Foucault News

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

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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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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