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 …
Call for Papers The imperfect Historian: Disability Histories in Europe «I’m not a professional historian, but nobody is perfect» Michel Foucault, University of Vermont, 27 October 1982 Just like gender, race and class, disability has become a standard analytical category in the historian’s tool chest nowadays. Up until now Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky’s book …
Paul Taborsky, The Logic of Cultures – Three structures of philosophical thought (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010). Description This book proposes to identify three long-term structures in causal reasoning – in particular, in terms of the relationship between cause and identity – that appear to be of value in categorizing and organizing various trends in philosophical …
James Miller, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January, 2011 James Miller is the author of one of the biographies of Foucault: The Passion of Michel Foucault From Booklist Miller combines short biographies and compact synopses of 12 philosophers’ ideas of wisdom. In a format suiting those intrigued by …
Judith Revel, Foucault, une pensée du discontinu, Paris, Fayard, 2010. Description La pensée de Michel Foucault désoriente : considérée parfois comme celle d’un philosophe, parfois encore comme celle d’un historien ou d’un critique de la culture, elle ne cesse de déplacer ses choix méthodologiques, ses champs d’enquête et son outillage conceptuel ; elle surprend par …
Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Description Voici la transcription de la première année des cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France. Sa publication marquera une date dans la « réception » de Foucault. On ne pourra plus …
