Richard Lynch, Foucault’s Critical Ethics, Fordham University Press, 2016 DESCRIPTION The central thesis of Foucault’s Critical Ethics is that Foucault’s account of power does not foreclose the possibility of ethics; on the contrary, it provides a framework within which ethics becomes possible. Tracing the evolution of Foucault’s analysis of power from his early articulations of …
Christian Laval : Foucault, Bourdieu et la question néolibérale, La Découverte – Mars 2018 Foucault et Bourdieu ont tous deux désigné leur époque comme celle du néolibéralisme. Un terme qui caractérise toujours parfaitement la nôtre. En prenant soin de suivre le contexte propre à chacun, Christian Laval relève, parmi les analyses des deux intellectuels, ce …
Foucault and Nietzsche: A Critical Encounter (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy) Edited by Joseph Westfall and Alan Rosenberg, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 Foucault’s intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored. Foucault himself seems sometimes to claim that his approach is essentially …
Shelley L. Tremain, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, University of Michigan Press, 2017 Addresses misrepresentations of Foucault’s work within feminist philosophy and disability studies, offering a new feminist philosophy of disability Description Accessibility features: The EPUB version includes textual description of images to make visual content accessible to readers with disabilities that affect reading. Foucault …
Ugo Balzaretti, Leben und Macht Eine radikale Kritik am Naturalismus nach Michel Foucault und Georges Canguilhem, Klebebindung (2018) BESCHREIBUNG Das Biologische ist, Lévinas zufolge, zum »Herzen des geistigen Lebens« geworden. Davon zeugt sowohl die zunehmende Bedeutung der Biowissenschaften als auch die Verbreitung biologistischer Menschenbilder. Doch liegt der moderne Biologismus mehr noch in einem subtilen Naturalismus, …
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Marnia Lazreg, Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan – now out with Berghahn. Looks fascinating, and the use of archives and interviews should make this revealing. The Introduction is available online and has some interesting, though not unproblematic, claims. But the price for the book! £92 or $130……
Sophie Wintgens and Audrey Weerts, (eds.) L’État dans tous ses états Peter Lang, Series: Géopolitique et résolution des conflits / Geopolitics and Conflict Resolution, 2017 ISBN: 9782807603646 Depuis l’avènement de l’État moderne au 17e siècle, l’État a connu de nombreuses évolutions. De l’idée d’État-nation en passant par celle d’État-providence, le concept s’est imposé dans nos …
Roundup of media discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair (mostly French) | Progressive Geographies Some of the media discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair. Will add other pieces as I see them – do add comments if you know of more. Michel Foucault, culture physique – FranceCulture podcast Il est comment le dernier Michel …
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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