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

Turnbull, M. Assembling the Crisis of COVID-19 in Australia: A Foucauldian Analysis of Prime Ministerial Press Conferences in March 2020 (2023) Genealogy, 7 (3) DOI: 10.3390/genealogy7030066 Abstract In this article, I present a Foucauldian analysis of the speeches made by the then Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Scott Morrison) in March 2020. This analysis sets …

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Michael Ure, Michel Foucault’s Rhetorical Practice: The 1961 Preface to History and Madness (2023) Philosophy and Rhetoric, 52 (6), pp. 142-167. Abstract This article examines Foucault as a rhetorician rather than as a historian of parrhesia and rhetoric. It explores what we can learn about his philosophy by examining it through the lens of his …

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materiali foucaultiani, volume X, numero 19-20 (gennaio-dicembre 2021) Open access SOMMARIO L’ambiente del governo. Biopolitica ed ecologia politica a cura di Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Introduzione. La biopolitica e il clima della storia (pp. 5-18) Andrea Angelini, Orazio Irrera, Benedetta Piazzesi Gouvernementalité et écologie (pp. 19-44) Emanuele Leonardi, Luigi Pellizzoni L’impasse de l’antinaturalisme …

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Eli B. Lichtenstein (2023) “Explanation and evaluation in Foucault’s genealogy of morality,” European Journal of Philosophy 31, no. 3, 731-747, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12809 Abstract: Philosophers have cataloged a range of genealogical methods by which different sorts of normative conclusions can be established. Although such methods provide diverging ways of pursuing genealogical inquiry, they typically converge in …

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Suijker, C.A. Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims (2023) Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy DOI: 10.1007/s11019-023-10170-y Abstract Some of Michel Foucault’s work focusses on an archeological and genealogical analysis of certain aspects of the medical episteme, such as ‘Madness and Civilization’ (1964/2001), ‘The Birth of the Clinic’ (1973) and ‘The History of Sexuality’ (1978/2020a). These …

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Václav Rut (2023) Václav Havel’s Search for Emancipatory Governmentality, Critical Horizons, DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2023.2262342 ABSTRACT This paper deals with the political philosophy of Václav Havel, mainly its relation to ethics and what Michel Foucault called governmentality. Besides using his analytical framework, Foucault’s politics are engaged with to highlight similar trajectories of two intellectuals dealing with related …

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Emma Claussen (2022) ‘Est-ce vivre?’ The Politics of Living in La Boétie and Montaigne, Early Modern French Studies, 44:1, 70-85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2022.2076314 Abstract This article explores Étienne La Boétie’s discussion of the unfree life, with and against Montaigne’s accounts of life in the Essais. In De la servitude volontaire, La Boétie responds to writing on …

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Prewitt, Ryan, and Max Accardi. “Cultural Necromancy: Digital Resurrection and Hegemonic Incorporation.” SubStance 52, no. 2 (2023): 74-101. https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2023.a907150. Abstract: This essay follows the recent discourse on two phenomena: the tendency of hegemony to incorporate subversive cultures, and the digital reanimation of prominent dead people. At the intersection of these phenomena lies what we call …

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Armstrong, Lauren (2023) “‘Half of it’s Out the Window’: Exploring Tensions, Hierarchies and Positionalities Amidst the Changing Knowledge Base of Early Childhood Teacher Education Discourses,” Australian Journal of Teacher Education: Vol. 48 : Iss. 2 , Article 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14221/1835-517X.5960 Abstract Early childhood education is foregrounded in change. In Australia, this has encompassed the introduction, …

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