Timothy Campbell, Adam Sitze (eds.), Biopolitics: A Reader, Duke University Press, 2013 Description This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical—the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body—is not surprising …
David R. Howarth, Poststructuralism and After: Structure, Subjectivity and Power Palgrave Macmillan, October 2013 ISBN: 978-1-137-26697-2, ISBN10: 1-137-26697-X Poststructuralism and After provides a comprehensive, innovative and lucid account of contemporary poststructuralist theory, which probes its limits, explores rival theoretical approaches, and elaborates new concepts and logics. The book distils and articulates the basic philosophical assumptions …
Peter Sloterdijk, Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault, Translated by Thomas Dunlap with a foreword by Creston Davis. Columbia University Press, 2013 Publisher’s page Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world’s most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in …
Damien Boquet, Blaise Dufal, Pauline Labey (éd.), Une histoire au présent. Les historiens et Michel Foucault, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2013 Publisher’s page Further info on Les émotions au Moyen Âge site Cette réflexion de Jacques Léonard doit être prise au sérieux. Cinquante ans après la parution de l’Histoire de la folie et alors que s’achève …
Daniele Lorenzini, Ariane Revel & Arianna Sforzini (eds.) Michel Foucault : éthique et vérité (1980-1984), Paris, Vrin, coll. « Problèmes & Controverses », 2013 Les recherches menées par Foucault au cours des années quatre-vingt demeurent, à beaucoup d’égards, indécidables. Doit-on parler, à leur propos, d’un retour aux questions classiques du sujet, de la morale, de …
Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil, Éditions Points 05 Décembre 2013, 356 pages. Frédéric Gros, Foucault et « la société punitive », Pouvoirs, 2010/4 n° 135, pp.5-14 Résumé Foucault prononce en 1973 un cours au Collège de France intitulé « La société punitive ». Ce cours, …
Amy Allen, The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2007. This has just been newly published in paperback. Publisher’s page Draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Seyla Benhabib, and others The book is both an analysis of power and an …
Nancy Luxon, Crisis of Authority. Politics, Trust, and Truth-Telling in Freud and Foucault, Cambridge University Press, 2013 Description Contemporary social and political theory has reached an impasse about a problem that had once seemed straightforward: how can individuals make ethical judgments about power and politics? Crisis of Authority analyzes the practices that bind authority, trust, …
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Having put together rough drafts of chapters 1 and 2 (see previous update), I was now able to move to the real focus of the book. But there is no simple break, and even as I go onto these chapters there was some material from previous courses that was best discussed…
Diogo Sardinha, L’Emancipation de Kant à Deleuze, Hermann éditeurs des sciences et des arts, Collection / Série : Hermann Philosophie, 2013 248 pages ; 21,00 x 14,00 cm ISBN 978-2-7056-8757-1 Sommaire Plus que jamais, sans doute, nous avons besoin de stratégies critiques pour l’émancipation. Or, lisant la philosophie des deux derniers siècles, on découvre les …
