Foucault News

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

Thamy Ayouch, Foucault pour la psychanalyse : vérité, véridiction, pratiques de soi, in SQUVERER Amos, LAUFER Laurie (dir.), Foucault et la psychanalyse. Quelques questions analytiques à Michel Foucault, Hermann, 2015 Full text on academia.edu « Foucault pour la psychanalyse » peut augurer autant, a contrario , de la condamnation virulente d’une vulgate psychanalytique instituant un « …

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Vichnar, D. ‘Territories Of Risk’ within ‘Tropological Space’: From Zero to 2666, and back (2015) Fear and Fantasy in a Global World, 81, pp. 55-73. DOI: 10.1163/9789004306042_005 Abstract The essay examines the subversive treatment of discourses of fear and anxiety on both local and global scales to which they are subjected within what Michel Foucault …

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Mennicken, Andrea and Miller, Peter (2014) Michel Foucault and the administering of lives. In: Adler, Paul S., du Gay, Paul, Morgan, Glen and Reed, Michael, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 11-38. ISBN 9780199671083 Further info Abstract This chapter suggests that Michel …

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Securing the social: Foucault and Social Networks | Tiziana Terranova – Academia.edu. From Foucault and the History of Our Present, edited by Sophie Fuggle, Yari Lanci, and Martina Tazzioli Extract What do we talk about when we talk about social networks? Is it an actu-ally existing social reality, a structuralist paradigm in the social sciences, …

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Jacques Bouveresse, Le désir, la vérité et la connaissance : la volonté de savoir et la volonté de vérité chez Foucault. In Claudine Tiercelin (dir.) La reconstruction de la raison. Dialogues avec Jacques Bouveresse, Collège de France, 2014. 1. Ce qui est connu doit-il être vrai ? 1Pour vous donner une idée du problème dont …

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Steven Ogden, Power: Michel Foucault, human identity and the church. In Phillip Wayne Tolliday, Heather Thomson (eds). Speaking Differently: Essays on Theological Anthropology, Canberra: Barton Books, 2013. Extract from chapter This chapter will use an aspect of the work of Michel Foucault (1926–1984) on power to explore this relationship and then, as a case study, …

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Jessica Whyte, Human Rights: Confronting Governments? Michel Foucault and the Right to Intervene Published later as chapter in New Critical Legal Thinking. Law and the Political, Edited By Matthew Stone, Illan Wall, Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck Law Press, 2012 The Writing & Society Research Centre and the Philosophy Research Initiative at UWS TIME: March 21, 2-4pm …

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Lucas, P. (2011). Foucault and Subjection. In: Ethics and Self-Knowledge. Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1560-8_10 Abstract A sceptical essentialist ethic of self-interpretation, founded on an obligation to avoid the mendacity involved in inducing deficient self-conceptions in others, looks to have significant normative force. But how might it apply outside …

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