Richard Lee, Laurent Binet: ‘I’ll vote Macron, but I hate having to do it’. The Guardian, 5 May 2017 The Frenchman’s novel about the blurred line between fiction and reality, The 7th Function of Language, is all the more poignant in the era of Trump, Le Pen and fake news. […] His latest novel, The …
Edited by Philippe Bonditti, Didier Bigo et Frédéric Gros, Foucault and the Modern International. Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017 This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of …
Fhulufhuwani Hastings Nekhwevha, Freire contra Foucault on Power/Knowledge and Truth Discourses. The Constitution of a Subject for Authentic Educational Praxis in South Africa, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012 This is a partly theoretical and partly historical study whose ‘focus-down’ approach has as a main objective a detailed comparative dissection of Freire and Foucault’s conceptions of …
Rodrigo Cordero, Crisis and Critique: On the Fragile Foundations of Social Life. Routledge, 2017 Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of completion. In such moments of rupture, the social world reveals the stuff of which it is made and …
Matan Oram, Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault, The Totality of Reason, Routledge, 2017 About the Book Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective. Through the interpretative prism of the concept of the‘Totality of Reason’, this book suggests an original analytical reading of Foucault’s thought. This …
Quentin Molinier, La « French Theory » du spectateur, Nonfiction.fr, 2015 Compte rendu: Christian Ruby, Spectateur et politique. D’une conception crépusculaire à une conception affirmative de la culture ?, La Lettre Volée, 2014 Résumé : Qu’est-ce qu’être spectateur aujourd’hui ? Et quel est son rôle, son destin politique ? L’auteur montre en quoi les réflexions …
Gary Gutting, What Philosophy Can Do, W.W. Norton, 2016 “A brilliant demonstration of what philosophy can do and how it is essential to human integrity and identity.”—Simon Critchley, coeditor of The Stone Reader How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents? How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports? How can we …
Anthony Alessandrini, “Rescuing the Revolution from Its Outcomes”, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, March 23 2017 Part of a Book Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 272 pp., $27.00 US (pbk), ISBN 9780816699490. Full PDF Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s Foucault …
In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Foucault in Brazil Review of Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, Ensaios sobre Michel Foucault no Brasil: Presença, efeitos, ressonâncias (Lamparina 2016), 176 pages Reviewed by Marcelo Hoffman, Theory Culture and Society, 22 March 2017 Open access Abstract: Michel Foucault visited Brazil five times from 1965 to 1976 yet the details …
Michel Foucault, Dire vrai sur soi-même Conférences prononcées à l’Université Victoria de Toronto Vrin – Philosophie du présent 296 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2749-3 – mars 2017 À la fin du premier semestre 1982, Michel Foucault prononce à l’Université Victoria de Toronto un cycle de conférences intitulé Dire vrai sur soi-même. Le …
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