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

materiali foucaultiani, volume X, numero 19-20 (gennaio-dicembre 2021) Open access SOMMARIO L’ambiente del governo. Biopolitica ed ecologia politica a cura di Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Introduzione. La biopolitica e il clima della storia (pp. 5-18) Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Gouvernementalité et écologie (pp. 19-44) Emanuele Leonardi, Luigi Pellizzoni L’impasse de l’antinaturalisme …

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Bourse de recherche internationale Imec/Centre Michel Foucault 2024 Lire l’appel sur le site du Centre Michel Foucault L’IMEC et le Centre Michel Foucault lancent un appel à chercheur pour l’attribution de la troisième Bourse IMEC/Centre Michel Foucault L’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) préserve et met en valeur une collection exceptionnelle d’archives dédiée à l’histoire …

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Ottavio Marzocca, Il virus della biopolitica: forme e mutazioni, Edizioni Efesto (2023) La pandemia ha confermato che la biopolitica è una forma essenziale della politica dominante. Essa tuttavia non ne è il “paradigma”, ma è parte di un insieme di tecniche di governo, in cui il primato della razionalità economica s’intreccia con la pervasività delle …

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil. Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity, University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming February 2024 Philosopher Michel Foucault’s cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known are the five trips he took to Brazil between 1965 and 1976. Although a coup …

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A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott’s ‘Telling Silence’ (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis), Acid Horizon podcast, 9 October 2023. Charles E. Scott, Telling Silence. Thresholds to No Where in Ordinary Experiences, SUNY Press, November 2023. Description In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in …

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Eli B. Lichtenstein (2023) “Explanation and evaluation in Foucault’s genealogy of morality,” European Journal of Philosophy 31, no. 3, 731-747, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12809 Abstract: Philosophers have cataloged a range of genealogical methods by which different sorts of normative conclusions can be established. Although such methods provide diverging ways of pursuing genealogical inquiry, they typically converge in …

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Michel Foucault, La legge del pudore, a cura di Caro Gervasi e Lorenzo Petrachi, Orthotes Editrice, Napoli-Salerno 2023, 160 pp., 16 euro (collana: Teoria sociale) Questa raccolta presenta per la prima volta la conversazione radiofonica tra Michel Foucault, Jean Danet e Guy Hocquenghem nota con il titolo La loi de la pudeur inquadrandola nell’insieme di …

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Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures. A Transnational Critical Encounter. Presented and introduced by John Rachmann, Routledge, Forthcoming 2024. This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relevance for us today. In these forgotten …

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Suijker, C.A. Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims (2023) Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy DOI: 10.1007/s11019-023-10170-y Abstract Some of Michel Foucault’s work focusses on an archeological and genealogical analysis of certain aspects of the medical episteme, such as ‘Madness and Civilization’ (1964/2001), ‘The Birth of the Clinic’ (1973) and ‘The History of Sexuality’ (1978/2020a). These …

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Václav Rut (2023) Václav Havel’s Search for Emancipatory Governmentality, Critical Horizons, DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2262342 ABSTRACT This paper deals with the political philosophy of Václav Havel, mainly its relation to ethics and what Michel Foucault called governmentality. Besides using his analytical framework, Foucault’s politics are engaged with to highlight similar trajectories of two intellectuals dealing with related …

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