Foucault News

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

Frank Welz, ‘Lost in Agency? Kant, Foucault and the Task of Sociology’ Paper delivered at the Social Agency. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of the 21st Century Humanist Sociology Conference, Wrocław, Poland, on 20-22 October 2010 Abstract No sociology without agency: Without the discovery of social agency there would not be any sociology. (1) If anything …

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Paul Patton, ‘Activism, Philosophy and Actuality in Deleuze and Foucault’ Deleuze Studies, Dec 2010, Vol. 4, No. supplement : pp. 84-103 https://www.jstor.org/stable/45331436 Abstract Deleuze and Foucault shared a period of political activism and both drew connections between their activism and their respective approaches to philosophy. However, despite their shared political commitments and praise of each …

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These cards from the Unemployed Philosophers Guild have been around for a while – but a reminder just before Christmas might come in handy. Michel Foucault Card A Michel Foucault card for your own personal discourse! Each card comes with an envelope and a sticker sheet filled with quotes from Foucault plus traditional messages like …

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A workshop on Foucault and Habermas is being convened in the context of the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, to be held between 31 August and 2 September 2011 at the University of Manchester. Papers are invited on any aspect of the social and political thought of Foucault, Habermas, the Foucault/Habermas debate and the Habermas/Rawls …

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Edited Essay Collection 2nd call for Abstracts – Final Deadline Jan. 15, 2011 Drawing from Foucault’s notion of the ‘political technology of the body’ and the ‘spectacle of the scaffold’, the collection looks to explore sovereign power and control over the body through a consideration of the cinema’s, arguable, co-option of the state’s political-military-corporate aims …

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CFP: The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in English Location: France Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-12-15 The CRILA short story research group (JE2536) of the Université d’Angers, France, will be hosting an international conference in collaboration with Edge Hill University, U.K. on “The Figure of the Author in the Short Story in …

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Et si Foucault n’avait pas tort? Du 16 décembre 2010 au 6 janvier 2011 de 18h à 20h Séminaire organisé par l’Institut de Recherches Philosophiques de Lyon (IRPhiL). Séminaire Foucault organisé du 16 septembre 2010 au 6 janvier 2011, sous la direction de Catherine Dekeuwer. Peut-on donner aujourd’hui raison aux thèses de Michel Foucault concernant …

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SEMINAIRE FOUCAULT animé par Jean-François Braunstein Les séances ont lieu de 10 h 30 à 12 h 30 à l’UFR de philosophie de la Sorbonne, escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Programme 2010-2011 Samedi 20 novembre 2010 Jean-François Braunstein (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, PhiCo/EXeCO) Foucault et l’histoire des sciences Samedi 18 …

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