Foucault News

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

Un inédit de Michel Foucault publié en mai AFP, 10 mars 2023 Un inédit de Michel Foucault, “Le Discours philosophique”, réflexion sur les rapports entre philosophie et actualité, sera publié le 12 mai, ont annoncé jeudi les éditions du Seuil. Cet essai permettra de lire un manuscrit quasi achevé que le philosophe entama en 1966 …

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Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction and critical apparatus by Daniele Lorenzini & Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, The University of Chicago Press Forthcoming late 2023, early 2024 This volume is part of The Chicago Foucault Project Description (adapted from …

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Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball (eds), Neoliberalism and Education, Routledge, 2023. Forthcoming The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same time transforms how we are made up as educational subjects. It rearticulates what it means …

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Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History, Princeton University Press, 2023 (forthcoming) A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. …

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Andrew Skourdoumbis, Scott Webster, The Epistemological Development of Education. Considering Bourdieu, Foucault and Dewey, Routledge, 2023 forthcoming Book Description This book documents the political and economic ramifications of the policy impetus for a “science of education” and what this means for classroom teachers, their teaching practices and for the field of education. In a critical …

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Michel Foucault, Madness, Language, Literature Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel Translated by Robert Bononno. Chicago University Press, Forthcoming 2023 Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit …

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Michel Foucault, La Question anthropologique. Cours, 1954-1955, EHSS, Gallimard Seuil, 10 juin 2022 Qu’est-ce que l’homme ? Michel Foucault, au mitan des années 1950, consacre une partie de son enseignement, dispensé à l’université de Lille et à l’École normale supérieure, à comprendre comment cette interrogation a traversé et transformé la philosophie. Ces leçons sont rassemblées …

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Jeanne Morefield, Unsettling the World. Edward Said and Political Theory, Forthcoming 2022 Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said’s thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said’s writings on the experience of exile, …

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Claudia Aradau and Tobias Blanke, Algorithmic Reason, The New Government of Self and Other, Oxford University Press, forthcoming May 2022 Open access Provides a critical analysis of algorithmic reason and its impact on key political concepts Adopts a global transdisciplinary perspective on algorithmic operations Explores well-known controversies such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, predictive policing …

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Steven G. Ogden, Violence, Entitlement, and Politics. A Theology on Transforming the Subject, Routledge. Forthcoming September 30, 2021 Book Description This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender-based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement. It addresses gender-based violence in familial and military settings before …

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