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

An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon Omar Sabbagh on a biography of Jacques Derrida. Philosophy Now, 2021 Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida, Verso Books, 2020, 320 pages, £11.99 hb, ISBN 978-1788732802 Deciding to write a biog raphy of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), even a predominantly intellectual …

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Daniel Verginelli Galantin, Experiencia e Politica no pensamento de Michel Foucault, Editora UFPR 2021. SINOPSE Certamente a noção de experiência que acompanhamos em diferentes momentos do pensamento foucaultiano não é um conceito diretamente reiterado e redefinido ao longo de todas as suas obras. Foucault nunca escreveu: eu disse que experiência era aquilo, mas na verdade …

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Platonism. Ficino to Foucault Editors: Valery Rees, Anna Corrias, Francesca M. Crasta, Laura Follesa, and Guido Giglioni, Brill, 2021. In particular Candiotto, Laura. “Chapter 14 Care of the Self and Politics: Michel Foucault, Heir of a Forgotten Plato?”. In Platonism, (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020) doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437425_016 The sixteen essays in this volume trace the …

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Marcelo Otero, Foucault sociologue. Critique de la raison impure, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2021 PDF dépliant Résumé L’oeuvre de Michel Foucault est inclassable, car elle traverse des domaines très variés (philosophie, sociologie, histoire, anthropologie, criminologie, médecine, psychologie, linguistique, droit, etc.). Foucault n’est pas un sociologue au sens classique du terme, mais il existe une …

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Gavin Rae, Poststructuralist Agency. The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory, Edinburgh University Press, 2020 Does the poststructuralist decentring of the foundational subject permit a coherent account of agency? Analyses poststructuralist thinking on ‘the subject’ in detail, tying it to the often-ignored question of agency Expands the scope of ‘poststructuralism’ beyond Deleuze, Derrida, and Foucault by also …

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Michel Foucault, Binswanger et l’analyse existentielle : Manuscrit inédit, Gallimard/ Seuil Hautes Etudes 20 Mai 2021. Edition établie, sous la responsabilité de François Ewald, par Elisabetta Basso En 1954 paraît en traduction française Le Rêve et l’Existence du psychiatre suisse Ludwig Binswanger, accompagné d’une introduction de Michel Foucault. Le philosophe y annonce un « ouvrage …

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Michel Foucault, Speaking the Truth about Oneself Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982, Chicago University Press (2021) Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini English Edition Established by Daniel Louis Wyche A collection of Foucault’s lectures that trace the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self. Just before the summer of …

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Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire. A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject, University of Chicago Press, 2018 Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism. Whether as economic interest, sexual drive, or the basic …

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Benjamin Bratton, The Revenge of the Real. Politics for a Post-Pandemic World, Verso, 2021 Review by Geoff Shullenberger in The Washington Examiner The future of politics after the pandemic COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus …

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Nadieszda Kizenko, Good for the Souls, A History of Confession in the Russian Empire, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2021 Audio interview with the author on the New Books Network From the moment that Tsars as well as hierarchs realized that having their subjects go to confession could make them better citizens as well as better Christians, …

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