Foucault News

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

Lucie Kim-Chi Mercier, Zwischen Formalismus und Geschichte: Serres und Foucault in Clermont-Ferrand, In: Michel Serres Das vielfältige Denken, Eds Reinhold Clausjürgens and Kurt Röttgers, Brill, 2020, Pages: 193–211 DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846765142_013 First paragraph In diesem Beitrag möchte ich zwei Autoren einander annähern, die wir vielleicht nicht gewohnt sind, zusammen zu lesen: Michel Serres und Michel Foucault. …

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Miguel Vatter, Care of the Self and the Invention of Legitimate Government. Foucault and Strauss on Platonic Political Philosophy. In Jeffrey A. Bernstein and Jade Larissa Schiff, eds. Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought : Reading Strauss Outside the Lines. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. This chapter offers an interpretation of Michel Foucault’s …

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Iguchi, Y., Rashid, A., Afiqah, S.N. Female Genital Cutting and the “Medical Gaze” in Southeast Asia, In Kyoko Nakamura, Kaori Miyachi, Yukio Miyawaki, Makiko Toda (eds) Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Global Zero Tolerance Policy and Diverse Responses from African and Asian Local Communities, Springer (2023), pp. 127-140. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6723-8_9 Open access Abstract This article discusses female …

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Isike, C. Foucault’s Panopticon as a Theoretical Frame for Understanding the Big Brother Reality Show in Christopher Isike, Olusola Ogunnubi, Ogochukwu Ukwueze (Eds). Big Brother Naija and Popular Culture in Nigeria: A Critique of the Country’s Cultural and Economic Diplomacy, pp. 17-30. Palgrave Macmillan (2023) DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-8110-4_2 Abstract The idea of the Panopticon concept presents …

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Niesche, R. (2022). The Archaeology of Educational Leadership as an Enunciative Field. In: English, F.W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99097-8_4 Abstract This chapter explores the notions of archaeology and discourse as central aspects of Michel Foucault’s method and considers how these concepts can be used to …

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Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, Aurélie, ‘Foucault and Phenomenology, a Tense and Complex Relationship: From Anti-Phenomenology to Post-Phenomenology’, in François-Xavier de Vaujany, Jeremy Aroles, and Mar Pérezts (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies, Oxford Handbooks (2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 26 Jan. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192865755.013.13 Abstract In line with observers that have recently reconsidered the relationship between …

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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 …

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Grinberg, S. Between Responsibility and “Responsibilization”: The Everyday Making of School in Buenos Aires Slums In S. Nombuso Dlamini, Angela Stienen (Eds.), Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City Protesting as Public Pedagogy, Routledge, 2022 Abstract On the basis of field work conducted in the periphery of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, this chapter discusses some …

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Shmidt, V. (2023). Vitalist Arguments in the Struggle for Human (Im)Perfection: The Debate Between Biologists and Theologians in the 1960s–1980s. In: Donohue, C., Wolfe, C.T. (eds) Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_12 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_12 Open access Abstract …

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Määttä, S.K. Discourse and ideology in French thought until Foucault and Pecheux. In Määttä, Simo K. and Hall, Marika K. Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513602 DOI: 10.1515/9781501513602-002 Abstract Since many, if not most, of the early sources of critical approaches to discourse and ideology come from France, the …

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