Foucault News

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

Vrdoljak, T. Foucault’s Culturalist Axiomatic: A Nietzschean Naturalist Rejoinder (2024) Nietzsche-Studien DOI: 10.1515/nietzstu-2024-0013 Abstract The Nietzsche-Foucault relationship has been the subject of extensive scholarship, highlighting their affinity. In contrast, this paper foregrounds what I take to be their most significant point of divergence: it compares Nietzsche’s naturalist to Foucault’s culturalist axiomatic of power. First, I …

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Gouverner les âmes et les corps « Cahiers d’études du religieux. Recherches interdisciplinaires » * * * Abstract Ce dossier thématique des Cahiers d’études du religieux a pour objet d’interroger la pertinence du concept foucaldien de gouvernementalité en sciences religieuses. Plus précisément, on se demandera s’il s’agit là d’un concept opératoire pour décrire la relation …

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Swiffen, A. From European Roots to Settler Soil: Adapting Foucault’s Biopolitics to Canadian Settler Colonialism (2024) Social and Legal Studies DOI: 10.1177/09646639241288075 Abstract This article examines the applicability of Michel Foucault’s biopolitical theory within the Canadian settler colonial context. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, which describes the shift from sovereign power to the regulation of life …

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Presentación de la edición especial de Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana, Vol. 45 Núm. 131 (2024): Michel Foucault en Latinoamérica: 40 años de ontologías del presente En el marco del World Congress Foucault: 40 years after los coeditores invitados Nelson F. Roberto-Alba y Luis F. Blengino se complacen en presentar a la comunidad académica la edición …

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Eli B. Lichtenstein, “Biopolitics, Carcerality, and Capital in Foucault’s Unfinished Account of the Racial State,” Critical Philosophy of Race (2025) 13, no. 1, 75-94, DOI: doi.org/10.5325/critphilrace.13.1.0075. Abstract: Michel Foucault argued that a key modality of state racism is biopower, through which the life of populations is differentially supported, shaped, and neglected. However, Foucault’s account of …

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Luca Paltrinieri, « « Nombre des hommes » et « populatio » à la fin de la Renaissance : notes sur la généalogie des savoirs démographiques », Astérion [En ligne], 31 | 2024, mis en ligne le 30 janvier 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/asterion/11452 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/138qv Open access Résumé Dans un passage de ses …

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materiali foucaultiani volume XI, numero 21-22 (gennaio-dicembre 2022) Published January 2025 SOMMARIO L’impulsion Nietzsche. sous la direction de Michèle Cohen-Halimi et Orazio Irrera Introduction. « L’impulsion Nietzsche » chez Michel Foucault (pp. 5-10) Michèle Cohen-Halimi et Orazio Irrera Repenser l’espace, pluraliser le temps. La pensée de Nietzsche entre Foucault et l’École des Annales (pp. 11-46) …

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Gabriel Pochapski, Repenser l’espace, pluraliser le temps. La pensée de Nietzsche entre Foucault et l’École des Annales materiali foucaultiani, a. XI, n. 21-22, gennaio-dicembre 2022, pp. 11-46. Issue released in January 2025. Abstract Rethinking space, pluralizing time. Nietzsche’s Thought Between Foucault and the École des Annales This article aims to examine the uses of Nietzsche’s …

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Moreno-Mulet, C., Valdivielso-Navarro, J., Miró-Bonet, M., Carrero-Planells, A., Gastaldo, D. Transgressive Acts: Michel Foucault’s Lessons on Resistance for Nurses (2025) Nursing Philosophy, 26 (1), art. no. e70008 DOI: 10.1111/nup.70008 Abstract In this paper, we bring together Foucault’s biography and oeuvre to explore key concepts that support the analysis of nurses’ acts of resistance. Foucault reflected …

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Hiba, B. If you don’t problematize it, you won’t see it, and you won’t understand it (2025) New Ideas in Psychology, 77, art. no. 101141 DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101141 Abstract This paper critically redefines problematization as both a research method and a transformative approach to critical thinking, positioning it as a pivotal modus operandi that transcends the …

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