Foucault News

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

Alain Beaulieu, ‘Towards a liberal Utopia: The connection between Foucault’s reporting on the Iranian Revolution and the ethical turn’, Philosophy Social Criticism September 2010, vol. 36 no. 7, 801-818 https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453710372065 Abstract The shift in Foucault’s work from genealogy to ethics finds consensus among Foucault scholars. However, the motivations behind this transition remain either misunderstood or …

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Foucault, the Family & Politics Friday, 12 November 2010 Location: King’s College, Keynes Hall Registration for this conference is free. Conveners Robbie Duschinsky (Sociology, University of Cambridge) Dr Jude Browne (Gender Studies, University of Cambridge) Dr Deborah Thom (History, University of Cambridge) Foucault writes of how the internal power-dynamics of the family interact with the …

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Tell, Dave. “Rhetoric and Power: An Inquiry into Foucault’s Critique of Confession.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 43.2 (Spring 2010): 95-117. Lead Article. https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.43.2.0095 Abstract In the 1980s Foucault relentlessly distinguished between two discursive practices: the Christian confession and the ancient technologies of the self. This distinction provides a valuable opportunity to study the role of rhetoric …

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The proceedings of the Congresso Nacional de Psicanálise, Direito e Literatura: estética da existência (the National Congress of Psychoanalysis, Law and Literature: aesthetics of existence) convened by Fábio Belo in Brazil in 2009 have just been published. August 2025. No working links available Introduction in Portuguese “Êthopoien, quer dizer: fazer o êthos, produzir o êthos, …

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