Foucault News

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

Stephen J. Ball , Jordi Collet-Sabé, Against School. Thinking Education Differently, Springer, 2025 About this book This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult …

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PDF of flyer Online Book Launch, 6–9 May 2025  Join us for a four-day online panel series —each day featuring a single one-hour session—hosted by the team behind The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space & Politics, Vol I & II.  Hosted by the co-editors of these two volumes— Dr Nikolina Bobic (University of Plymouth, …

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Lawrence Grossberg, On the Way to Theory, Duke University Press, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478059837 In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces cultural and critical theory’s foundations from the contested enlightenments to modern and …

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Bulut Doğan, Transformation of Higher Education in Turkey: A Foucauldian Analysis, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Abstract This book examines the transformation of higher education in Turkey (Türkiye) after 1980 through Foucault’s historical method, discourse analysis and the concept of dispositif in the field of higher education research. Foucault’s method is seen as holistic and historical. Discourse analysis …

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Liz Teston (ed), Public Interiority Exploring Interiors in the Public Realm, Routledge, 2024 Public Interiority reconsiders the limits of the interior and its perceived spaces, exploring the notion that interior conditions can exist within an exterior environment, and therefore challenging the very foundations of the interior architecture field. Public Interiority contains eight chapters and 16 …

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Shelley Lynn Tremain, Ed. The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and …

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Pietro Barbetta, Giovanni Mascaretti, Lorenzo Petrachi (eds), Michel Foucault.Quarant’anni e poi, Orthotes Editrice, 2024 Sono trascorsi quarant’anni dalla scomparsa di Michel Foucault. Da allora, il corpus foucaultiano e i suoi utilizzi non hanno fatto che moltiplicarsi, diffondersi e diffrangersi, incontrando sulla loro strada movimenti sociali, studi post-coloniali e di genere, letterature e torsioni filosofiche inattese. …

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Edizione Efesto Archeologia del presente è una nuova collana che prova a contaminare pensiero e racconto, cronaca e archivio, giornalismo filosofico e urgenze politiche per elaborare una presa di posizione sulla realtà attuale. Questo campo di ricerca interpella i dispositivi di sapere-potere nel tempo della fine. Pensare questo tempo significa comprendere ciò che resta – …

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Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Par-delà le principe de répression. Dix leçons sur l’abolitionnisme pénal, Flammarion, 2025 « Tout interroger, tout bousculer, tout refonder, et produire, à partir de là, quelque chose comme une désorientation générale de nos sens, une transformation des affects que nous sommes souvent conduits à éprouver lorsque nous sommes victimes ou témoins d’une …

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Daniel Whistler and Mark Sinclair, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2024 -A rich and authoritative guide to French philosophy since 1800 -No other book gives such broad coverage of modern French philosophy -Discusses the ideas in their historical context -Written by an international team of specialists in French philosophy …

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