Foucault News

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

Nicolas Thirion, Des rapports entre droit et vérité selon Foucault : une illustration des interactions entre les pratiques juridiques et leur environnement, Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques, 2013/1 (Volume 70), 180-88. Further info and PDF for download Abstract La contribution est consacrée à la présentation synthétique de deux ouvrages récemment parus transcrivant la parole délivrée par …

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Gabriel Hürlimann, Hobbes, Foucault et la peur de la révolte, Rue Descartes 2013/1 (n° 77), 52-68 Further info and full article Sommaire Traduit de l’allemand par Ariane Kiatibian Dans cet article, une lecture foucaldienne du Léviathan de Hobbes nous permettra de soutenir la thèse selon laquelle un examen attentif de l’argument contractualiste de Hobbes en …

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Mark Muhannad Ayyash, The paradox of political violence (2013) European Journal of Social Theory, 16 (3), pp. 342-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431013476567 Abstract This article explores the paradoxical relationship between politics and violence in the concept of political violence. By examining the works of prominent theorists, such as Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon, the article highlights both the …

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Verena Erlenbusch, The place of sovereignty: Mapping power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault (2013) Critical Horizons, 14 (1), pp. 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1179/15685160X13A.0000000003 Abstract This article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. By unpacking Foucault’s genealogy of modern governmentality, it responds to a criticism …

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Lorenzini, Daniele. “What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?” Le foucaldien 1, no. 1 (2015): 1–5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.2 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.] Originally published online 28 October 2013 Open access Abstract In this paper, I offer an overview of the ways in which Foucault defines and uses the concept of ‘regime of …

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Andreas Kotsakis, ‘Change and Subjectivity in International Environmental Law: The Micro-Politics of the Transformation of Biodiversity into Genetic Gold’, Transnational Environmental Law 2013. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S204710251300054X Abstract There is no hope for international environmental law to be an engine for global social change when it can no longer provide a compelling account of itself. This article presents …

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Natalie Depraz, De Husserl à Foucault : la restitution pratique de la phénoménologie, Les Études philosophiques, 2013/3 (n° 106), 333-344. https://doi.org/10.3917/leph.133.0333 Resumé Mon objectif dans cette contribution est d’explorer la pratique phénoménologique en jeu au sein même des descriptions de Michel Foucault. Un tel travail dépasse la portée d’un examen unique et ponctuel et supposerait …

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Sonja K. Pieck, “To be led differently”: Neoliberalism, road construction, and NGO counter-conducts in Peru (2013) Geoforum. Volume 64, 2015, Pages 304-313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.06.011 Abstract This essay explores how neoliberal governance is being contested, adapted, and engaged by Peruvian NGOs responding to the Interoceanic Highway, a large infrastructure project in southern Peru. The road is an …

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Peter-Paul Verbeek, Resistance is futile: Toward a non-modern democratization of technology, (2013) Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 17 (1), pp. 72-92. https://doi.org/10.5840/techne20131715 Abstract Andrew Feenberg’s political philosophy of technology uniquely connects the neo-Marxist tradition with phenomenological approaches to technology. This paper investigates how this connection shapes Feenberg’s analysis of power. Influenced by De Certeau …

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Michalinos Zembylas, Derrida, Foucault and critical pedagogies of friendship in conflict-troubled societies (2013) Discourse. 36(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2013.812341 Abstract The aim of this paper is to place Derrida’s and Foucault’s ideas on friendship in conversation and then discuss how those ideas provide a pedagogical space in which critical educators in conflict-troubled societies can promote new modes …

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