Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen. Or, My Life in Theory, Penguin Random House, 2026 Review by Dayna Tortorici, New York Times, 23 July 2026 Description When Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French authors. This was French …
Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault. The Poitiers Years, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023 Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Even Foucault’s biographers have neglected this period, preferring instead to start the story when the future philosopher arrives in Paris. Becoming …
Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière. Retour sur un triple meurtre en 1835, Gallimard 2026. Le 3 juin 1835, un jeune paysan normand, Pierre Rivière, égorge sa mère, sa sœur et son frère avant de s’enfuir. Arrêté le mois suivant, il rédige, dans l’attente de son jugement, un Mémoire d’une cinquantaine de feuillets pour expliquer son …
Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind, Published July 29, 2026 by Routledge Description Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has had a transformative effect on the study of the humanities and social sciences. His engagement with topics such as truth, power, and language continues …
Pascal Engel, Foucault et les normes du savoir, Eliott éditions, 2024 L’œuvre de Michel Foucault est une réflexion sur les normes. C’est de ses conceptions des normes du savoir que traite principalement ce livre, et de son projet d’une généalogie et d’une histoire de la vérité. Foucault renverse les positions classiques : au lieu de …
Serge Audier, Le Néolibéralisme, Foucault et nous, Le Bord de l’eau, Carignan-de-Bordeaux, 2026 Le cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France sur la « naissance de la biopolitique » s’est imposé comme une référence fondamentale pour toute réflexion sur le néolibéralisme dans ses différentes dimensions – théorique, historique, sociologique, etc. Beaucoup y ont vu …
Eli B. Lichtenstein, Partisan Genealogy. Foucault’s Critique of Penal Power, SUNY Press, November 2026 Description Presents a partisan model of genealogy by reinterpreting Foucault in the context of anti-prison struggles and his engagement with Marxism. Michel Foucault has exerted enormous influence on our understanding of power and penal systems, above all with his work Discipline …
Jon Douglas Solomon, Foucault and Genocide. A Genealogy of the Fantasy of the West, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 About this book Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to aesthetic ideology. Fueled by the settler colonial imaginary, the logic of “speciation” inevitably …
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy. Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, University of Chicago Press, 2026. A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows that what looks timeless …
Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry, Minor Compositions, 2026 Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated the boundaries of politics, psychiatry, and collective life. CERFI – the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and …
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