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, …
David Galston, Archives and the Event of God: The Impact of Michel Foucault on Philosophical Theology (Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2011). Review Description The philosophical works of Michel Foucault have profoundly influenced many disciplines, but his influence on theology has seldom been considered. Archives and the Event of God unravels the effects that Foucault’s Archaeology …
Michel Foucault The Courage of Truth, Series: Michel Foucault: Lectures at the Collège de France, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 The course given by Michel Foucault from February to March 1984, under the title The Courage of Truth, was his last at the Collège de France. His death shortly after, on June 25th, tempts us to detect …
Anders Fogh Jensen and Rasmus Svarre Hansen, Cartographier le pouvoir: Foucault et Bourdieu Cartographier le pouvoir est un livre illustré qui tente de reformuler les théories de Foucault et de Bourdieu dans une langue simple et au moyen de dessins expressifs. The Cartography of Power is a picture book which recounts Foucault and Bourdieu’s theories …
Timothy O’Leary and Christopher Falzon (eds.), Foucault and Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 259pp, ISBN 9781405189606. Description Foucault and Philosophy presents a collection of essays from leading international philosophers and Foucault scholars that explore Foucault’s work as a philosopher in relation to philosophers who were important to him and in the context of important themes and problems …
Security, Life and Death: Governmentality and Biopower in the Post-9/11 Era CALL FOR PAPERS: For an edited collection of scholarly papers on the above topic to be published with de Sitter Publications. Editor: Claudio Colaguori, PhD. York University Theorizations of power through a Foucaultian conceptual paradigm continue to predominate analyses of the present geo-political order. …
Gary Gutting, Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960, The Oxford History of Philosophy, 978-0-19-922703-7 | Hardback | 10 March 2011 Review in The Guardian Description The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging, historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of …
Niesche, R. (2011). Foucault and Educational Leadership: Disciplining the Principal. London: Routledge. Link to publisher’s site Description This book draws on a number of Foucault’s concepts to explore how school principals are created as subjects through their work practices and various educational leadership discourses. Foucault’s work is useful for provoking new thought into how the …
Jean-François Bert, Introduction à Michel Foucault, Editions La Découverte (6 janvier 2011) Sommaire Michel Foucault (1926-1984) aura été en France le plus novateur des maîtres à penser, maître par défaut, sans programme articulé, qui a su pourtant offrir à ses nombreux lecteurs issus des disciplines les plus variées une « boîte à outils » qu’il …
Didier Eribon, Michel Foucault, Paris: Champs-Flammarion, Revised edition, 2011. Details on Didier Eribon’s blog. See also an interview with Eribon on the occasion of the publication of this revised version A new and revised edition of Eribon’s 1989 biography of Foucault has been published. This new edition includes a piece written by Pierre Bourdieu on …
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