Foucault News

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

Juignet, Patrick. Michel Foucault et le concept d’épistémè. Philosophie, science et société. 2015. https://philosciences.com/10 L’œuvre de Michel Foucault est discontinue. Nous nous intéresserons ici à la période que l’on peut approximativement situer entre 1965 et 1977, période pendant laquelle il a développé et utilisé le concept d’épistémè. Ce concept a eu une carrière limitée ; …

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Ákos Cseke, La vie pour la vérité. Etudes sur le dernier Foucault, Collection : Ouverture Philosophique, L’Harmattan, 2023 La transcription des derniers cours de Michel Foucault donnés au Collège de France a sans doute bouleversé notre vision de sa pensée. Comment interpréter le changement de style et de contenu inhérent à ses œuvres finales ? …

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Roberto Nigro, Antonio Negri. Une philosophie de la subversion (Éditions Amsterdam, 2023) « Le nouveau marxisme de Negri est un rempart contre les dérives post-modernes, contre l’idée d’une fin de l’histoire et de la lutte des classes. Il s’oppose à la représentation de la domination capitaliste comme totale et absolue. » Cet ouvrage est la …

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Andrey Gordienko, The Epistemic State of Exception, The Philosophical Salon, 3 April 2023 Agamben’s “Configuration of Facts” and Foucault’s “Regime of Truth” In “The Central Bankers’ Long COVID,” Fabio Vighi observes that the contemporary paradigm of government by crisis fosters a rhetoric of exclusion, which neutralizes dissensus and positions the official narrative of emergency capitalism …

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Tauzer, J., CSR and the Hermeneutical Renovation of Foucault’s Toolbox (2023) Sustainability (Switzerland), 15 (5), art. no. 4682, . DOI: 10.3390/su15054682 Abstract This article aims to examine Foucault’s conceptual toolbox (methodology, conceptual tools, and conceptual meta-tools) in relation to the socio-historical analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and of the corporation. The article has a …

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Brosnan, C., Tickner, C., Davies, K., Heinsch, M., Steel, A., Vuolanto, P. The salutogenic gaze: Theorising the practitioner role in complementary and alternative medicine consultations (2023) Sociology of Health and Illness. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13629 Abstract Research on why people use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) shows clients value the CAM consultation, where they feel listened to …

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Salmenkari, T., Aldawoodi, S. Papers of the Paperless: Governmentality, Technologies of Freedom, and the Production of Asylum-Seeker Identities (2023) International Migration Review. DOI: 10.1177/01979183231154502 Abstract Refugees become asylum-seekers not only because the receiving country gives them the bureaucratic-legal status but also because they start to identify with the status. This article examines how refugees learn …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
I discuss my recent book The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2023) on the New Books Network with Dave O’Brien (audio) Dave has now generously discussed all the books in this series: Foucault’s Last Decade, 21 September 2016 Foucault: The Birth of Power, 6 November 2017 The Early Foucault, 11 February…

Di Pierro, M. (2022). Archaeology or interpretation: Michel Foucault and Claude Lefort. Constellations, 29, 434– 446. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12606 INTRODUCTION: LA POLITIQUE AND LE POLITIQUE On February 2, 1983, during his lecture at Collège de France, Michel Foucault criticizes the concept of the political (le politique). According to Foucault, the shift from politics (la politique) to the …

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