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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Lydia Davis, Foucault and Pencil (short story) The author reading her story (audio file) ‘The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis’ Review by Michelle de Kretser, The Monthly, Australian politics and culture, October 2010 In the United States, Lydia Davis has long been acclaimed for her experiments in short fiction. Elsewhere, she is best known as …
Julia Toynbee Lagoutte, Getting personal: how biosecurity gets under our skin., Green European Journal Volume 15, April 2017 Review of Frédéric Gros’s book Le Principe Sécurité (The Security Principle, 2012). The term security has acquired such breadth and been remoulded so often that it can start to seem meaningless. It is the mantra that will …
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