Foucault News

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

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…

Foucault, la Sexualité, l’Antiquité sous la direction de Sandra Boehringer et Daniele Lorenzini PDF of flyer Ont contribué à cet ouvrage : Jean Allouch, Thamy Ayouch, Sandra Boehringer, Claude Calame, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Kirk Ormand, Olivier Renaut, Arianna Sforzini Éditions Kimé – Philosophie en cours – 196 pages ISBN 978-2-84174-739-9 – 20 € – …

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Daniel Zamora and Michael C. Behrent (eds), Foucault and Neoliberalism, Polity Press, 2016 Description Michel Foucault’s death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become increasingly bold. If Foucault …

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Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self. Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, University of Chicago Press, 2015. Translated by Graham Burchell Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini Introduction and critical apparatus by Laura Cremonesi, Arnold I. Davidson, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli 160 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 …

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Lee Quinby, Anti-Apocalypse. Exercises in Genealogical Criticism, University of Minnesota Press, 1994 As the year 2000 looms, heralding a new millennium, apocalyptic thought abounds-and not merely among religious radicals. In politics, science, philosophy, popular culture, and feminist discourse, apprehensions of the End appear in images of cultural decline and urban chaos, forecasts of the end …

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Vinod Kumar Rawat, Knowledge-Power/Resistance: Beyond Bacon, Ambedkar and Foucault, Partridge India Publication, 2014 Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Educational institutes, that is, “knowledge factories,” apart from producing self-governing citizens, and skilled docile workers, function as minute social observatories that indirectly monitor their families. Michel Foucault delineates power in terms of Pastoral (church and salvation), Sovereign (visible …

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