Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault. Tome 1: De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, L’Harmattan, 2025 Au fond de la politique, qu’y a-t-il sinon la guerre ? Et cette guerre, comment la définir ? Telles sont les questions posées par Michel Foucault dans son cours au Collège de France, “Il faut …
Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation, Columbia University Press, 2025 Interview with the author in Columbia News, June 25, 2025 Interview with the author on the New Books Network, Jan 17, 2026 What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of …
Andreas Elpidorou, Josefa Ros Velasco, Eds. The History and Philosophy of Boredom, Routledge, 2025 Description From Lucretius’s horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination. Its story, unfolding through millennia, encompasses apathy, weariness, …
William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics. A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens, University of Chicago Press, 2024 A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and …
Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia. The Rhetoric of Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 About this book This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia—the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor—and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been …
Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2025 Link to digital edition Mark Pennington Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh on the New Books network Description This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from …
Jerome C. Wakefield, Foucault Versus Freud, Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality, Routledge, 2025 In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud’s influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault. …
Wahyudi Akmaliah, Review: Making the subject of Sunda, Inside Indonesia, 14 April 2025 What is ethnicity? Is it social construction or a part of an ancestral heritage? In what way is ethnicity significant in the Indonesian context? These are the questions Holy Rafika Dhona tries to answer in Subjek Sunda: Genealogi. Kelahiran, dan Kewilayahan. Specifically, he offers …
Stephen J. Ball , Jordi Collet-Sabé, Against School. Thinking Education Differently, Springer, 2025 About this book This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult …
PDF of flyer Online Book Launch, 6–9 May 2025 Join us for a four-day online panel series —each day featuring a single one-hour session—hosted by the team behind The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space & Politics, Vol I & II. Hosted by the co-editors of these two volumes— Dr Nikolina Bobic (University of Plymouth, …
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