Mark D. Jordan, Convulsing Bodies. Religion and Resistance in Foucault, Stanford University Press, October 2014 Further info By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault’s thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher’s work is read across the humanities. Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as …
Alessandro Baccarin, Il sottile discrimine. I corpi tra dominio e tecniche del sé. Ombre Corte, 2014 Il libro Il corpo è stato per secoli immune al segno. Dall’antichità fino al recente passato l’Occidente ha relegato la segnatura del corpo al confinamento, alla segregazione ed alla reificazione dei soggetti devianti, criminali o inquinanti. Tuttavia nella contemporaneità …
Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation and Assistance, Edited by Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada, Jean Daniel Jacob, University of Ottawa, Canada and Amélie Perron University of Ottawa, Canada Ashgate, 2014 Further info Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, …
Vanessa Lemm, and Miguel Vatter (eds.) The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism, Fordham University Press, July 2014 ISBN: 9780823255979 Further info See below description for details of book launch at University of NSW Description Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought …
Miguel Vatter, The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society, Fordham University Press,June 2014 ISBN: 9780823256020 Further info Details of workshop on book below description. This book takes up Foucault’s hypothesis that liberal “civil society,” far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives …
Valerie Harwood and Julie Allan. Psychopathology at school: Theorizing mental disorders in education, Routledge (2014) Further info Description Psychopathology at School provides a timely response to concerns about the rising numbers of children whose behaviour is recognised and understood as a medicalised condition, rather than simply as poor behaviour caused by other factors. It is …
Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault. Le pouvoir et la bataille, Presses Universitaires de France, 2014 Further info L’ouvrage Le pouvoir n’est pas ce dont certains se saisissent un beau matin, pour ensuite le perdre ou le céder au gré des événements. À la lisière de nos vies, le pouvoir s’exerce et se risque sans cesse. Telle …
New Series: Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia. Rowman & Littlefield International Further info Continental philosophy left home in the second half of the twentieth century, to migrate to the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. It has established itself in the Anglophone world as a minor tradition in philosophy programmes, but also in cultural studies, literature, …
Emily Horne and Tim Maly, The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance, Coach House Books, September 2014. Further info Note also: Sept 21 | Emily Horne & The Inspection House at Word on the Street – Toronto In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring …
Língua(gens) em Discurso – A Formação dos Objetos Organizadoras: Ismara Tasso e Érica Danielle Silva Editora: Pontes Coleção Linguagem&Sociedade (v. 7) Ano de publicação: 2014. Com o objetivo de subsidiar teórica e metodologicamente pesquisadores e estudiosos do campo epistemológico do discurso, esta coletânea reúne, com singular empenho dos autores, inéditas e substanciais discussões e reflexões …
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