Foucault News

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

Santos, Filipe D. (2011). “Foucault and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject – Edited by A. Fejes & K. Nicoll Book Reviews”. Educational philosophy and theory, 43 (8), pp. 898-900. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00699.x Review of A. Fejes & K. Nicoll (eds) Foucault and Lifelong Learning, Governing the Subject, Routledge, 2008. Extract This book is the first dedicated solely …

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Histoire de la folie : 50 ans Le Centre Michel Foucault, en co-édition avec l’IMEC et les Presses Universitaires de Caen proposent deux ouvrages: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1961-2011. Textes choisis et présentés par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Luca Paltrinieri, Judith Revel, Mathieu …

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Diogo Sardinha, Ordre et temps dans la philosophie de Foucault, Préface d’Etienne Balibar, L’Harmattan, La philosophie en commun, ISBN : 978-2-296-56327-8 • septembre 2011 • 252 pages. Book available in paperback or ebook Pdf of further details, cover and table of contents L’oeuvre de Foucault apparaît comme une succession d’études dispersées, plus que comme un …

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Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, Human Nature: Justice vs Power. The Chomsky-Foucault debate, Edited by Fons Elders A new edition of this work released with a new introduction by Fons Elders: In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the twentieth century’s most influential public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel …

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Michael Dillon and Andrew W Neal (Eds.), Foucault on Politics, Security and War. Palgrave Macmillan. January 2011. Description This diverse collection of essays is the first to specifically engage Michel Foucault on questions of politics, security and war. It is also the first to take up the provocations found in Michel Foucault’s recently published Collège …

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Anthony Merino, Politics of Perception: Post-Foucauldian Ceramics [Kindle Edition] Tony Dubis-Merino (Illustrator), Pam Luke (Editor) , 2011 Description Whether due to his insight or influence, Foucault’s mixture of cynicism, paranoia and obsession with power mirrors our current cultural zeitgeist. His thoughts resonate on both thin edges of the American political thought. On the left, consider …

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Anne Schwan, Stephen Shapiro, How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, London: Pluto Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780745329819 Description Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro’s excellent …

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Ben Golder, Review of Foucault’s Monsters and the Challenge of Law, Abingdon: Routledge , 2010 by Andrew Sharpe, The Modern Law Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, July 2011, pp 639–642. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663912463631c Review Andrew Sharpe has written a very erudite and impeccably serious book about monsters. However, Sharpe’s thought-provoking book is not so much about the …

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Elly Tams/Quiet Riot Girl, Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. The Girl Who Wasn’t There Novel for download from author’s site. Published: June 29, 2011 Category: Fiction » Literature » Erotica Short Description Imagine if the great, French, homosexual philosopher, Michel Foucault, had in fact had a daughter… This is the story of the girl who wasn’t …

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From the Philosophy’s Other blog Taylor, Dianna, ed. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts. Chesham: Acumen, 2011. Review by Cynthia Coe Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century’s most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, …

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