Foucault News

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

Michael Maidan, Review of: A Companion to Foucault by Christopher Falzon,Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki (Editors) Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. This companion to the work of French thinker Michael Foucault offers an overview of his work, and critical essays that explore Foucault’s insights and his influence on contemporary social and political thought. Part I opens with the …

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Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil. Ce livre paraîtra le 10 octobre 2013. Frédéric Gros Foucault et « la société punitive » Compte rendu sur le site Cairn.info Résumé « Malheureusement, quand on enseigne la morale, quand on fait l’histoire de la morale, on explique toujours …

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Meinrad Calleja, (2012) The Battle Roar of Silence: Foucault and the Carceral System, Malta: FARAXA Publishing House Description The Battle Roar of Silence: Foucault and the Carceral System explores the philosophical rationales sustaining morality, law, punishment and the carceral system as part of the discourse of globalisation. This text attempts to desacralize the foundations of …

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David Webb, Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 256pp., $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780748624218. Open access Puts The Archaeology of Knowledge at the heart of Foucault’s thought David Webb reveals the extent to which Foucault’s approach to language in The Archaeology of Knowledge was influenced by the mathematical sciences, adopting a mode of …

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La Volonté de savoir de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1976-1979 Dossier coordonné par Jean-François Bert Textes choisis, présentés et traduits par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Florian Nicodème, Luca Paltrinieri, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Ariane Revel, Judith Revel, Martin Saar, Michel Senellart, Ferhat Taylan. coédition Presses universitaires de Caen – IMEC, Collection Regards critiques …

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Pensées rebelles: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Editions Sciences Humaines. 21 mars 2013 – 192 pages – ISBN : 9782361060343 Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze : trois philosophes longtemps boudés par la France et aujourd’hui redécouverts. Leurs pensées peuvent être qualifiées de «  rebelles  » à double titre. Rebelles d’abord parce que singulières, critiques, irréductibles, remettant sans cesse en …

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En septembre 2013 paraîtront chez Vrin (Paris) les premiers deux volumes de la nouvelle collection « Philosophie du présent », dirigée par Jean-François Braunstein, Arnold I. Davidson et Daniele Lorenzini. PDF Le but de cette collection est de mettre au centre des interrogations philosophiques la question du présent, de notre présent, et de réactiver, à …

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The Funambulist Pamphlets: Volume 02_Foucault By Léopold Lambert CTM Documents Initiative (an imprint of punctum books + Center for Transformative Media, Parsons The New School for Design) Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, 2013. 102 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0615832999. OPEN-ACCESS e-book and paperbound/4.25 X 6.88 in. Publisher’s page You can buy the book in hard copy from this …

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Donald Gillies, Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault, Routledge, 2013 Publisher’s site Description Drawing from the ideas of Michel Foucault, this book offers a critical examination of today’s dominant discourse of educational leadership. Foucault’s understanding of critique is as a ‘permanent’ ethos in which humans explore the nature of their existence but at the same time …

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Warren Montag, Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War, Duke University Press, 2013 Description Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different periods of Althusser’s career have been made available in French since his death …

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