Foucault News

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

Reinvenções de Foucault Ana Kiffer.(org.) Antonio Pele.(org.) Francisco de Guimaraens.(org.) Mauricio Rocha.(org.) Rafael Becker.(org.) Lamparina, 2017 ISBN 978 85 8316 050 2Cód. barras 9788583160502 Em 1973, Michel Foucault apresenta no Collège de France o Curso “A sociedade punitiva”, parte do conjunto de análises que servirão de base ao livro Vigiar e Punir, de 1975. As …

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An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz, Theory Culture and Society, 22 May 2017 The Incorporeal’: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz Elizabeth Grosz & Vikki Bell March 2017 VB: Many congratulations on the publication of your new book The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics and the Limits of Materialism (Columbia University Press, 2017). The book seems to simultaneously explore …

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Biancamaria Fontana, Would you mind imprisoning my wife? Times Literary Supplement, May 17, 2017 Review of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families. Infamous letters from the Bastille archives. Edited by Nancy Luxon. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton 344pp. University of Minnesota Press. $35. Imagine living in a country where your domestic conflicts could be solved …

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Peter Triantafillou, Neoliberal power and public management reforms, Manchester University Press, April 2017 DESCRIPTION This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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