Weili Zhao, Epistemological flashpoints in China’s ‘person-making’ education with reinvoked cultural discourses: lideshuren as an example, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 59, Issue 3-4, June-August 2025, Pages 568–585 https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhae081 Abstract As an imprint and reinvigoration of Confucian culture, China foregrounds its 21st-century state-run education as to make national(istic) citizens, reinvoking lideshuren (establishing personhood by …
Peter Shay, Grasshoppers and Goldfish: Literature, Subjectivation, and Ethical Democracy, Review of Education Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2025) DOI: https://doi.org/10.71002/res.v5n3p10 Abstract As western society descends into a state of pervasive attention-deficit, a profound ethical crisis unfolds. The erosion of sustained concentration – exacerbated by the manipulative attention economies of digital technologies and the infiltration …
Arūnas Mickevičius, Genealogical Critique of Social Practices: Nietzsche and Foucault versus Habermas, Topos, 1(54) 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.61095/815-0047-2025-1-45-65 Abstract This article aims to elucidate Michel Foucault’s interpretive engagement with key concepts in Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, to demonstrate their significance for the development of Foucault’s genealogical method, and to examine how, particularly in his polemic with Jürgen …
Johnson, J. M. (2024). The Biopolitics of Liberal War: Humanity, Temporality and Cosmology. Millennium, 53(1), 86-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298241288171 Abstract What is the relationship between war and liberalism? Over the last two decades, an extensive and influential literature inspired by Michel Foucault’s conception of biopolitics has argued that the ‘war on terror’ is defined by distinctly liberal …
Tuominen, I. (2025). ‘The Truth of Oneself’: Governing Homosexual Asylum Seekers Through Confession. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17438721251330732 Abstract This article addresses the question of how the ‘truth’ about homosexual asylum seekers is constituted through legal proceedings, what kinds of subjectivities are produced in the asylum process and how these issues reflect the …
Sorace, C. (2025). Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China. Political Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251323747 Abstract China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic could be described as a lesson directly from the pages of Foucault. For nearly three years, China’s vast state apparatus and society were mobilized around the goal of protecting life until November 2023, when people …
Pan, S., & Mou, Y. (2025). Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners. Social Science Computer Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251340693 Abstract With the growing prevalence and accessibility of AI companions, contemporary women are forming relationships with virtual partners. It is important to examine the relational, social, and gender-related implications of …
Vasiliou, Elena (2025). Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory. Theoretical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806251350622 Abstract Much research on suicide or self-harm in prison settings draws on medical and psychological preventive discourses, rather than engaging with broader social or structural approaches. Such perspectives have been critiqued for leaning toward individualizing, pathologizing, …
Howell, P. (2025). Foucault, Parrhesia and the politics of presence: on not speaking truth to power. Cultural Geographies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241310238 Abstract This paper considers the take-up by geographers and others of Foucault’s late work on parrhesia, the ancient Greek concept of frank or fearless speech. While there has been productive work on its genealogy and …
Vaccarino Bremner, S. (2025), The Relativized A Priori, the Historical A Priori, and the Symbolic Form. Philosophy Compass, 20: e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.70044 ABSTRACT Recent work in philosophy of science has suggested that scientific paradigms in the wake of revolutions can be conceived as relativized a priori frameworks. In this paper, I put these accounts in dialog …
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