Foucault News

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

Stephen Ball, Interview with Professor Stephen J. Ball about ethics of intellectual work by Jefferson Mainardes, Práxis Educativa, Ponta Grossa, v. 21, e27091, p. 1-8, 2026 https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.21.27091.062 Open access Interview also available in Portuguese Stephen J. Ball is a British sociologist of education, recognised worldwide as one of the leading figures in the fields of …

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Ian Hunter, Spiritual Exercises in Kantian Philosophy: An Interview with Ian Hunter by Rex Butler, Journal of the History of Ideas blog, 17 August 2026 Ian Hunter is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is an intellectual historian who has published various studies …

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Jeanne Favret-Saada, Continuer Foucault ? , Le Grand Continent, 27 mai 2026 L’historien Patrick Weil s’entretient avec l’anthropologue qui, cinquante ans plus tard, rouvre le cas Rivière. Jeanne Favret-Saada vient de publier un livre événement pour les sciences sociales. Cinquante-trois ans après que Michel Foucault eut dirigé la publication en 1973, dans le cadre d’un …

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Simeon Wade, Michel Foucault in Death Valley: A Boom interview with Simeon Wade by Heather Dundas, Boom California, September 10, 2017 […] One early follower of Foucault’s thinking was Simeon Wade, assistant professor of history at Claremont Graduate School. A native of Texas, Wade moved to California in 1972 after earning his Ph.D. in the …

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Reading Michel Foucault Today: In Conversation with Philipp Sarasin by Mats Inauen,, The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics and Art, 21 July 2026. Philipp Sarasin is emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Zurich and one of the foremost scholars of Michel Foucault in the German-speaking world. Among his many publications are Darwin …

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Patrick Boucheron, The Archaeologist and the Historian: Dialogue with Giorgio Agamben, Translated by Matthew Collins, Journal of Italian Philosophy, Volume 8 (2025), 117 – 123 Open access Original text: Boucheron, P. (2017/1–2), ‘L’archéologue et l’historien. Dialogue avec Giorgio Agamben’, Critique, 836–37, pp. 164–71. Available at https://doi.org/10.3917/criti.836.0164 (accessed 13th August 2024). This conversation between Patrick Boucheron …

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Mark Pennington, Foucault and Liberal Political Economy. Power, Knowledge, and Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2025 Link to digital edition Mark Pennington Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh on the New Books network Description This highly original and innovative book is the first to comprehensively engage the ideas of the French social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault from …

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Tony Bennett on habit, culture as a way of life, Bourdieu, Foucault, and decolonization – podcast (February 2024) The date is not listed on the site Interview with Toby Miller as part of his Cultural Studies podcast interviews Tony Bennett on habit, culture as a way of life, Bourdieu, Foucault, and decolonization You can read …

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Interview/podcast Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth, Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, Hosted by Richard Grijalva, New Books Network, Nov 1, 2023 A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands …

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