucauldian tool-box. A workshop organized with the support of the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths and of mf / materiali foucaultiani Sophie Fuggle (Goldsmiths)- “An Overprisoned Population?” Time: 6 March 2013, 17:00 – 19:00 Location: 250, Richard Hoggart Building Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London …

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Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’, An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2013 Book Description This is a step-by-step guide to Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge. In the first volume of his History of Sexuality, The Will to Knowledge, Foucault weaves …

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One-Day Conference Critica e saperi assoggettati: Uno sguardo foucaultiano sui movimenti attuali Interventions by Giso Amendola, Sandro Chignola, Ottavio Marzocca, Sandro Mezzadra, Judith Revel, Gigi Roggero, Anna Simone, Martina Tazzioli, Adelino Zanini Friday, March 8, 2013, 9.30 am Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Strada Maggiore 45, aula Jemolo pdf flyer program Programma Mattina ore 09.30 …

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