Ulrich Bröckling, The Entrepreneurial Self.Fabricating a New Type of Subject, SAGE, 2015 “This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed …
Dominique Beynier MICHEL FOUCAULT, « Le monde correctionnaire » , in Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (1961), Gallimard, 1974, 92-123 In Didier Drieu (ed) 46 commentaires de textes en clinique institutionnelle – Dunod, 2013 Premières lignes Michel Foucault (1926-1984), entre en 1946 à l’École normale supérieure. Il obtient en Sorbonne une licence de …
Paul Bruce Mcilvenny, Julia Zhukova Klausen, Laura Bang Lindegaard, (Eds.) (2016). Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New Perspectives and Methods. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of …
Francescomaria Tedesco, Eccedenza Sovrana , Mimesis Edizioni, 2012 Pasolini, discutendo di Salò, sosteneva che nulla è più anarchico del potere, perché il potere fa ciò che vuole, e ciò che vuole il potere è completamente arbitrario. Eppure, a scrutare il fondo uccisore della sovranità moderna, emerge la fragilità di un potere che ha bisogno, per esistere, …
Foucault and the Making of Subjects Edited by Laura Cremonesi; Orazio Irrera; Daniele Lorenzini and Martina Tazzioli, Rowman & Littlefield imprint. Bloomsbury, 2016 Michel Foucault’s account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a “subject of” and being “subject to” political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences …
Colin Gordon, Review Article: The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, History of the Human Sciences 2016, Vol. 29(3) 91–110 https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695116653948 Also on academia.edu Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (eds) The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon. New York:Cambridge University Press, 2014. 741 pp. £99.99. ISBN: 9780521119214 (hbk) Extract This big and potentially influential volume is one sign among others of …
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Foucault in Iran Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics …
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Out shortly is Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. Foucault in Iran centers on the significance of Foucault’s writings on the Iranian Revolution and the profound mark it left on his lectures on ethics, spirituality, and fearless speech. This…
Pascal Hintermeyer (ed.) Foucault post mortem en Europe, Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2015 Michel Foucault continue à marquer des pans entiers de la pensée contemporaine en apparaissant comme un penseur à multiples facettes, qui se joue des frontières, bouscule les clivages établis, évolue sans cesse, surgit là où on ne l’attendait pas, ouvrant ainsi de …
Kaveh Dastooreh, Le dilemme de la continuite et de la discontinuite. La diversite methodologique foucaldienne, Connaissances et savoirs, 2016 Sociologie – 62 pages – 140×200 ISBN : 9782753903319 La pensée de Michel Foucault est souvent présentée comme une pensée discontinuitiviste, comme si la discontinuité était le seul thème administrant son travail. En étudiant ce que …
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