Michel Foucault, Les hermaphrodites Édition d’Henri-Paul Fruchaud et Arianna Sforzini. Préface d’Arianna Sforzini, postface d’Éric Fassin Collection Bibliothèque des Histoires. Gallimard 2025 En 1978, Michel Foucault annonce un volume de son Histoire de la sexualité « consacré aux hermaphrodites ». Avec la réorientation de son enquête vers l’Antiquité, il y a renoncé. Demeure dans ses …
Palti Elias J. Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. The Seeley Lectures. Cambridge University Press; 2024 How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. …
Leo McCann et al eds, Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies, Edward Elgar, 2025. [Ed: Several chapters cite Foucault] This expansive Encyclopedia provides a detailed overview of Critical Management Studies (CMS). This exciting and iconoclastic area of research and scholarship has had a major impact on the academic field of business and management studies, opening …
Vincent Pak, Queer Correctives. Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore, Bloomsbury Press, 2025 Description Queer Correctives explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual. In Singapore, Christian discourses …
Arnault Skornicki, Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 Based on the French La grande Soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales (2016). About this book This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s political thought. Far from setting aside the question of the State to focus on the …
Michel Foucault. Edited by Elisabetta Basso. Binswanger and Existential Analysis General Editor: François Ewald. English Series Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough. Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Columbia University Press, 2025. In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis—Daseinsanalyse—developed by the Swiss …
Tuomo Tiisala, Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism, Routledge, 2024 Open access Description This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy and …
Maddalena Cerrato, Michel Foucault’s Practical Philosophy. A Critique of Subjectivation Processes, SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought, De Gruyter Brill, 2025 Interview with author on New Books site, 2 September 2025 About this book Offers a wholistic approach to Michel Foucault’s thought introducing the idea of practical philosophy as an original interpretative framework. Michel Foucault’s …
Frank Fischer, Critical Policy Inquiry. Interpreting Knowledge and Arguments. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024 Presenting a critical approach to the study of public policy and policy analysis, this book offers a postpositivist foundation that challenges empiricist and technocratic approaches to policy studies. Critical Policy Inquiry draws on Jürgen Habermas’s work on communicative action and deliberation, Michel …
Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (Eds) Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics. Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential philosophical theories of the late 20th and early 21st …
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