Foucault News

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

Cseke, Á. (2019). Au sujet de l’édition de Michel Foucault, Le courage de la vérité. Quelques remarques du traducteur hongrois. Le Foucaldien, 5(1), 2. DOI: 10.16995/lefou.58 Open access. Article in French Abstract This article examines the text edition of the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France before his death in …

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Vladislav Suvák (2019) Patočka and Foucault: Taking Care of the Soul and Taking Care of the Self, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 50:1, 19-36, DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2018.1495402 ABSTRACT The paper deals with Jan Patočka’s and Michel Foucault’s influential interpretations of the ancient Greek approach to care (epimeleia). At first sight, it might seem that …

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Michel Foucault: Um pensamento em movimento, Revista de filosofia Aurora, V. 31, N. 52 (2019) SUMÁRIO Editorial Léo Peruzzo Júnior, Cesar Candiotto, Antonio Valverde DOSSIÊ De Foucault à Butler, en passant par Sartre : l’impossibilité du « nous » ? Philippe Sabot Crítica e coalizão: repensar a resistência com Foucault e Butler André Duarte, Maria …

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Ralf Havertz, Right-Wing Populism and Neoliberalism in Germany: The AfD’s Embrace of Ordoliberalism (2019) New Political Economy, 24 (3), pp. 385-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2018.1484715 Abstract This article analyses the ambiguous relation between right-wing populism and neoliberalism in Germany. It concentrates on the connections between and convergence of right-wing populism and ordoliberalism, a specific type of neoliberalism that …

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Whyte, J. The invisible hand of Friedrich Hayek: Submission and spontaneous order (2019) Political Theory, 47 (2), pp. 156-184. DOI: 10.1177/0090591717737064 Abstract Friedrich Hayek’s account of “spontaneous order” has generated increasing interest in recent decades. His argument for the superiority of the market in distributing knowledge without the need for central oversight has appealed to …

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Valerie Harwood and Nyssa Murray, Strategic discourse production and parent involvement: including parent knowledge and practices in the Lead My Learning campaign (2019) International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23 (4), pp. 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2019.1571119 Abstract Parent involvement in a child’s education is usually viewed as integral for building educational participation. Critical work has examined the complexity …

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Myles, D., Cherba, M., Millerand, F. Situating Ethics in Online Mourning Research: A Scoping Review of Empirical Studies, (2019) Qualitative Inquiry, 25 (3), pp. 289-299. DOI: 10.1177/1077800418806599 Abstract In the past decade, social media have put mourning practices at the forefront of daily life in ways that challenge assumptions made about the public disclosure of …

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Frost, T. The dispositif between Foucault and Agamben (2019) Law, Culture and the Humanities, 15 (1), pp. 151-171. DOI: 10.1177/1743872115571697 Abstract This article interrogates the specter of resistance in the writings of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, arguing they open up divergent ways of theorizing resistance to power. This article’s focus is on both philosophers’ …

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Vicente L. Rafael (2019), The Sovereign Trickster, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 78, No. 1 (February) 2019: 141–166. doi:10.1017/S0021911818002656 Abstract In our current moment, authoritarian figures loom large. One of them is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. He seems to embody two notions of sovereignty. One is related to law, the other to norms: on …

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Susan L. Johnson, Workplace bullying, biased behaviours and performance review in the nursing profession: A qualitative study (2019) Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28 (9-10), pp. 1528-1537. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14758 Abstract Aims and objectives: To explore staff nurses’ discourses of workplace bullying, to critically examine how these discourses affect their responses to bullying. Background: Workplace bullying has been …

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