Foucault News

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

Richard White, Foucault on the Care of the Self as an Ethical Project and a Spiritual Goal, Human Studies 37 (4):489-504 (2014) Further info Abstract In this paper, I examine Foucault’s ideas concerning the care of the self. What exactly is this ideal that Foucault describes in his last two books? Do these books represent …

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Philosophie N° 123 – Foucault : a priori, phénoménologie et histoire de la raison , Editions de minuit Ce numéro consacré à Foucault s’ouvre par un texte de Wouter Goris, “L’a priori historique chez Husserl et Foucault”. Il analyse l’oxymore philosophique qu’est l’a priori historique, dont il retrace l’origine dans le célèbre texte “L’origine de …

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BA.C. (Tina) Besley ‘Finding Foucault’: orders of discourse and cultures of the self (2014) Educational Philosophy and Theory, Volume 47, 2015 – Issue 13-14 https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2014.945510 Abstract The idea of finding Foucault first looks at the many influences on Foucault, including his Nietzschean acclamations. It examines Foucault’s critical history of thought, his work on the orders …

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Karlsen, M.P., Villadsen, K. Foucault, Maoism, Genealogy: The Influence of Political Militancy in Michel Foucault’s Thought (2014) New Political Science, . Article in Press. Abstract Foucault’s inspiration from Nietzsche in terms of writing critical histories is difficult to overestimate. However, this article advances an interpretation of Foucault’s approach to history which focuses on another, less …

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Mobilities and Foucault. Special Issue, Mobilities Volume 9, Issue 4, 2014 Further info Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Mobilities and Foucault’ Katharina Manderscheid, Tim Schwanen & David Tyfield ‘One Must Eliminate the Effects of … Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation’: Foucault and Beyond the Stopping of Mobilities Chris Philo Securing Circulation Through …

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Lanuza, G.M. Agency and Governmentality: The Regulation and resistance of Muslim students in a public high school (2013) Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 13 (2), pp. 63-78. Further info Abstract This paper is an attempt to show how Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality can be used to illustrate the regulation of Muslim students while engaging in …

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Miró-Bonet, M., Bover-Bover, A., Moreno-Mulet, C., Miró-Bonet, R., Zaforteza-Lallemand, C. Genealogy as a critical toolbox: Deconstructing the professional identity of nurses (2014) Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70 (4), pp. 768-776. Abstract Aim: To discuss the Foucauldian concept of genealogy as a framework for understanding and transforming nurses’ professional identity. Background: The professional identity of nurses …

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Marco DÍAZ MARSÁ / Jorge DÁVILA ROJAS, De la historia del pensamiento y de sus principios. Aproximación a Michel Foucault, REVISTA LOGOS. ANALES DEL SEMINARIO DE METAFÍSICA, Vol. 47 2014, pp. 81-109. (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España / Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela) On the History of Thought and its Principles. Approach to Michel …

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Steven Hutchinson, Intelligence, reason of state and the art of governing risk and opportunity in early modern Europe, Economy and Society, Volume 43, Issue 3, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2014.883796 Abstract Drawing upon primary and secondary historical material, this paper explores the role of intelligence in early modern government. It focuses upon developments in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century …

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Call for Papers: Soft Power Third Issue: June 30, 2015 Soft Power: Euro-American Journal of Historical and Theoretical Studies of Politics Soft Power is an inter-disciplinary academic journal published in 2014 by the Grupo Planeta, one of the leading publishers in the Spanish-speaking world. It is supported by the University of Salerno and the Universidad …

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