Foucault News

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

Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment.Edited by David Kreps, Ashgate, February 2015 Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible. With discussions of Latin American revolutionary politics, …

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Hamdi Nabli, Foucault et Baudrillard: La fin du pouvoir, L’Harmattan, 2015 ISBN : 978-2-343-05754-5 • 1 juin 2015 • 214 pages Foucault, dans son Histoire de la sexualité, esquissa une anthropologie du plaisir dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine. Ce travail avait constitué un virage, car depuis Mai 68, l’intellectuel avait fait de l’engagement le vecteur des résistances …

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Shelley Tremain, Editor, Foucault and the Government of Disability, University of Michigan, 2015 Enlarged and Revised Edition An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, …

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Originally posted on ENTITLE blog – a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology:
Uses and abuses of historical contextualization in Critiquer Foucault. Les années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, edited by Daniel Zamora. Part I.  * by Emanuele Leonardi Foucault participating in a demonstration. Source: http://www.teatrovalleoccupato.it/ Reviewing Critquer Foucault is not an easy task, for…

Serge Audier, Penser le « néolibéralisme ». Le moment néolibéral, Foucault, et la crise du socialisme, Lormont, Le Bord de l’eau, coll. « Documents », 2015, 570 p., ISBN : 9782356874030. Further Info Qu’est-ce vraiment que le néolibéralisme ? Et comment en sortir ? Pour répondre à ces questions, il peut être utile d’élucider d’abord …

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Monica Loyola STIVAL, Política e moral em Foucault: entre a crítica e o nominalismo, Edições Loyola, 2015 Further info Sinopse A polêmica recente em torno da posição de Foucault sobre o liberalismo testemunha a dificuldade em analisar a dimensão política de seu trabalho. Este livro estabelece uma leitura crítica da questão política, marcando posição nesse …

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Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights. Stanford University Press, forthcoming in October This book focuses on Michel Foucault’s late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early …

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Foucault against Himself By (author) Francois Caillat Translated by David Homel Arsenal Pulp Press Price: $17.95 CAD $17.95 USD ISBN: 9781551526027 EPUB ISBN: 9781551526034 (check your favourite retailer) Availability: Coming soon. For more information contact sales@arsenalpulp.com A thought-provoking collection of essays on Michel Foucault that reframes his legacy. In his private life, as well as …

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SÉMINAIRE FOUCAULT Animé par Jean-François Braunstein et Daniele Lorenzini Samedi 18 avril 2015, 10h30 – 12h30 Judith REVEL (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre) “Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty : une ontologie politique” Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR de philosophie 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier C, 1er étage droite, salle Lalande