Foucault News

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

Thomas Lemke, Critique and Experience in Foucault, Theory, Culture & Society, July 2011 vol. 28 no. 4 26-48 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411404907 Abstract It is widely known that by the end of the 1970s, Foucault had begun to refer to ‘experience’ to account for his intellectual trajectory and to redirect the work on The History of Sexuality. However, …

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Maurizio Meloni, “Naturalism as an Ontology of Ourselves”,Telos 155 (Summer 2011). https://dx.doi.org/10.3817/0611155151 Abstract Scientific naturalism, according to Jürgen Habermas, represents one of the “two countervailing trends that mark the intellectual tenor of our age,” the other being religious worldviews. Using Foucault’s distinction between philosophy as an “analytic of truth” and philosophy as an “ontology of …

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Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Foucault with Habermas: Towards a complementary critical reading of modernity, Revista Enfoques, Vol. IX, no. 14, 2011, pp. 139-151 https://doi.org/10.60728/a5zww823 ABSTRACT This essay examines Foucault’s and Habermas’s critical project in order to show their complementary character. In the examination of the main aspects of their oeuvres, it is argued, contrary to what …

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Olli Pyyhtinen, Sakari Tamminen, We have never been only human: Foucault and Latour on the question of the anthropos, Anthropological Theory, Vol. 11, No. 2. (1 June 2011), pp. 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499611407398 Abstract Today, the impact of the work of both Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour is increasingly evident in anthropology, most notably in the subfields …

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Michael L. Cepek, Foucault in the forest: Questioning environmentality in Amazonia, American Ethnologist, Volume 38, Issue 3, August 2011, pp 501–515. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01319.x ABSTRACT In this article, I analyze the encounter between the Field Museum of Natural History and Amazonian Ecuador’s Cofán people to question the concept of “environmentality”: the idea that environmentalist programs and movements …

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Ronald E. Butchart, What’s Foucault Got to Do with It? History, Theory, and Becoming Subjected, History of Education Quarterly, Issue 2, Volume 51, May 2011, pages 239–246. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2011.00333.x Extract The three essays before us constitute an indictment of the field of the history of education for its neglect of theory. Read linearly, from the Introduction …

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Juritzen TI, Grimen H, Heggen K., ‘Protecting vulnerable research participants: A Foucault-inspired analysis of ethics committees’. Nursing Ethics. Jun 6 2011 https://doi.org/10.1177/09697330114038 Abstract History has demonstrated the necessity of protecting research participants. Research ethics are based on a concept of asymmetry of power, viewing the researcher as powerful and potentially dangerous and establishing ethics committees …

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Thomas Biebricher, The practices of theorists: Habermas and Foucault as public intellectuals Philosophy Social Criticism, June 14 2011 https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453711400244 Abstract The scholarly works of Jürgen Habermas and Michel Foucault have been subject to ongoing scrutiny for a number of decades. However, less attention has been given to their activities as public intellectuals and the relation …

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Géraldine Brausch, «Un détour par les stratèges de Jullien pour relire les analyses stratégiques de Foucault», Dissensus, N° 4 (avril 2011) Table des matières I. Nécessité d’une hétérotopie II. Contre le modèle du droit, le modèle stratégique III. La logique disciplinaire ou l’art de faire table rase du réel pour mieux le (re)créer. Retour sur …

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Michael Power, Foucault and Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 37 July 07, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-081309-150133 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault was a gifted but elusive thinker with a wide and continuing impact across many academic fields. This article positions his work as a historical sociology of knowledge and evaluates its contribution. After reviewing Foucault’s central preoccupations as …

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