Foucault News

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

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Zone Books, 2015 Political Science | Philosophy $29.95 | £20.05 cloth 978-1-935408-53-6 296 pp. | 6 x 8 Available January 2015 Zone books Also available from MIT Press Neoliberal rationality — ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture — remakes everything and …

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Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Alexander Arnold on Critiquer Foucault: Les Années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, Los Angeles Review of Books, 18 March 2015 JACOBIN RECENTLY PUBLISHED an interview with a little-known sociologist that provoked a wave of reactions. A young Belgian scholar named Daniel Zamora claimed that …

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Madness in Civilization: from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull Reviewed by Salley Vickers, The Telegraph, 29 Mar 2015 I doubt whether many people other than social science students read Michel Foucault these days. Andrew Scull, whose review of Foucault’s The History of Madness in 2007 took the …

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Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi Édition établie par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini Introduction et apparat critique par D. Lorenzini et A.I. Davidson Vrin – Philosophie du présent 192 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2624-3 – mars 2015 PDF Table des matières Le 27 mai 1978, …

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Michel Foucault. Genealogie del presente, Con un’intervista a Michel Foucault e un’intervista a Daniel Defert Saggi di Laura Cremonesi, Daniele Lorenzini, Orazio Irrera, Martina Tazzioli, Paolo B. Vernaglione Manifestolibri, 2015 Further info Dall’Introduzione al volume: L’occasione di questa pubblicazione è stato il trentennale della scomparsa di Michel Foucault. Nel 2014 in tutto il mondo convegni …

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PDF of flyer La prochaine séance du séminaire Actualités Foucault aura lieu le jeudi 19 mars 2015, de 16h à 18h, à l’Université Paris-Est Créteil, bâtiment i, 2e étage, salle 233 (métro ligne 8, Créteil Université). La séance sera consacrée à la présentation du livre de Judith Revel (Paris 10) : Foucault avec Merleau-Ponty (Vrin, …

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Emanuele Leonardi, Review of Dardot & Laval’s The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society, Theory Culture & Society, Nov 13, 2014 Link to full review Abstract: The review highlights how the new book by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval can be interpreted as a twofold contribution. On the one hand, it represents much-needed …

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Foucault and the History of Our Present, edited by Sophie Fuggle, Yari Lanci, and Martina Tazzioli ISBN 9781137385918 Publication Date February 2015 Formats Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF) Publisher Palgrave Macmillan PDF of flyer PDF of front matter and intro According to philosopher Michel Foucault, the ‘history of the present’ should constitute the starting point …

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Lectures de Michel Foucault 3 volumes originally published by ENS editions, now available in their entirety as open access at Open Edition books Les interventions et discussions réunies dans les trois volumes des Lectures de Michel Foucault sont issues de trois rencontres. La première, organisée à l’initiative de l’association Autrement dit, de l’association pour le …

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Jörg Bernardy, Warum Macht produktiv ist. Genealogische Blickschule mit Foucault, Nietzsche und Wittgenstein, Wilhelm Fink, 2015 Further info Informationen zum Buch Im alltäglichen Denken und in den Medien ist Macht meist negativ besetzt. Dass Macht auch produktiv wirkt, wird dabei oftmals vergessen. Der historische Wandel von der traditionellen Souveränitätsmacht zu den subtilen Mechanismen moderner Disziplinargesellschaften …

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