Foucault News

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

Colóquio Internacional Kant 22 de agosto de 2011 Auditório 106 IFCS/UFRJ Brasil 11:00 – Roberto Nigro – (Institut für Theorie, Zürcher Hochshule der Künst) – La critique de l’anthropologie philosophique comme enjeu majeur pour repenser le politique (comunicação com tradução simultânea) 12:00 – Almoço 14:00 – Daniel Omar Perez – (PUC-PR) – Michel Foucault como …

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John Rapko (2011) ‘Enchantment and Malaise’: Michel Foucault on Manet. Review of Michel Foucault’s Manet and the Object of Painting, Artcritical. The Online magazine of arts and ideas, Sunday 31st July 2011. In 1967 Michel Foucault obtained a contract for a book on Manet, tentatively titled La Noir et la Surface. There’s no evidence to …

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Gavin Kendall, Michel Foucault, Oxford bibliographies online, 27 July 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756384-0021 The introduction and general overviews section of this is available for free. The rest needs to be purchased or accessed via an institution. Contents Introduction General Overviews Biographies Selected Major Works Lectures Interviews and Essays Bibliographies Journals Knowledge and Discourse Madness and Mental Illness …

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Anthony Merino, Politics of Perception: Post-Foucauldian Ceramics [Kindle Edition] Tony Dubis-Merino (Illustrator), Pam Luke (Editor) , 2011 Description Whether due to his insight or influence, Foucault’s mixture of cynicism, paranoia and obsession with power mirrors our current cultural zeitgeist. His thoughts resonate on both thin edges of the American political thought. On the left, consider …

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Maurizio Meloni, “Naturalism as an Ontology of Ourselves”,Telos 155 (Summer 2011). https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0611155151 Abstract Scientific naturalism, according to Jürgen Habermas, represents one of the “two countervailing trends that mark the intellectual tenor of our age,” the other being religious worldviews. Using Foucault’s distinction between philosophy as an “analytic of truth” and philosophy as an “ontology of …

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Call for papers The twelfth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle Canisius College Buffalo, NY, USA March 30-April 1, 2012 Papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, and studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking, are all welcome. We will aim for a diversity of topics and perspectives in the program selection. Please send a …

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Stuart Elden, Power, Nietzsche and the Greeks: Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, Originally published on the now defunct Berfrois site. The most recently published lecture course from Michel Foucault’s time at the Collège de France is his first, entitled ‘La Volonté de Savoir’—the will to know or the will to knowledge. To avoid …

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Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Foucault with Habermas: Towards a complementary critical reading of modernity, Revista Enfoques, Vol. IX, no. 14, 2011, pp. 139-151 https://doi.org/10.60728/a5zww823 ABSTRACT This essay examines Foucault’s and Habermas’s critical project in order to show their complementary character. In the examination of the main aspects of their oeuvres, it is argued, contrary to what …

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Anne Schwan, Stephen Shapiro, How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, London: Pluto Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780745329819 Description Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro’s excellent …

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Olli Pyyhtinen, Sakari Tamminen, We have never been only human: Foucault and Latour on the question of the anthropos, Anthropological Theory, Vol. 11, No. 2. (1 June 2011), pp. 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499611407398 Abstract Today, the impact of the work of both Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour is increasingly evident in anthropology, most notably in the subfields …

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