Sanna Karkulehto, The ‘Greatest Finn’ meets the ‘Gay Marshal’: Foucault’s cycle, national narratives and The Butterfly of the Urals, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol 1, no.2, June 2011 https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.1.2.177_1 Abstract The article examines the case of the ‘Gay Marshal’, the late C.G.E. Mannerheim, president of Finland, supreme commander of Finnish military forces during World War …
Le Seuil and Gallimard, publishers of the official French editions of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, are looking for copies of audio tape recordings of Foucault’s lecture series on La société punitive at the Collège de France in Winter and Spring 1973. These lectures were delivered from January to March 1973. If …
Bob Robinson, Michel Foucault: Ethics, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy The French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984) does not understand ethics as moral philosophy, the metaphysical and epistemological investigation of ethical concepts (metaethics) and the investigation of the criteria for evaluating actions (normative ethics), as Anglo-American philosophers do. Instead, he defines ethics as a relation …
Kim Su Rasmussen, Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism, Theory, Culture & Society September 2011 vol. 28 no. 5 34-51 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411410448 Abstract This paper argues that Foucault’s genealogy of racism deserves appreciation due to the highly original concept of racism as biopolitical government. Modern racism, according to Foucault, is not merely an irrational prejudice, a form of …
EPTC Incubator Workshop—Philosophy and/as Biopolitics The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is looking for submissions for the Second ETPC Incubator. This event will be a collaborative workshop with presentations of work-in-progress as well as paper presentations on this year’s theme: Philosophy and/as Biopolitics. Some of the most important thinkers from the …
Nielsen, Cynthia R. (2011), Unearthing consonances in Foucault’s accourn of Greco-Roman self-writing and Christian technologies of the self, The Heythrop Journal, pp. 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00694.x Opening paragraphs Although his critics claim otherwise, Michel Foucault understood his work as consistently focused in one way or another on the genealogy of the subject and the construction of subjectivities.1 …
Diogo Sardinha, Ordre et temps dans la philosophie de Foucault, Préface d’Etienne Balibar, L’Harmattan, La philosophie en commun, ISBN : 978-2-296-56327-8 • septembre 2011 • 252 pages. Book available in paperback or ebook Pdf of further details, cover and table of contents L’oeuvre de Foucault apparaît comme une succession d’études dispersées, plus que comme un …
Kevin Hetherington, Foucault, the museum and the diagram, The Sociological Review Volume 59, Issue 3, Article first published online: 1 SEP 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02016.x Abstract Foucault’s work on the museum is partial and fragmentary but provides an interesting opportunity through which to explore issues of power, subjectivity and imagination. Following a discussion of Deleuze’s reading of …
Key thinkers – Michel Foucault. Interview with Professor Stephen Shapiro, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Update August 2025: This podcast is no longer available. Stephen Shapiro’s webpage can be found here English Literature student Alexander Freer and PPE student Danny Smith interview Professor Stephen Shapiro on Foucault’s major theories as part of a …
Jörg Spieker, Foucault and Hobbes on Politics, Security, and War, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political August 2011 vol. 36 no. 3 187-199 https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375411418596 Abstract This article engages and seeks to develop Michel Foucault’s account of the nexus between modern politics, security, and war. Focusing on his 1976 lecture series Society Must Be Defended, the article considers …
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