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, University of Chicago Press 296 pages, © 2013 Publisher’s page Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained …
pdf flyer Michel Foucault, Mal faire, dire vrai. La fonction de l’aveu en justice Édition établie par Fabienne Brion et Bernard E. Harcourt, Presses universitaires de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (2012) Co-éditeur : University of Chicago Press ISBN : 978-2-87558-040-5 382 pages L’ouvrage Aux mois d’avril et de mai 1981, Michel Foucault prononce un cours qu’il intitule …
Jacques Rancière The Intellectual and His People. Staging the People Volume 2 Verso, 2012 Review by Steven Poole, ‘Non-fiction reviews roundup’, The Guardian, 29 June 2012 The agitator for a “people’s theatre” seeks “to moralise the people through the spread of art”; the sociologist claims to be the only one able to see what is, …
Domingo Fernández Agis & Ángela Sierra González (eds.), La Biopolítica en el mundo actual. Reflexiones sobre el Efecto Foucault, Barcelona: Laertes, 2012, 204 p. (ISBN: 978-84-7584-874-7) En su origen, la aplicación del concepto de biopolítica como directriz pragmática está vinculada a una interpretación organicista del Estado, que considera a este un todo orgánico susceptible de …
Lauri Siisiäinen, Foucault & the Politics of Hearing. Routledge, July 2012 Publisher’s page Description The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault’s thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet …
A note on Philippe Chevallier’s Michel Foucault et le christianisme by Colin Gordon, July 2012 See here for details of the book Philippe Chevallier’s Michel Foucault et le christianisme was published in France by ENS Editions last December. Foucault’s recently, and imminently to be published work (notably the 1984, 1980 and Louvain lectures) are adding …
Anne Brunon-Ernst, Utilitarian Biopolitics: Bentham, Foucault and Modern Power, Routledge, 2012 Description The works of Foucault and Bentham have been regularly examined in isolation and in reference to Panopticon; or The Inspection House (1791), yet rarely has the relationship between the two philosophers been explored further. This study traces the full breadth of that relationship …
Collectif, « Michel Foucault. Entre sujet et révolte », Revue du MAUSS, 12 juin 2012 [en ligne]. Available for pdf download Qu’a-t-on fait historiquement des fous et des folles, des pauvres et des malades ? Pourquoi faut-il constamment dire et se dire « qui » on est ? Comment gouverne-t-on ? À quel type de …
From the Ashgate Publishing blog. The book edited by Anne Brunon Ernst Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon (details posted earlier on this blog) has been awarded ‘research-essential’ status by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services. In the introduction to Beyond Foucault Anne Brunon-Ernst includes a quote from Foucault: Bentham is more important for the understanding of …
Jeffrey P. Bishop, The Anticipatory Corpse. Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, University of Notre Dame Press. 440p $35 Description In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our …
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