History and Obstinacy By Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt Edited by Devin Fore With Cyrus Shahan, Martin Brady, Helen Hughes and Joel Golb Translated by Richard Langston The MIT Press, 2016 Devin Fore’s introduction which refers to Foucault can be found on his university website Overview If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of …
Mark de Valk (Ed.) Screening the Tortured Body. The Cinema as Scaffold, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Inspired by Michel Foucault’s examination of state subjugation and control, this book considers post-structuralist notions of the ‘political technology of the body’ and ‘the spectacle of the scaffold’ as a means to analyse cinematic representations of politically-motivated persecution and bodily …
Bendix Petersen, Eva, Millei, Zsuzsa (Eds.), Interrupting the Psy-Disciplines in Education, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 This book offers critical explorations of how the psy-disciplines, Michel Foucault’s collective term for psychiatry, psychology and psycho-analysis, play out in contemporary educational spaces. With a strong focus on Foucault’s theories, it critically investigates how the psy-disciplines continue to influence education, …
Bal Sokhi-Bulley, Governing (Through) Rights, Hart Publishing, 2016 About Governing (Through) Rights Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality. They are a regulating discourse that is itself managed through governing tactics and techniques – hence governing (through) rights. Part I examines …
Interview with Stuart Elden by Dave O’Brien (podcast) on the New Books Network In relation to Foucault’s Last Decade Polity Press 2016 Why did Michel Foucault radically recast the project of The History of Sexuality? How did he work collaboratively? What was the influence of Antiquity on his thought? In Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) Stuart Elden, …
Jason Read, Cutting Off Heads. A review of Foucault with Marx by Jacques Bidet (Zed Books: London, 2016) Jacques Bidet’s Foucault with Marx represents yet another contribution to the eventual overcoming of an academic skirmish between advocates of Foucault and Marx, itself a smaller conflict in the larger battle of postmodernism versus Marxism. The perspective …
Jacques Bidet, Foucault with Marx Translated by Steven Corcoran, Zed Books, 2016 The first synthesis of Foucauldian and Marxist theory, constituting a twenty-first century paradigm shift in political and philosophical thinking. With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world’s two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, …
Frieder Vogelmann, Foucault lesen, Springer, 2017 Dieses Springer essential stellt einen systematischen und philosophischen Lektürevorschlag zur Diskussion: Systematisch werden Foucaults Schriften von seiner methodologischen Perspektive her als nihilistische, nominalistische und historizistische Analyse von Praktiken und den in ihnen produzierten Wirklichkeiten entlang der drei Achsen des Wissens, der Macht und der Selbstverhältnisse gedeutet. Die Konsequenzen dieser …
Editor: I am delighted to announce that my long out of print 1989 book (originally published with Macmillan) has been republished as an ebook. Clare O’Farrell, Foucault: Historian or Philosopher? ebook, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. PDF flyer Description The controversial French thinker, Michel Foucault, was famous not only for the variety of his interests but …
Foucault on the Arts and Letters – Exclusive 30% pre-order discount Rowman & Littlefield International is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century edited by Catherine M. Soussloff. This book is a collection of new essays addressing Foucault’s thought and its impact on thinking about …
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