Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault (2013) Speech begins after death, University of Minnesota Press. $24.95 cloth/jacket ISBN 978-0-8166-8320-8 96 pages, 5 x 8, March 2013 In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing …

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Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’, An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2013 Book Description This is a step-by-step guide to Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge. In the first volume of his History of Sexuality, The Will to Knowledge, Foucault weaves …

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Colin Koopman, Genealogy as Critique:Foucault and the Problems of Modernity, Indiana University Press, Series: American Philosophy Publication date: 2/25/2013 Format: paper 362 pages ISBN: 978-0-253-00621-9 Author’s blog Description Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique …

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Ludwig Binswanger, Rêve et existence, Paris : Vrin, « Bibliothèque des Textes Philosophiques – Poche », 2013. Traduction par Françoise Dastur, Postface d’Elisabetta Basso, 120 p., 11 × 18 cm. ISBN : 978-2-7116-2454-6 Rêve et existence occupe une place tout à fait singulière à l’intérieur du corpus binswangerien, de ce vaste ensemble d’articles, conférences et …

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Jeremy W. Crampton, Stuart Elden (Eds.), Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography, London: Ashgate (now Routledge – 2025), November 2012 (E.book, Illustrated edition) Previous Ed: paperback February 2007; hardback February 2007. I have also uploaded the more attractive original book cover for this post Michel Foucault’s work is rich with implications and insights concerning …

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CALL FOR CHAPTERS – BOOK PROJECT TITLE “New Perspectives on Discourse and Governmentality” Paul McIlvenny Julia Zhukova Klausen Laura Bang Lindegaard at the Centre for Discourses in Transition (C-DiT), Aalborg University, Denmark CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS We seek contributions for an edited book of empirical studies that illustrate new perspectives on governmentality from the point of …

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Luca Paltrinieri, L’expérience du concept : Michel Foucault, entre épistémologie et histoire, Publications de la Sorbonne, Collection : La philosophie à l’oeuvre, 2012 ISBN-10: 2859447067 ISBN-13: 978-2859447069 pdf flyer Présentation de l’éditeur Ce livre ne s’intéresse – en aucune manière – à ce que Foucault a dit. Et son auteur n’essaie ni de déceler la …

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Jean-François Favreau, Vertige de l’écriture: Michel Foucault et la littérature (1954-1970), Lyon: ENS Editions, coll. “Signes”, 2012. further info and review review Présentation de l’éditeur : Quels rapports Michel Foucault entretenait-il avec l’espace littéraire ? Cet essai interroge la trajectoire qui le conduit d’un intérêt périphérique (dans les années cinquante) à une préoccupation centrale (dans les années …

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Valerie Nicolet-Anderson, Constructing the Self: Thinking with Paul and Michel Foucault, Tubingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2012. ISBN 978-3-16-151699-3 Using some of the works of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) as a conversation partner, Valérie Nicolet-Anderson focuses on the manner in which Paul constructs the identity of his audience in his letter to the Romans. In particular, she analyzes …

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Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights Edited by Ben Golder, Routledge Published 24th October 2012 by Routledge – 264 pages Publisher’s page Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights is the first collection in English fully to address the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for law. Foucault is the best known and most cited …

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