Foucault News

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

Miotto, M. & Daflon, Alessandra (eds.) (2024). Corpo, vida e biopolítica: encontros extensionistas em torno de Michel Foucault. Cachoeirinha: Editora Fi. Open access O livro que o leitor tem em mãos é resultado do I e II Encontro de Estudos sobre Michel Foucault, eventos nacionais ocorridos em 2020-2021 e organizados pelo projeto de extensão da …

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Rainsborough, M. Intercultural Thinking in African Philosophy: A Critical Dialogue with Kant and Foucault, Routledge (2024) Abstract This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry …

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Iván Torres Apablaza, Michel Foucault, una lectura posthumanista. Ética, política, porvenir, Alma Negra, 2024 Extracto (PDF) «El lente a través de la cual este trabajo reconstruye la vertiginosa, en ocasiones aparentemente contradictoria y, en todo caso, intrincada trayectoria foucaultiana –permítaseme: uno de los grandes filósofos del siglo XX– es la continuidad del problema, estrictamente filosófico …

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Nildo Avelino, Foucault, Proudhon, Malatesta: Anarquismo e Governamentalidade, Appris Editora, 2024 O livro Foucault, Proudhon, Malatesta: anarquismo e governamentalidade investiga as reflexões do anarquista francês Pierre-Joseph Proudhon e do anarquista italiano Errico Malatesta sobre o exercício do poder governamental, utilizando uma abordagem dos estudos da governamentalidade, noção elaborada por Michel Foucault para designar o campo …

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Serene Richards, Biopolitics as a System of Thought, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival. Armed with this concept, this …

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Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence. Freedom, Nature and Agency, Bloomsbury, 2024 Description In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores its implications for ethics. In order to distinguish Foucault’s position, Falzon charts the historical trajectory of …

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Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies. Another Way of Cutting Reality, Oxford University Press, 2024 The aims of this book: 1. To shed new light on a neglected theme in one of the most influential contemporary thinkers by exploring Foucault’s thinking on technology. Foucault’s Technologies argues that Foucault’s thinking, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, is fundamentally …

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Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty. Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy, Columbia University Press, 2024 To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in order to assume authority. In this sense, sovereignty is a theatrical phenomenon from the …

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Landenne, Quentin, et Emmanuel Salanskis, éd. Les métamorphoses de la « généalogie » après Nietzsche. Bruxelles: Presses universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pusl.28428. Open access Les contributions réunies dans ce volume visent à explorer le champ des postérités généalogiques de Nietzsche. Dans cette perspective, il convient d’abord de faire une nette distinction entre la dimension programmatique …

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