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

Gildersleeve, Matthew, Crowden, Andrew. Philosophy of Place. Finding Place and Self in the World (New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2022 Summary This book discusses the philosophy of place and the implications for understanding ourselves authentically. It sets out to investigate this by providing a review of the phenomenological and humanistic views of place as background …

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FOUCAULT(S) | Jean-François Braunstein, Daniele Lorenzini, Ariane Revel, et al. Éditions de la Sorbonne (2022) TABLE DES MATIÈRES Jean-François Braunstein, Daniele Lorenzini, Ariane Revel et al. Introduction Première partie. Les puissances du langage Étienne Balibar Pensée du dehors ? Foucault avec Blanchot Dominique Lecourt Le sadisme de Michel Foucault Arianna Sforzini Pouvoir risible, pouvoir du …

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Genealogía, crítica y ensayo. Aportes para la historia del presente Compiladoras: Paula Lucía Aguilar, Ana Grondona y Victoria Haidar. Textos de : Mitchell Dean, David Garland, William Walters, Victoria Haidar, Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, Gary Wilder, Diego Giller, María Pia López, Timothy Mitchell, Ana Grondona Acompañan: Ana Blanco (IIGG-FSOC-UBA), Luciano Nosetto (IIGG-FSOC-UBA) Natalia Romé …

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Pierre Nora : ses années Gallimard, Par Marie Bellan Les Echos, Publié le 23 sept. 2022 Dans son dernier ouvrage à caractère autobiographique, l’historien Pierre Nora revient sur ses années d’universitaire et d’éditeur chez Gallimard, son amitié avec les auteurs qu’il a promus et la gestation, entre autres, de son grand oeuvre : « Les …

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Elisabetta Basso, Young Foucault. The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955 Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough. Columbia University Press, 2022 In the 1950s, long before his ascent to international renown, Michel Foucault published a scant few works. His early writings on psychology, psychopathology, and anthropology have been dismissed …

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Roberto Esposito, Institution Translated by Zakiya Hanafi, Polity Press, 2022. Offer Details: To get 20% off this title, go to http://www.politybooks.com and use code PPBK1 at checkout. Applies to paperback edition only. Offer expires 31 December 2022. The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very …

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Open HistoryThe Archaeology of Retrocomputing KULTURVERLAG KADMOS 2021 New Books network, Podcast, Sep 16, 2022 Today I talked to Stefan Höltgen about his book Open History: The Archaeology of Retrocomputing (Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2021). How can historical computers be described properly from the viewpoint of computer science? By considering media archaeology’s theory of operative and thus …

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Editor: Perlego, an ebook library launched in 2016, offers a paid subscription service to access a variety of academic and professional ebooks. They have a very substantial collection of currently 431 books relating to Foucault, mainly in English, but also in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. The collection also includes a selection of works …

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The Ethics of Richard Rorty. Moral Communities, Self-Transformation, and Imagination Edited By Susan Dieleman, David E. McClean, Paul Showler, Routledge, 2022 Book Description This book contains diverse and critical reflections on Richard Rorty’s contributions to ethics, an aspect of his thought that has been relatively neglected. Together, they demonstrate that Rorty offers a compelling and …

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Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender. The Medical History of a Transformative Idea, Chicago University Press, 2022 Interview (podcast) with the author on the New Books network An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without “gender” is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center …

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