Foucault News

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

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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