Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens, Normality: A Critical Genealogy, University of Chicago Press, 2017 The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine …
Kélina Gotman, Choreomania. Dance and Disorder, Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. Oxford University Press. Description When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the disorder being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly movements …
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There is a Warwick news release of information about Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair, in which I briefly explain how the book fits within Foucault’s work and its importance. I’ve already agreed to write a longer review of the book, and did a first interview on it yesterday evening. ?
Monica Loyola Stival, Politique et morale chez Foucault. Entre la critique et le nominalisme, Paris: L’Harmattan La philosophie en commun PHILOSOPHIE Dans la sphère anthropologique ou dans la sphère politique, la manière dont Foucault élabore sa critique reste attachée à la procédure critique qui l’empêche d’échapper à la dimension transcendantale de la synthèse. Cette exigence …
BRUNON-ERNST Anne, BOZZO-REY Malik (dir.), Nudges et normativités. Généalogies, concepts et applications, Hermann, 15 Janvier 2018. Lorsqu’il est question d’influencer le comportement des individus à l’aide de politiques publiques ou d’interventions gouvernementales, certains préféreront parler de contrôle social. Nous pouvons remarquer que la première décennie du XXIe siècle est marquée par la volonté de développer …
Editor: I am pleased to announce a new book which I translated which will be out in August. Foucault at the Movies Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, Dork Zabunyan. Translated and Edited by Clare O’Farrell Columbia University Press, forthcoming July 2018 Michel Foucault’s work on film, although not extensive, compellingly illustrates the power of bringing his …
Isabelle Galichon, Le récit de soi. Une pratique éthique d’émancipation, Ouverture Philosophique, Paris. L’Harmattan, 2018 Les derniers travaux de Michel Foucault peuvent être appréhendés comme une nouvelle grille de lecture pour l’analyse des pratiques d’écriture personnelle dont peut se saisir la théorie littéraire. Dans ses cours au Collège de France sur les pratiques de soi …
Video: Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault — Philosophy and Psychology (1965), From the Verso Books blog, 9 January 2018 Watch a televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault on philosophy and psychology. A televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault, under the heading “Philosophy and Psychology,” is available to stream in …
Frieder Vogelmann, The Spell of Responsibility. Labor, Criminality, Philosophy Trans. Daniel Steuer, Bloomsbury, 2017 Most people would agree that we should behave and act in a responsible way. Yet only 200 years ago, ‘responsibility’ was only of marginal importance in discussions of law and legal practice, and it had little ethical significance. What is the …
Amy Allen, The End of Progress. Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2016 (2017 paperback) While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and …
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