Foucault News

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

Special Issue Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 43, 2012 Presentación Laura Quintana y Carlos Manrique Editorial Foucault’s Critique of Political Reason: Individualization and Totalization Paolo Savoia La palabra transgresiva y la otra vida: de la literatura al gesto cínico (entre Foucault y Raúl Gómez Jattin) Carlos Manrique De la subjetivación política. Althusser/Rancière/Foucault/Arendt/Deleuze Etienne Tassin Singularización …

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Sayer, A. Power, causality and normativity: A critical realist critique of Foucault, Journal of Political Power, Volume 5, Issue 2, August 2012, Pages 179-194 https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2012.698898 Abstract A critical realist account is developed of two aspects of the study of power which are normally left implicit: the theory of causation presupposed and the way in which …

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Isin, E.F. Citizens without nations, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Volume 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 450-467 https://doi.org/10.1068/d19210 Abstract To broach the question of whether citizenship could exist without (or beyond) community, this paper discusses genealogies of citizenship as membership that binds an individual to the com- munity of birth (of the self …

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Kaden, D.A., Foucault, feminism, and liberationist religion: Discourse, power, and the politics of interpretation in the feminist emancipatory project of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Neotestamentica, Volume 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-104 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43048846 Abstract The work of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ESF) has been celebrated as a significant and ground-breaking contribution to the fields of biblical and …

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Eve, M.P. Whose line is it anyway?: Enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon, Textual Practice, Volume 26, Issue 5, 1 October 2012, Pages 921-939 Further info Abstract This piece effects a critical revision of the interactions between late Foucault and the works of Thomas Pynchon through the theme of Enlightenment, …

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Michael Guilfoyle, Towards a grounding of the agentive subject in narrative therapy, Theory & Psychology, October 2012 vol. 22 no. 5, 626-642 https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354311433446 Abstract This paper examines the tensions between narrative therapy’s self-identification as a Foucauldian poststructural practice, and its attachment to the notion of personal agency. Michael White—narrative therapy’s primary author—used Foucault’s work as …

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Kioupkiolis, A. The agonistic turn of critical reason: Critique and freedom in Foucault and Castoriadis, European Journal of Social Theory, Volume 15, Issue 3, August 2012, Pages 385-402 https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431012439866 Abstract Straddling the divide between universalism and relativism, agonistic reason as construed by Foucault and Castoriadis dismisses universal foundations without becoming context-bound or inescapably subjectivist. It …

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Marie-Christine Leps, Thought of the outside: Foucault contra Agamben. Radical Philosophy, (Sep/Oct 2012) Further info It is gladly believed that a culture is more attached to its values than to its forms, that these can easily be modified, abandoned, taken up again; that only meaning is deeply rooted. This is to misunderstand … that people …

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Ilivitzky, M., Origins of biopolitics: Tensions between Foucault and Arendt [Orígenes de la biopolítica: tensiones entre Foucault y Arendt] Araucaria Volume 14, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 24-41 Download pdf here Abstract This article aims to explore the differences between the views that Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt respectively held of the political sphere in general …

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Neiva Furlin, Is a sociology of the subject possible? An approach to the theories of Foucault and Touraine [É possível uma sociologia do sujeito? Uma abordagem sobre as teorias de Foucault e Touraine] Sociologias Issue 29, January 2012, Pages 274-311 https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-45222012000100011 Abstract This research essay analyzes the theoretical concepts of the notion of “subject” in …

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