Foucault News

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

Jason Maxwell, Killing Yourself to Live: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Autoimmunity Paradigm, Cultural Critique, Number 88, Fall 2014, pp. 160-186 10.1353/cul.2014.0038 Further info In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Since the English translation first appeared in 2008, Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics has become an object of …

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Mitchell Dean, Michel Foucault’s ‘apology’ for neoliberalism. Lecture delivered at the British Library on the 30th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault, June 25, 2014, Journal of Political Power, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2014, pages 433-442 Further info Link to full paper on academia.edu Abstract This lecture evaluates the claim made by one of …

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Ahmad Mohammed Bani Salameh, Foucault’s Descending Individuation: The Unprivileged Under Panoptic Gaze in Shakespeare and Godwin, Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, Vol 41, No 3 (2014) Update October 2025: Journal site not connecting. Link above is to the listing of the article on ResearchGate Abstract This paper presents new critical insights into two selected literary …

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Thomas J. Catlaw, Recovering Ethical-Political Action in Government: An Introduction to the Symposium — Foucault’s Last Lectures and Their Implications for Public Administration, Administrative Theory & Praxis, 36(2), 2014, 157-174 Further info Abstract: An introduction is presented in which the author discusses articles within the issue on topics including democratic political theory of political theorist …

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Rosie Meade, Foucault’s Concept of Counter-Conduct and the Politics of Anti-Austerity Protest in Ireland, Concept: The journal of contemporary community education practice theory, vol 5, no. 3, 2014 Further info and link to full PDF Abstract Since the announcement of the Irish recession in 2008, there has been much media and popular speculation regarding the …

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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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