Foucault News

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

Kelly, M.G.E. Foucault Contra Honneth: Resistance or Recognition? (2017) Critical Horizons, 18 (3), pp. 214-230. DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2017.1293895 Abstract This article deals with the relationship between the thought of Michel Foucault and that of Axel Honneth, arguing in favour of the former against the latter. I begin by considering Honneth’s early engagement in The Critique of …

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Artières, P. (2017). Michel Foucault « bien entendu ». Critique, 843-844,(8), 690-699. https://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-2017-8-page-690.htm. Premières lignes Dans l’un de ses derniers articles publiés, intitulé initialement « Des espaces autres », Michel Foucault rêvait d’une science nouvelle qu’il nomme l’hétérotopologie ; il s’agissait d’étudier les contre-espaces de nos sociétés, « ses utopies situées, ses lieux réels hors …

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Susanne Gannon, “After the Humidity and Stillness of Yesterday..”: Drifting, Reading, Writing Self and Others, Traveling in Otherwhens and Otherwheres (2017) Qualitative Inquiry, 23 (4), pp. 252-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800416686374 Abstract This article turns to a handwritten travel journal from more than two decades ago to explore how the past might be animated in the present through …

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Michel Foucault « Un très beau feu d’artifice » Critique 2016/12 (n° 835) Présentation En 1978, devant des étudiants californiens, Michel Foucault rêvait à haute voix de « livres bombes » : ils ne tueraient personne, mais « disparaîtraient peu de temps après qu’on les aurait lus ou utilisés ». La philosophie comme Mission impossible …

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Ourahmoune, N. Embodied transformations and food restrictions: The case of medicalized obesity (2017) Journal of Business Research, 75, pp. 192-201. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.07.018 Abstract Weight loss surgery that mechanically restricts consumers’ bodies to limit their food intake is booming in a context of globesity (World Health Organization). Based on a Foucauldian analysis, this study contends that …

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Chauviré, C. (2017). Foucault et Wittgenstein en parallèle. Critique, 845,(10), 848-863. https://www.cairn.info/revue-critique-2017-10-page-848.htm. Premières lignes Vouloir comparer Foucault et Wittgenstein « par-delà les clivages institués » est une louable entreprise, qui semble plus facile ailleurs qu’en France : aux États-Unis, Ian Hacking et Arnold Davidson avaient déjà préparé un tel rapprochement, que ces deux ouvrages collectifs …

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Sergio Resende Carvalho,Ricardo Rodrigues Teixeira, Politics of life itself and the future of medical practices: dialogues with Nikolas Rose (Part 3), Interface – Comunicação, Saúde, Educação On-line version ISSN 1807-5762 Interface (Botucatu) vol.21 no.60 Botucatu Jan./Mar. 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-57622016.0848 Extract This is the third and last interview with Nikolas Rose which we sought to explore important …

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Special Section: Foucault and religion: Critical engagements (2017), Critical Research on Religion, Volume 5, Issue 2, August 2017 Contents A genealogy of critique: From parrhesia to prophecy Tom Boland, Paul Clogher First Published February 10, 2017; pp. 116–132 Reexamining Foucault on confession and obedience: Peter Schaefer’s Radical Pietism as counter-conduct Elisa Heinämäki First Published May …

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Stevens, Jeremy and Fuller, Glen. Journalistic challenges of the public and private: Exploring professional and ethical norms [online]. Australian Journalism Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Jul 2017: 113-125. Authors’ note: This article develops the idea of ‘commentary as method’. ‘Commentary’ is derived from Foucault’s Discourse on Language and related texts and reworked into a method …

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Roberts, J.L. Obsessional subjectivity in societies of discipline and control (2017) Theory and Psychology, 27 (5), pp. 622-642. DOI: 10.1177/0959354317716308 Abstract Drawing on the work of the later Foucault, especially that concerning disciplinary power and bio-power, as well as Deleuze on the emergence of “societies of control,” this article traces the trajectory of obsessional subjectivity …

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