Foucault News

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

Le philosophe Frédéric Gros : “On est dans une période où on ne cesse de nous faire accepter l’inacceptable”. Entretien et podcast par Emma-Louise Krief et Pascal Claude, RTBF Actus, 10 octobre 2026 Être propriétaire, est-ce avoir tous les droits sur ce qui nous appartient ? Dans “Violence de la propriété” (Albin Michel), Frédéric Gros …

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Michael C. Behrent, Foucault at a Hundred, Interviewed by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Coomonweal, October 15, 2026 This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential French philosophers of the past fifty years. He is probably best known for his studies of madness, prisons, and sexuality (Madness and Civilization, …

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Michel Foucault: Historien de la vérité Announcement on the Centre Michel Foucault Facebook page. Today is the 100th anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth. To mark the occasion, we are happy to publish on our website the original French version of a documentary that aired in 1978 on RSI, consisting of a long and remarkably rich …

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Didier Fassin : « Dans le libéralisme, Michel Foucault s’intéressait à l’art de ne pas trop gouverner » Entretien avec Naïri Nahapétian, Alternatives Economiques, 15 octobre 2026 Paywalled article En 1978 et 1979, dans ses cours au Collège de France, Michel Foucault, dont on célèbre aujourd’hui le centenaire de la naissance, effectue un détour inattendu …

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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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