Foucault News

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

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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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Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer 360 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2014 Further info Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently …

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Thiago Fortes Ribas, Foucault: verdade e loucura no nascimento da arqueologia, Editora Universidade Federal do Paraná (2014) Further info Com a clareza e a profundidade conceitual necessárias ao estudo de um dos filósofos mais importantes do século XX, este livro traz à tona o tema, atual e relevante, da relação entre verdade e loucura. Como …

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