Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire and the Hermeneutics of Thoughts: Foucault’s Reading of Augustine and Cassian in Confessions of the Flesh Herman Westerink Philosophy From …
Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation by Richard Lynch. Richard Lynch has updated his very valuable bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation. You can find the bibliography and associated material on this page on Foucault News Daniele Lorenzini will be updating the Bibliography from 2023 onwards.
Sławomir Kozioł, Futures of the Human Subject. Technical Mediation, Foucault and Science Fiction, Routledge, 2022 Book Description Futures of the Human Subject focuses on the representation of the effects of technology use on human subjectivity in several recent near-future science fiction novels. Sharing the idea that human subjects are constructed in the world in which …
Michael C. Behrent (2022) A Case for the Young Foucault, Critical Review, DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2152253 ABSTRACT Between 1949 and 1961 (or, arguably, 1966), three interconnected dimensions of Foucault’s early thought emerged. First, the young Foucault offered a Hegelian perspective on Kant’s notion of the transcendental. The a priori conditions of thought, Foucault suggested, both shape and …
Piasentier, M. Foucault, Sellars, and the “conditions of possibility” of science (2022) Philosophy and Social Criticism DOI: 10.1177/01914537221131944 Abstract Foucault and Sellars are representatives of conflicting philosophical traditions: whereas Foucault famously insisted that “power is everywhere,” Sellars proposed the well-known scientia mensura dictum. The tension between the two perspectives seems to be so strong that …
Friedman, A.C., Mills, J.P., Gearity, B. Natural science and culture grapple on the mat: an autoethnography of a wrestler’s rapid weight loss (2022) Sports Coaching Review DOI: 10.1080/21640629.2022.2111491 Abstract Jean-Francois Lyotard’s iconic essay, The Post-modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1978) detailed the shifting nature of knowledge in post-industrial society that meant sciences had to …
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Gaughwin, M. “The Apple Way”: Foucault, Design, Consumerism, and the Shaping of Apple Subjects (2022) Design and Culture DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2022.2122115 Abstract The contribution Michel Foucault’s thoughts on power, in particular his ideas of subjectivity, freedom, and action, might have to the study of design’s ontological shaping of people is an emerging field of inquiry in …
Herzog, B., Lance Porfillio, A. Talking with racists: insights from discourse and communication studies on the containment of far-right movements (2022) Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9 (1) DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01406-y Abstract The rise of the far right is threatening the antifascist consensus that helped rebuild Europe and the world following World War II. Discourse studies …
Magwa, L., Mohangi, K. Using theoretical frameworks to analyze democratic student–teacher engagement and autonomous learning for academic achievement in Zimbabwe (2022) Frontiers in Education, 7, art. no. 925478 DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.925478 Abstract Positive student–teacher engagement that fosters independent and supported learning is the fulcrum for academic success. This paper investigates stakeholder opinions on the intrinsic importance …
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