Foucault News

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

Zevnik, Luka, Critical Perspectives in Happiness Research: The Birth of Modern Happiness, Springer, 2014 Publisher’s page Explores the concept of modernization as the collective pursuit of happiness Places the concept of happiness into a historical and cultural context Analyses the relationship of modern consumer culture with happiness in contemporary western societies This book presents an …

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Marcella Milana and John Holford (Eds), Adult Education Policy and the European Union: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers, 2014 PDF flyer website The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers …

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James Faubion (Editor), Foucault Now, Polity, February 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7456-6378-4 232 pages Publisher’s page Description Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to …

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Editors: Leonard Lawlor and John Nale Contributors Dianna Taylor, Erinn Gilson, Gary Gutting, Richard A. Lynch, H. A. Nethery IV, Eduardo Mendieta, John Protevi, Stephanie Jenkins, James Bernauer, Paul Patton, Corey McCall, Leonard Lawlor, Jeffrey T. Nealon, Christopher Penfield, Arun Iyer, Margaret McLaren, Devonya N. Havis, Gilles …

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Michel Foucault, Subjectivité et vérité. Cours au Collège de France (1980-1981), Gallimard Seuil, Collection Hautes Etudes Date de parution 02/05/2014 352 pages – 26.00 € TTC Publisher’s page « L’hypothèse de travail est celle-ci : il est vrai que la sexualité comme expérience n’est évidemment pas indépendante des codes et du système des interdits, mais …

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Martin Paul Eve, Pynchon and Philosophy. Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. PDF flyer for book with details of discount (Discount valid until 31st May 2014) Publisher’s site Author’s site Thomas Pynchon, perhaps the most important living American author, is famed for his lengthy, complex and erudite fictions. Given these characteristics, an examination …

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Marco Díaz Marsá, Modificaciones. Ontología crítica y antropología política en el pensamiento de Foucault, Escolar y Mayo Editores, 2014 ISBN 10: 8416020108 / ISBN 13: 9788416020102 Contraportada: En los últimos tiempos se ha venido afianzado una lectura de la obra de Foucault que desestima las primeras aproximaciones epistemológicas o meramente sociologizantes, muy afines al propio …

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Michel Foucault – Freedom and Knowledge Author(s): Edited by Fons Elders and Lionel Claris Elders Special Productions BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-805600-6-2 NUR 730 You can purchase this book as a paperback or an ebook. An extract can also be found on Lionel Claris’ academia.edu site and you can find a version of Lynne Huffer’s …

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Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014) The Productive Body. Translated and introduced by Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro. London: Zero Books. The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism’s transformation of the body is related to the rise of …

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Hervé Oulc’hen (dir.), Usages de Foucault, Paris, PUF, coll. « Pratiques théoriques », 2014, 406 p., avant-propos de Guillaume le Blanc, ISBN : 978-2-13-062110-2. Further info Compte rendu de Alexandre Klein Sommaire L’oeuvre de Foucault est toute entière traversée par la question théorique et pratique des usages. Question de méthode, d’abord : Foucault fait usage …

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