Foucault News

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

Sciullo, Nick J., Amos Lee’s ‘Street Corner Preacher’ Through Michel Foucault’s Critique of Scientific Knowledge: A Critique of Legal Knowledge (March 15, 2011). Critical Legal Studies Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1685997 Abstract This article will demonstrate that although students of the law, legal scholars, and practitioners rely on a relatively …

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Picard, E. Kezia (2010) A radical relational agency: Foucault, complexity theory and environmental resistances. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Page with link to pdf of thesis Abstract The aim of this thesis is to examine a radical relational agency, applied to contemporary environmental resistances, that incorporates both the thought of Michel Foucault and complexity theory. …

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Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present: A Symposium Bologna, Italy, March 3-4, 2011. Hosted by the University of Bologna Funded by the Finnish Academy Description Neoliberalism is superficially understood as a theory of political economic practices proposing that human well-being can best be advanced by the development of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework …

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Paul Smeyers and Yusef Waghid, ‘Cosmopolitanism in Relation to the Self and the Other: From Michel Foucault to Stanley Cavell’, Educational Theory, Volume 60 Number 4 2010, pp. 449-467 Download pdf of article Abstract Educators, not to mention philosophers of education, find themselves in a difficult position nowadays. They are confronted with problems such as …

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James Wong, ‘Foucault and Autonomy’, ARSP. Archiv. für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, vol. 96, no3, 2010, pp. 277-290. Other details Abstract In this paper, I argue against Mark Bevir’s contention that Foucault is committed to reject autonomy but affirms agency. I argue that Bevir’s claim is extravagant, that (a) Foucault need not reject autonomy, and (b) …

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Letting Go of Neo-Liberalism (with some help from Michel Foucault) Faculty seminar Professor Terry Flew Professor of Media and Communication, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 12pm-2pm Wednesday 24th November 2010 Z2-315 CI Precinct QUT Kelvin Grove ABSTRACT Neo-liberalism has become one of the boom concepts of our time. From its original …

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From the Portail Michel Foucault Forum Internacional de Estudos Foucauldianos O cristianismo em Michel Foucault 25/11/10 – 26/11/10 UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA Centro de Comunicação e Expressão Auditório Henrique Fontes O objetivo do evento é examinar de que maneira e de que cristianismo trata Michel Foucault, desde a publicação dos três volumes de História …

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From the Portail Michel Foucault Congreso “Michel Foucault un pensador poliédrico” en el MUVIM de Valencia. El 15, 16 y 17 de noviembre. MuVim, Museu Valencià de la Il.lustració i de la Modernitat. Calle Quevedo, 10 – 46001 València. Tel.:963 883 730. Más inf.: http://www.muvim.es Michel Foucault un pensador poliédrico. Su pensamiento no es un …

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