Foucault News

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

Jonathan Tran, Foucault and Theology, Bloomsbury, 2011 Description Near the end of his life, Michel Foucault turned his attention to the early church Fathers. He did so not for anything like a return to God but rather because he found in those sources alternatives for re-imaging the self. And though Foucault never seriously entertained Christianity …

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Jonathan Lyons, Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism, Columbia University Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-231-15894-7 Description Despite the West’s growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas …

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Tucker, Elizabeth (2011). Review “Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others Who Changed Tense”. The Journal of American folklore (0021-8715), 124 (491), pp. 119-20. Review of Bruce Jackson, Late Friends: Remembering Michel Foucault, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Wassily Leontief, Alan Lomax, William Kunstler and Others …

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Lloyd, Vincent. (2011). “Violence: Religious, Theological, Ontological”. Review of The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict by William T. Cavanaugh Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009″. Theory, culture & society, 28 (5), pp. 144-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/026327641139930 Abstract Violence may be productively understood as a secularized theological concept. Doing so challenges claims …

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Lucian Popescu, Foucault, cunoasterea si istoria, Editura Institutul European Publisher’s page Pdf of abstract in English Extract from Abstract in English Foucault, Knowledge, and History This synthesis on Foucault’s ideas and subjects (author, discourse, sexuality, madness, technologies, methods of writing and representing knowledge, power-knowledge etc.) presents a new way of understanding knowledge, power, history beyond …

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Claire Blencowe, Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Description Biopolitical Experience offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitics – situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book …

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Martina Tazzioli, Politiche della verità. Michel Foucault e il neoliberalismo Ombre Corte, 2011 Si può parlare di una funzione critica del liberalismo inteso come “stile governamentale” e non (solo) come tecnologia di potere? Fino a che punto, tuttavia, è possibile mantenere quest’attitudine critica dal momento che il liberalismo contemporaneo si struttura in un “regime di …

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Tony Schirato, Geoff Danaher and Jen Webb, Understanding Foucault: A critical introduction, 2nd edition, Allen and Unwin. Available March 2012 Publisher’s page Michel Foucault is now regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He is known for his sensibility of critique and his commitment to movements for social change. His …

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Philippe Chevallier (2011) Michel Foucault et le christianisme, ENS Éditions ISBN-10 2-84788-325-8 ISBN-13 978-2-84788-325-1 ISSN 1765-8128 pdf flyer Résumé Des premiers rites baptismaux à la confession moderne, les références au christianisme sont constantes dans l’œuvre de Michel Foucault. Cette constance s’inscrit dans un questionnement philosophique plus large sur notre actualité : comprendre le rapport que …

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Michel Foucault, Le beau danger. Un entretien de Michel Foucault avec Claude Bonnefoy Édition établie et présentée par Philippe Artières Novembre 2011 – Ed. EHESS – Coll. Audiographie Pour la première fois publié, cet entretien de Michel Foucault avec le critique d’art Claude Bonnefoy nous révèle le penseur intime, qui déroule le fil de sa …

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