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 …
Navid Pourmokhtari, Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies. (Re)Claiming World Peace, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 About this book This book argues that not only has the present international relations (IR) paradigm failed to preserve global peace in our time, it has also proved to be an obstacle in this regard, and for this reason …
Simon Lemoine, Les voies étroites de l’émancipation. Pour une philosophie du cours des choses, Paris: Les éditions Hermann 2025 Also published in Canada by Presses de l’Université Laval Cet ouvrage propose une cartographie inédite des rapports de pouvoir contemporains, ouvrant à de nouvelles voies d’émancipation. Un concept neuf est fondé, celui de cours des choses, …
Jan-Peter Herbst and Jonas Menze, Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Consumption of Instruments and Technology in Popular Music, University of Huddersfield Press, 2021 Open access “Gear Acquisition Syndrome, also known as GAS, is commonly understood as the musicians’ unrelenting urge to buy and own instruments and equipment as an anticipated catalyst of creative energy and bringer of …
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