Foucault News

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

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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Hannah Lyn Venable – Madness in Experience and History. Interview with Giorgi Vachnadze on the Silence of Savoir channel, October 28 2023 Professor Venable is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Mary. Dr. Venable specializes in History of Philosophy, Continental Philosophy (including Phenomenology, Post-modernism, Recent French philosophy), Aesthetics, Ethics, Philosophy of Psychology and …

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Mark Olssen, Critical global citizenship: Foucault as a complexity thinker, social justice and the challenges of higher education in the era of neo-liberal globalization – A conversation with Mark Olssen, Authors: Emiliano Bosio, Mark Olssen Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Volume 18, Issue Philosophical, Ethical and Pedagogical Visions of Global Citizenship Education: Critical Perspectives from International …

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Daniel Defert, Daniel Defert : archives et actualité d’un legs Entretien avec Éric Fassin, AOC (Analyse Opinion Critique), 17 février 2023 Sociologue, fondateur d’Aides, la première association de lutte contre le sida, Daniel Defert est mort le 7 février 2023. Il fut aussi le compagnon de Michel Foucault, et de son deuil, il a su …

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