Foucault News

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

Jonathan Fanara, « Les Trois Maisons de Michel Foucault » : les demeures de la pensée, LeMagduCiné, 27 mai 2026 Avec Les Trois Maisons de Michel Foucault, les Presses universitaires de Rennes prennent le parti d’explorer le philosophe français à travers Poitiers, Vendeuvre et Verrue. Le livre transforme ces lieux de vie en véritables chambres …

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Frédéric Chauvaud, Irène Le Roy Ladurie, Jean-Luc Terradillos, Henri-Paul Fruchaud (préface), Benoît Hamet (illustration-photographie), Les trois maisons de Michel Foucault, Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2026) Né à Poitiers, Michel Foucault, philosophe de la folie, de l’archéologie des sciences humaines, du crime, du pouvoir, de la sexualité et de bien d’autres domaines, est l’auteur d’une oeuvre …

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Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault. Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps, La Découverte, 2026 (Parution : 03/09/2026) Après Leçons de ténèbres, le nouveau cours de Didier Fassin au Collège de France. À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Michel Foucault, cet ouvrage analyse l’empreinte laissée par son œuvre, dans le champ intellectuel …

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Dimitrios Lais, Foucault’s Ethics of Genealogy. Antiquity, (Neo) Governmentality, and Globalisation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 About this book This book offers a bold reinterpretation of Michel Foucault’s late work, reconstructing him as an ethical philosopher whose account of antiquity provides crucial resources for understanding contemporary forms of power. Bringing Foucault into original dialogue with Habermas, Beck, …

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Diana Obeid, Prison Narratives in the Arab World. Writing as Resistance in Egypt and Syria, Bloomsbury, 2026 Description The book examines how imprisoned Arab authors challenge regimes that seek to reduce them to “docile bodies” or worse-subject them to haywana, the process of animalization that strips prisoners of their humanity. Through clandestine writing, fragmented memory, …

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Ananta Kumar Giri and Saji Varghese (eds), COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations. Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures, Anthem Press, 2025 This book unveils the challenges of living beyond Covid-19 navigating trauma, solidarity, and transformative futures. The novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 emerged in the city of Wuhan in December …

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Marco Brigaglia, Foucault on Power, Law, and Society A Reappraisal, Routledge, 2026 This book offers a detailed analysis and reappraisal of Michel Foucault’s work on power, law, and society. Highlighting the ambiguities, tensions, inconsistencies, and transformations in Foucault’s work, the book shows how, in Foucault’s later years, his ideas gradually converged toward a conception of …

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Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault. A Virtual Force Ontology, Edinburgh University Press, 2026 Christopher Penfield illuminates the philosophical encounter between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, developing the first systematic treatment of Deleuze’s book Foucault, originally published in 1986. Using the full spectrum of Foucault’s primary texts, as well as new insights and analysis from Deleuze’s recently …

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Marc Trabsky, Death. New Trajectories in Law, Routledge, 2024 This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century.   Its starting point is that bio-technological innovations have extended life to such an extent that death has become an epistemological problem for legal institutions. It explores how legal definitions of …

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Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault into English and German, Research Monographs in French Studies, 71 (Legenda, 2025) The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) form a multilingual network of ideas. It is for this reason that Foucault’s ideas are difficult to translate. Yet in Anglophone debates, the task of translation has not …

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