Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights, Stanford University Press, 2015, Now available. Publisher’s page 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 …
Sverre Raffnsøe, Morten S Thaning, Marius Gudmand-Hoyer, Michel Foucault: A Research Companion. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 Publication Date: November 2015 Michel Foucault continues to be hugely influential. His diagnoses challenge us to rethink crucial phenomena such as madness, discipline, the human sciences, the state, neoliberalism, sexuality and subject formation. Based on his work in its entirety, …
Kaveh Dastooreh, Vers une sociologie foucaldienne. Réunir l’objectivation et la subjectivation, L’Harmattan, 2015 L’œuvre foucaldienne est aussi une œuvre sociologique. Sa pensée conduit à une pratique autoréflexive de la sociologie. Ce qui rapproche Foucault des sociologues, c’est sa compréhension du sujet à travers un social devenu historique ; cette Histoire nous revient en tant que …
Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights Ben Golder, Editor (New York: Routledge, 2013. 264 pages.) Reviewed by—Irina Ceric, (Criminology Faculty member, Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Vancouver, October 2014 Re-reading Foucault is an ambitious and mostly successful attempt to answer the question “Where is the law in Foucault and what has he done with it?” and …
Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition Edited by Perry Zurn, Andrew Dilts Palgrave Macmillan:November 2015 This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d’information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, the GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, …
Michel Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire. On Literature, University of Minnesota Press, 2015 Edited by Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, and Judith Revel Translated by Robert Bononno As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And …
Arun Iyer, Towards an Epistemology of RupturesThe Case of Heidegger and Foucault., Bloomsbury, 2014 See also Review by H.A. Nethery at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews About By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological implications of Heidegger’s history of being and Foucault’s archaeology of discursive formations, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures shows how Heidegger and …
Alan McKinlay, Philip Taylor Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization: Inside the Factory of the Future, Routledge Research in Employment Relations, 2014 About the Book This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the …
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, …
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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