Dictionnaire Roland Barthes. Sous la direction de Claude Coste, Honoré Champion, 2025. Animée par un déplacement incessant qui la conduit de l’engagement des Mythologies au structuralisme (« Analyse structurale des récits », « Éléments de sémiologie ») au post-structuralisme (S/Z), puis à l’essayisme de L’Empire des signes, des Fragments d’un discours amoureux et de La …
Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault. Tome 2: Une nouvelle représentation de la guerre : le monde comme « champ de bataille », L’Harmattan, 2025. Au sujet de la représentation des conflits comme « guerre des races », Foucault demande s’il est possible de filtrer la « violence barbare ». De la même …
Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault. Tome 1: De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, L’Harmattan, 2025 Au fond de la politique, qu’y a-t-il sinon la guerre ? Et cette guerre, comment la définir ? Telles sont les questions posées par Michel Foucault dans son cours au Collège de France, “Il faut …
Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation, Columbia University Press, 2025 Interview with the author in Columbia News, June 25, 2025 Interview with the author on the New Books Network, Jan 17, 2026 What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of …
Andreas Elpidorou, Josefa Ros Velasco, Eds. The History and Philosophy of Boredom, Routledge, 2025 Description From Lucretius’s horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination. Its story, unfolding through millennia, encompasses apathy, weariness, …
William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics. A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens, University of Chicago Press, 2024 A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and …
Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia. The Rhetoric of Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 About this book This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia—the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor—and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been …
Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2025 Link to digital edition Description This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from within the tradition of liberal political economy. Divided into two parts …
Jerome C. Wakefield, Foucault Versus Freud, Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality, Routledge, 2025 In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud’s influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault. …
Wahyudi Akmaliah, Review: Making the subject of Sunda, Inside Indonesia, 14 April 2025 What is ethnicity? Is it social construction or a part of an ancestral heritage? In what way is ethnicity significant in the Indonesian context? These are the questions Holy Rafika Dhona tries to answer in Subjek Sunda: Genealogi. Kelahiran, dan Kewilayahan. Specifically, he offers …
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