Foucault News

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

Réal Fillion, Freedom, Responsibility, and the ‘American Foucault’, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Volume: 30 issue: 1, page(s): 115-126 January 1, 2004 https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453704039400 Abstract Foucault’s work is rich enough to sustain multiple readings. I argue in this paper for the continued construction and maintenance of what I have called the ‘American Foucault’, whose principal preoccupation is …

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Alexandre Lefebvre, The End of a Line: Care of the Self in Modern Political Thought Genealogy 2017, 1(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy1010002 Open access Abstract This article examines the reasons why Foucault thought that morality based on the care of the self died out in the modern age. I pay special attention to his contention that modern …

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Sverre Raffnsøe, Peter Miller, Andrea Mennicken: “The Foucault Effect in Organization Studies”, Organization Studies, First Published December 14, 2017 DOI: 10.1177/0170840617745110 Abstract Since the establishment of Organization Studies in 1980, Michel Foucault’s oeuvre has had a remarkable and continuing influence on its field. This article traces the different ways in which organizational scholars have engaged …

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Olga Campbell-Thomson, The Soviet Reception of Selma Lagerlöf, NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research Vol. 25 , Iss. 4, 2017 DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2017.1362590 Abstract The focus of this paper is Selma Lagerlöf’s literary presence in Soviet Russia. Despite being one of the most translated and published foreign authors in pre-revolutionary times, Lagerlöf made …

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Craig Owen, Nicola De Martini Ugolotti, (2017), ‘Pra homem, menino e mulher’? Problematizing the gender inclusivity discourse in capoeira, International Review for the Sociology of Sport , 54(6), 691-710. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690217737044 Blog post on article by Craig Owen This paper uses Foucault’s understanding of power and discourse as the main theoretical focus. Abstract Capoeira is an …

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Pezdek, K., Rasiński, L. Between exclusion and emancipation: Foucault’s ethics and disability (2017) Nursing Philosophy, 18 (2), art. no. e12131, . DOI: 10.1111/nup.12131 Abstract The aim of the study was to demonstrate how Foucault’s ethics, which we understand as a tension between exclusion and emancipation, helps both critically reassess two disability models that prevail in …

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Birman, J. & Hoffmann, C. (2016). Lacan et Foucault, une nouvelle lecture. La clinique lacanienne, 28,(2), 155-166. doi:10.3917/cla.028.0155. Premières lignes Les rapports entre Jacques Lacan et Michel Foucault sont plus riches qu’on le pense habituellement en rencontres entre les deux hommes et leurs œuvres. Une grande partie des malentendus provient de la différence de conceptions …

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Zembylas, M. Affect and counter-conduct: cultivating action for social change in human rights education (2017) Discourse, pp. 1-13. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2017.1300573 Abstract This paper explores the entanglement between two partially connected concerns that offer the potential to animate current discussions on human rights teaching and learning: ‘affect’ and ‘counter-conduct’. Both terms are at …

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Kevin S. Jobe, Foucault and the Telos of Power (2017) Critical Horizons, 18 (3), pp. 191-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2017.1293888 Abstract In this paper, I argue that the unique contributions of Foucault’s late work to critical social theory can be identified in the ways in which power relations are refined as the material condition of “politics” as distinguished …

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