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Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions – Bloomsbury, December 2020 Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last…
Amelia Morris, The Politics of Weight. Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 This book speaks to the politics of weight through an interrogation of dieting, power and the body. In feminist theory, there is no greater site of contestation than that of the body, and Morris explores how these debates often become …
Jean-Claude Monod, L’Art de ne pas être trop gouverné, Seuil, 2019 À la fin des années 1970, Michel Foucault a avancé le concept de « crise de gouvernementalité » pour approcher des phénomènes où la contestation de certains pouvoirs – religieux, politiques, disciplinaires… –, d’abord localisée, s’est élargie pour mettre en question un dispositif général …
Foucault. Repenser les rapports entre les Grecs et les Modernes Sous la direction de : Hans-Jurgen Lüsebrink, Jean-Marc Narbonne, Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen, Presse de l’Université LavalPresses de l’Université Laval, Collection: Zêtêsis, à paraître Foucault aurait-il choisi de se retirer de l’arène politique contemporaine pour se refugier dans « la posture antique du sage » ? Pourquoi, …
Après «Les Aveux de la chair» Généalogie du sujet chez Michel Foucault, Epel, Mars 2020 Ouvrage dirigé par Sandra Boehringer et Laurie Laufer Attraper erôs dans le filet du logos, l’Occident n’a pas attendu la psychanalyse pour s’y employer. Entre les aphrodisia grecs et le dispositif de sexualité moderne, il ne restait plus à Foucault …
Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker, Sarah L. Taylor (eds) Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases, Routledge, 2013 Description Biosecurity is the assessment and management of potentially dangerous infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive (alien) species, living modified organisms, and biological weapons. It is a holistic concept of direct relevance to the sustainability of agriculture, …
Linda Martín Alcoff, Rape and Resistance, Polity, 2018 DESCRIPTION Sexual violence has become a topic of intense media scrutiny, thanks to the bravery of survivors coming forward to tell their stories. But, unfortunately, mainstream public spheres too often echo reports in a way that inhibits proper understanding of its causes, placing too much emphasis on …
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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Foucault against Neoliberalism? translated by Matthew Maclellan – Rowman, June 2020 In the late 1970s, Michel Foucault dedicated a number of controversial lectures on the subject of neoliberalism. Had Foucault been seduced by neoliberalism? Did France’s premier leftist intellectual, near the end of his career, turn to…
Cory Wimberly, How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public (Routledge: New York, 2020). How Propaganda Became Public Relations pulls back the curtain on propaganda: how it was born, how it works, and how it has masked the bulk of its operations by rebranding itself as public relations. Cory Wimberly …
Daniel Zamora et Mitchel Dean, Le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution. Foucault après Mai 68, Lux, 2019. Will be published in English by Verso in 2020 La dernière décennie de Michel Foucault a coïncidé avec l’agonie des espoirs de transformation sociale qui avaient marqué l’après-guerre. Face à cette «fin de la révolution», …
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