Stephen J. Ball (2021) Response: policy? Policy research? How absurd?, Critical Studies in Education, DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2021.1924214 Extract from first page There is no way that I can address the wide range of issues raised in the exemplary collection of papers on policy sociology. These are cutting edge pieces by world-class scholars that lay out analytic …
Jean Zaganiaris, Michel Foucault, le Covid-19 et le «combat immense et multiple des savoirs», iPhilo, 20/05/2021 COMMENTAIRE : La pandémie est l’objet de vives disputes sur ce qui serait médicalement vrai et ce qui relèverait de fakenews. Le philosophe et historien de la littérature Jean Zaganiaris a exhumé pour l’occasion un texte de Michel Foucault …
Weiss, R. Stoicism and its telos: insights from Michel Foucault (2020) Metaphilosophy, 51 (2-3), pp. 335-354. DOI: 10.1111/meta.12419 Abstract This essay concerns the disputed nature of the telos in Stoicism and argues that Michel Foucault’s description of the Stoic telos plausibly constitutes an accurate characterization, despite the frequent criticism it has received and the fact …
M. Francyne Huckaby (2008) Making Use of Foucault in a Study of Specific Parrhesiastic Scholars, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 40:6, 770-788. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00369.x Abstract In this article, I describe how I made use of Foucault theoretically and methodologically in a study of five specific parrhesiastic scholars. Such scholars challenge hegemony in educational policies and practices, …
Laufer, L. Michel Foucault: The Queer Gender for Psychoanalysis? (2020) Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 40 (8), pp. 579-590. DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2020.1826214 Abstract Why should a practitioner of psychoanalysis read Foucault? Is Foucault still a “hot topic” for psychoanalysts in 2019? To prevent psychoanalysis from becoming a dead language, reading and re-reading Michel Foucault proves highly relevant, as it …
Danielle Guizzo (2021) Reassessing Foucault: Power in the History of Political Economy, International Journal of Political Economy, 50:1, 60-74. DOI: 10.1080/08911916.2021.1894828 Abstract This article examines Michel Foucault’s contributions to the study of power in the history of political economy. It employs Foucault’s readings on economic thought to investigate two moments in the history of political …
Listik Y. (2021) A Biopolitical Account of Social Pathology: Viewing Pathology as a Political-Ontological Issue. In: Harris N. (eds) Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70582-4_7 Open access Abstract This chapter will argue that the study of social pathologies is not solely a sociological concern. It is crucial …
Christiaens, T. The entrepreneur of the self beyond Foucault’s neoliberal homo oeconomicus (2020) European Journal of Social Theory, 23 (4), pp. 493-511. DOI: 10.1177/1368431019857998 Abstract In his lectures on neoliberalism, Michel Foucault argues that neoliberalism produces subjects as ‘entrepreneurs of themselves’. He bases this claim on Gary Becker’s conception of the utility-maximizing agent who solely …
Webb, S. Philosophy as a feminist spirituality and critical practice for Mary Astell (2020) Metaphilosophy, 51 (2-3), pp. 280-302. DOI: 10.1111/meta.12411 Abstract The question of how gender might inflect and affect philosophy as a way of life has been somewhat neglected, as has the role of philosophical modes of living for historical female philosophers. This …
Zitcer, A. Making Up Creative Placemaking (2020) Journal of Planning Education and Research, 40 (3), pp. 278-288. DOI: 10.1177/0739456X18773424 Abstract Creative placemaking is an increasingly prevalent form of planning practice that invokes arts and culture as tools for revitalization. Planners, policymakers, funders, and practitioners are engaged in a discursive struggle to define what is meant …
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