Foucault News

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

“Sociétés carcérales. Relecture(s) de ‘Surveiller et punir’” sous la dir. de Isabelle Fouchard et Daniele Lorenzini Paris, Mare & Martin, 2017. Forthcoming Contributions de Luca D’Ambrosio, Isabelle Aubert, Delphine Böesel, Anne Brunon-Ernst, Cyrille Canetti, Guy Casadamont, Grégoire Chamayou, Gaëtan Cliquennois, Jean Danet, Jean-Marie Delarue, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Piergiorgio Donatelli, Corentin Durand, Isabelle Fouchard, Bernard Harcourt, Adeline …

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Jean-François Bert (dir.), avec la collaboration de Christian Grosse et Julien Cavagnis, Michel Foucault et les religions‪: Paris, Éditions Le Manuscrit (« Religions, Histoire, Cultures »), 2015. Foucault nous a donné de multiples potentialités pour repenser certaines des questions classiques posées par l’histoire et les sciences des religions. Cet ouvrage fait état des nombreux excursus …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Stefanos Geroulanos, Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present is now out with Stanford University Press. This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils…

Le Moment philosophique des années 1960 en France, Sous la direction de Patrice Maniglier, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2011 Présentation Les années 1960 furent le théâtre de l’un des épisodes les plus brillants de l’histoire de la pensée philosophique en France. Elles s’ouvrirent sur le triomphe public du structuralisme, avec La Pensée sauvage de …

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Nathan W. Harter, Foucault on Leadership. The Leader as Subject, Routledge, 2016 Description Michel Foucault, one of the most cited scholars in the social sciences, devoted his last three lectures to a study of leader development. Going back to pagan sources, Foucault found a persistent theme in Hellenistic antiquity that, in order to qualify for …

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Richard Niesche, Amanda Keddie, Leadership, Ethics and Schooling for Social Justice, Routledge, 2016 Description Issues of social justice and equity in the field of educational leadership have become more salient in recent years. The unprecedented diversity, uncertainty and rapid social change of the contemporary global era are generating new and unfamiliar equity questions and challenges …

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Denise Mifsud, Foucault and School Leadership Research. Bridging Theory and Method, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 Foucault and School Leadership Research illustrates the application of Foucauldian theory to an educational leadership research context, thus staging the ways a researcher negotiates the methodological tensions and contradictions in the conduct of qualitative inquiry within education research. The book draws on …

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Foucault in Warsaw, Durieux.eu blog, 31 August 2017.  Le Soir spends ample space on an article by Maya Szymanowska about a new Polish publication by sociologist Remigiusz Ryzinski, ‘Foucault W Warszawie’ (Foucault in Warsaw – no translations yet). In 1955 Michel Foucault arrives in Uppsala, Sweden, where he will work on his doctoral dissertation. But then in October …

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Nina Hoss: ‘The left is in a state of absolute chaos – we have lost our way’ Philip Oltermann in Berlin, The Guardian Tuesday 4 July 2017 01.16 AEST • Returning to Reims is at Home, Manchester, 5-14 July, part of the international festival. Michael Lucey’s translation of Didier Eribon’s book is published by Semiotext(e). When she was a …

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Kelly Bulkeley, Dark Times and the Powers of Dreaming, Huffpost, 24 August 2017 I’ve been thinking a lot recently about a new book, Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought, by Sharon Sliwinski, a professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Sliwinski approaches dreaming as a powerful resource for political theory and action, …

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