Foucault News

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

Elisabetta Basso, Michel Foucault, Le confessioni della carne. Storia della sessualità 4, edizione stabilita da F. Gros, trad. it. di D. Borca, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019, Alverium, Anno XIII, n. 13 – dicembre 2020 Open access La pubblicazione nel 2018 di Les aveux de la chair (Paris, Gallimard), l’ultima opera composta da Michel Foucault prima della …

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Sara Raimondi, Method to the madness: Reading Foucault between geometry and brackets. Contemporary Political Theory (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-022-00549-6 Open access Essay review Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros, Columbia University Press, New York, 2020, xii+265pp., ISBN: 978- 0-2311-9714-4 Gregg Lambert, The Elements of Foucault, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2020, 143pp., ISBN: 978-1-5179-0877-5 It is a prolific …

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Schubert, Karsten. (2021). The Christian Roots of Critique. How Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh Sheds New Light on the Concept of Freedom and the Genealogy of the Modern Critical Attitude. Le Foucaldien, 7, 2. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.98 Abstract Finally published 34 years after his death, Foucault’s book Confessions of the Flesh sheds new light on the debate about freedom and power that …

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William Davies, Theory wars: how postmodernism became weaponised, New Statesman, 10 November 2021. How did a philosophical movement embracing consumer culture become a target for today’s anti-woke brigade? Postmodernism, as the journalist Stuart Jeffries demonstrates in Everything, All the Time, Everywhere, is a tricky phenomenon to describe. The term is usually assumed to originate in …

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“Do Not Ask Me Who I Am” Foucault and neoliberalism, The Point Magazine, June 2 2021 We just can’t seem to shake Foucault. The French philosopher, loathed or loved, has not dimmed in significance since his death of AIDS in 1984. In many ways the patron saint of contemporary humanistic inquiry, Michel Foucault’s work remains …

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Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberal by Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times. 24 May 2021 Review of The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution By Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora, Verso, 2021 In 1978 and 1979, the French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of …

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 The first part of this edited collection reflected on Foucault as a reader of Marx.  In the book’s second part, five essays respond to the various Marxisms of the 19th-20th centuries and how Foucault situated his own research in relation to them. The first essay maps Foucault’s writings alongside developments in…

Guillaume Le Blanc, Why read Foucault’s Confessions of the Flesh today? (french version), Critique 13/13, Seminars at Columbia, Nov 30 2019 Que pouvons-nous trouver dans un texte sur la sexualité chrétienne qui aurait dû paraître en 1982 voire en 1984 et qui finalement ne le sera qu’en 2018 ? Étrange situation puisque nous lisons ce livre …

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Duncan Kelly, Foucault investigates, Times Literary Supplement, MAY 17, 2017 Duncan Kelly on the prodigious output of a writer who has influenced disciplines from classics to politics to psychology Review Michel Foucault OEUVRES, I & II, Edited by Frédéric Gros et al. In 1970, after various appointments in France, Germany, Poland, Sweden and Tunisia, the …

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