Foucault News

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

La fracture politique. Archéologie de l’inégalité démocratique, par Hamdi NABLI, diplômé de Science Politique, Consultant indépendant, Enseignant à la Sorbonne Nouvelle et Fondateur du Centre d’Etudes et de Prospective Internationale (C.E.P.I.). Connaissances et Savoirs, 2016 Cet essai constitue une explication du malaise que ressentent les citoyens et les dirigeants face à la distance qui les sépare …

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Alan McKinlay and Ken Starkey (eds) Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self, Sage, 1998 This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault’s contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization. The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault’s contribution to organization theory, which also …

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Stuart Elden, Foucault’s Last Decade, Polity Press, Official release date 1 April 2016 Publisher’s page Description On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly …

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SQUVERER Amos, LAUFER Laurie (dir.), Foucault et la psychanalyse. Quelques questions analytiques à Michel Foucault, Hermann, 2015 Michel Foucault a entretenu avec la psychanalyse une liaison tumultueuse, faite d’attraction et de rejet. Fasciné par l’œuvre de Freud dans laquelle il reconnaît la rupture essentielle qu’elle représente avec la psychiatrie et la médecine de la fin …

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Michael R. Griffiths, Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture, Routledge, 2015 About the Book From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international …

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Ben Golder, Human rights without humanism. Why does Foucault—an avowed anti-humanist—turn to “rights” in his later works?, Originally on the Stanford University Press blog, 27 October 2015. Currently on The Australian Public Law site (October 2025) […] As human rights rise in popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s so too does the work of thinkers …

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Robert Maggiori, Bouveresse, Opération Vérité, Libération, 12 février 2016 Jacques Bouveresse, Nietzsche contre Foucault. Sur la vérité, la connaissance et le pouvoir Avant-propos de Benoît Gaultier et Jean-Jacques Rosat, Agone, 2016 148 pp., 18 €. Une analyse serrée de la pensée de Foucault et de sa lecture de Nietzsche. Rien ne peut effacer la dette …

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Laura Rice, Of Irony and Empire. Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa, SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies, 2007 Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa. Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly …

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Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité. Précédé de La parrêsia. Édition et apparat critique établis par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini. Introduction par F. Gros. Vrin – Philosophie du présent 320 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2656-4 – février 2016 À l’automne 1983, Michel Foucault prononce, à l’Université de Californie à Berkeley, un cycle …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Translations of Understanding Henri Lefebvre and Foucault’s Last Decade are forthcoming in Korean with Kyungsung University Press and Nanjing Press respectively. These might be the first of my authored books to appear in translation, since potential translations of The Birth of Territory into Portuguese by a Brazilian press and into Korean have stalled, though…