Foucault News

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

Hodges BD, Martimianakis MA, McNaughton N, Whitehead C. Medical education… meet Michel Foucault. Medical Education. 2014 Jun;48(6):563-71. doi: 10.1111/medu.12411. PMID: 24807433. Abstract Context: There have been repeated calls for the greater use of conceptual frameworks and of theory in medical education. Although it is familiar to few medical educators, Michel Foucault’s work is a helpful theoretical …

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Faubion, James. “Michel Foucault”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Jan. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michel-Foucault. Education and career The son and grandson of a physician, Michel Foucault was born to a solidly bourgeois family. He resisted what he regarded as the provincialism of his upbringing and his native country, and his career was marked by frequent sojourns abroad. A distinguished …

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David McGrogan, A Foucauldian Defense of Liberalism, Law & Liberty, March 27 2023 We should not settle for the nominal freedom of a relentlessly micromanaged society. There is a strong case to be made that Michel Foucault was the most important and influential thinker of the second half of the twentieth century. He was not …

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Daniele Lorenzini, Philosophy Colloquium: Genealogy as a Practice of Truth: Nietzsche, Foucault, Fanon Presented by the Philosophy Department at The New School for Social Research. Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6:00PM to 8:00PM (EDT) 6 E 16th St Wolff Conference Room/D1103 The New School 66 West 12th Street New York, NY 10011 This paper has two …

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Schmidgen, Henning, et al. “From the Archive to the Computer: Michel Foucault and the Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 7, no. 4, Mar. 2023, doi:10.22148/001c.55795. Abstract Michel Foucault famously introduced the method of “discourse analysis” in the humanities, especially in historiography. In his Archaeology of Knowledge, originally published in 1969, in particular, Foucault …

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Jean-François Bert, Jérôme Lamy (dir.), Michel Foucault : un héritage critique, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2014, 416 p., ISBN : 9782271081469. Updated 2023. Now available in Open Edition Books BERT, Jean-François (dir.) ; LAMY, Jérôme (dir.). Michel Foucault, un héritage critique. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Paris : CNRS Éditions, 2014 ( Disponible sur Internet : http://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/50867. ISBN : …

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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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