Foucault News

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

Richard Groulx, Michel Foucault, la politique comme guerre continuée. De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, Sur le Cours au Collège de France, “Il faut défendre la société”, Paris: Editions l’Harmattan, 2015. La guerre est-elle un accident des sociétés ou appartient-elle à leur constitution même ? Telle est la question posée par Foucault dans …

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Jemima Repo (2015) The Biopolitics of Gender. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender Conducts a genealogy of gender similar to Foucault’s mid-twentieth century genealogy of sexuality Argues that gender is an apparatus of biopower invented in the postwar period in order to regulate the reproduction …

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Rosie Smith, Book Review: Foucault’s ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’. The Sociological Imagination, 2015 Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lecture series ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’ is a wonderfully insightful book. It provides a detailed examination of the role of truth-telling throughout antiquity and its development into a key stone of contemporary European juridical proceedings. Specifically, Foucault investigates, within the discourse of …

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Presentación LOS USOS DE FOUCAULT EN LA ARGENTINA recepción y circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días Mariana Canavese Participan: Edgardo Castro, Ivana Costa, Horacio Tarcus y Hugo Vezzetti Jueves 5 de noviembre, 19 hs Librería Hernández Av. Corrientes 1436, C.A.B.A. Michel Foucault es quizás el filósofo más citado en la Argentina y en …

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Mariana Canavese, Los usos de Foucault en la Argentina. Recepción y circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días, Siglo XXI Editores, 2015 (English translation of text below) Michel Foucault es quizás el filósofo más citado en la Argentina y en el mundo; en sus obras hay palabras clave que atraviesan el discurso académico así …

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Editor: Palgrave Macmillan have kindly offered a 30% discount to readers of Foucault News on books in their Foucault collection Works included in this collection are The Punitive Society and Michel Foucault: A Research Companion The full price on the latter work has been reduced since I last posted on this. I will repost again …

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Michael James Rizza The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault, Noesis/The Davies Group, 2015 Notice on author’s blog An interview with the author, Michael James Rizza, in Hyperrhiz 12 This in-depth discussion of several canonical theorists — Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault — traces the trajectory of their ideas from one text …

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Sandrine Alexandre, Compte rendu : Arianna Sforzini : Michel Foucault, une pensée du corps, Actu Philosophia, 6 mars 2015 Plutôt qu’une véritable réflexion sur une « pensée du corps », une analyse de la thématique du corps chez Foucault 1. Le corps, les corps – un thème tout à la fois central chez Foucault mais peu étudié …

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Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen, State Phobia and Civil Society: The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault, Stanford University Press, forthcoming January 2016 Publisher’s page State Phobia draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes …

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