Marcelo Hoffman, “Containments of the Unpredictable in Arendt and Foucault”, Telos 154 (Spring 2011). https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0311154141 Abstract This article takes as its principal provocation Giorgio Agamben’s claim that Hannah Arendt’s analyses of totalitarianism do not obtain a biopolitical perspective and that, conversely, Michel Foucault’s analyses of biopolitics fall short of adequately addressing totalitarian states, thereby leaving …
From Iran Book News Agency. New translations of Foucault made by Afshin Jahandideh and Nikou Sarkhosh will appear in Tehran International Book Fair, including “Philosophy Theater” IBNA: Afshin Jahandideh one of the translators told IBNA: “This volume consists of Foucault’s shorter notes, lectures and interviews made since 1966 on three main bases of discourse, power …
The proceedings of the workshop on “Foucault and Utilitarianism” have just been released as a special issue in the bilingual Revue d’études benthamiennes. Summary In the 1970s, with the publication of Discipline and Punish, and with the development of his concept of discipline, Foucault put Bentham back on the map of academic study. However, Bentham …
The Volume 37 Issue 3, Spring 2011, issue of Critical Inquiry features an important new translation of an interview with Foucault with Jean Le Bitoux and includes articles by Jean Le Bitoux and David Halperin about the fascinating publishing history of this interview. Jean Le Bitoux and Michel Foucault, “The Gay Science,” First complete translation …
Table Ronde Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, Cours au Collège de France (1970-1971), Seuil/Gallimard, Paris 2011 lundi 23 mai 2011 17h-20h Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 17, rue de la Sorbonne Salle Cavaillès (1er étage, esc. C) introduite par Daniel Defert, Université Paris VIII modérée par Arnold I. Davidson, University of Chicago avec …
Bhandaru, Deepa. “Biopolitical Color Lines Foucault and an Anti-Racist Democratic Politics” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, 2011-03-12 Abstract This paper asks how Foucault’s analysis of race and racism might render a different reading of “the problem of the color line,” and explores …
The Foucault Society, NYC — Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies “Governmentality and Vulnerable Populations” Wednesday, May 4, 2011 7:00-9:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409 New York, NY Speakers: Adrian Guta, MSW (U of Toronto): “Critically Reflecting on the Use of ‘Peer Researchers’ in Community-Based Participatory Research” Kevin Jobe (Stony Brook …
Veronique Voruz, Politics in Foucault’s later work: A philosophy of truth; or reformism in question, Theoretical Criminology March 4, 2011 vol. 15 no. 1, 47-65 https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480610380229 Abstract Drawing on Foucault’s late seminars this article contrasts political reformism, favoured in the English-speaking tradition of ‘Foucauldian’ criminology, with Foucault’s own ‘return’ to philosophy. Of late, given the …
Special Issue on Foucault and International Law 2012 marks Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL)’s 25th anniversary. Added 24 August 2012. Now published LJIL celebrates this Silver Jubilee with several initiatives, including a new prize. One of the highlights of LJIL volume 25 will be the special issue on Foucault and International Law. The Leiden …
Timothy O’Leary and Christopher Falzon (eds.), Foucault and Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 259pp, ISBN 9781405189606. Description Foucault and Philosophy presents a collection of essays from leading international philosophers and Foucault scholars that explore Foucault’s work as a philosopher in relation to philosophers who were important to him and in the context of important themes and problems …
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