Michel Foucault, Madness, Language, Literature Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel Translated by Robert Bononno The University of Chicago Press, 2023 Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less …
Refsum, C. Event: Or, How Foucault Used Baudelaire to Enlighten Kant In Bruce Barnhart, Marit Grøtta (eds) Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature, (2022) pp. 15-30. DOI: 10.4324/9781003328599-3 Abstract This chapter explores the notion of the event through a discussion of Michel Foucault’s critical view of the enlightenment as an …
Colapietro, V. Quotidian Tasks: Habits, Routines, and Rituals (2022) Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 36 (4), pp. 491-516. DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.36.4.0491 Abstract The author frames his exploration in terms of Michel Foucault’s distinction between the practice of emancipation in the strict sense and practices of freedom. He proposes to treat rituals of attention as examples of practices …
Simons, M. “Changing” one’s mind: Historical epistemology as normative psychology (2023) Metaphilosophy DOI: 10.1111/meta.12616 Abstract This article argues that historical epistemology offers the history of philosophy and science more than a mere tool to write the history of concepts. It does this, first of all, by rereading historical epistemology through Michel Foucault’s “techniques of the …
Weiskopf, R. Dis/organising visibilities: Governmentalisation and counter-transparency (2023) Organization, 30 (2), pp. 326-344. DOI: 10.1177/1350508421995751 Abstract This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of ‘mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth’ and critical practices that come from below in a movement of ‘not being governed like …
Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life – An Ancient Model, a Contemporary Approach See Seminar Program “Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, a Contemporary Approach” is an Exploratory Project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Context Over the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as …
Call for Papers Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault: A Comparison of their Historical Methodologies The Journal of the Philosophy of History Click on the Call for papers menu item The Journal of the Philosophy of History plans a special issue to explore Arendt and Foucault’s approaches to historical method (broadly conceived) and intellectual history, and, …
Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction and critical apparatus by Daniele Lorenzini & Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, The University of Chicago Press Forthcoming late 2023, early 2024 This volume is part of The Chicago Foucault Project Description (adapted from …
Stephen J. Ball, The Enemies of Truth (novel). Independently published, March 2023 Staverley is in Paris. He is teaching, walking the city and searching for a missing student. Back in Watermouth his colleagues are being blackmailed and threatened. In both places there are mysteries to be solved and Staverley cannot stop himself from getting involved. …
Special Issue: Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability, March 2023 Open access Kaspar Villadsen (Copenhagen Business School) and Johannes Lundberg (Århus University) have guest-edited a special issue of the journal Sustainability with the title: “Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability”. The Special Issue eplores themes like the ESG discourse, Green Transition, CSR, …
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