Foucault News

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

Elly Tams/Quiet Riot Girl, Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. The Girl Who Wasn’t There Novel for download from author’s site. Published: June 29, 2011 Category: Fiction » Literature » Erotica Short Description Imagine if the great, French, homosexual philosopher, Michel Foucault, had in fact had a daughter… This is the story of the girl who wasn’t …

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Ronald E. Butchart, What’s Foucault Got to Do with It? History, Theory, and Becoming Subjected, History of Education Quarterly, Issue 2, Volume 51, May 2011, pages 239–246. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2011.00333.x Extract The three essays before us constitute an indictment of the field of the history of education for its neglect of theory. Read linearly, from the Introduction …

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Juritzen TI, Grimen H, Heggen K., ‘Protecting vulnerable research participants: A Foucault-inspired analysis of ethics committees’. Nursing Ethics. Jun 6 2011 https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330114038 Abstract History has demonstrated the necessity of protecting research participants. Research ethics are based on a concept of asymmetry of power, viewing the researcher as powerful and potentially dangerous and establishing ethics committees …

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Thomas Biebricher, The practices of theorists: Habermas and Foucault as public intellectuals Philosophy Social Criticism, June 14 2011 https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453711400244 Abstract The scholarly works of Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault have been subject to ongoing scrutiny for a number of decades. However, less attention has been given to their activities as public intellectuals and the relation …

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From the Philosophy’s Other blog Taylor, Dianna, ed. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts. Chesham: Acumen, 2011. Review by Cynthia Coe Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century’s most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, …

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7 PROPOS DU SEPTIÈME ANGE D’après Michel Foucault Création collective de Bruno Boulzaguet Jeu : Bruno Boulzaguet Percussions : Jean Christophe Feldhandler Lumières : Olivier Oudiou. Penseur excentrique, écrivain prophétique et linguiste « juché au point extrême du délire » (Selon Michel Foucault), Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919) était animé d’une confiance absolue dans les raisonnements les …

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