Foucault News

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

Carozzi, G. Hope and responsibility: embracing different types of knowledge whilst generating my own living-educational-theory (2021) Educational Action Research DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2021.1880458 Abstract For Foucault, discourses shape people’s knowledge and inform how they act in a society. Power over others is legitimated by dominant discourses, a means through which hegemony discloses itself: a given group is …

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Soleymanjahan, I., Maleki, N., Weisi, H. The real America: Representation of American society in Jack Kerouac’s on the road based on Michel Foucault’s notions of institutions, normalization, and surveillance (2020) Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 28 (4), pp. 2913-2927. DOI: 10.47836/PJSSH.28.4.23 Abstract This study aimed to scrutinize and analyze the novel On the …

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Joseph Zajda, Discourse analysis as a qualitative methodology (2020) Educational Practice and Theory, 42 (2), pp. 5-21. https://doi.org/10.7459/ept/42.2.02 Abstract The article analyses the term discourse and discourse analysis with reference to Foucault and other critics. Foucault used the role of discourses in wider social processes of legitimating power, and emphasizing the construction of current truths. …

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Pele, Antonio, and Stephen Riley. “For a Right to Health Beyond Biopolitics: The Politics of Pandemic and the ‘Politics of Life.’” Law, Culture and the Humanities, (February 2021). DOI: 10.1177/1743872120978201 Open access Abstract We argue, drawing on the work of Didier Fassin, that the right to health can be understood as an essential part of …

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Tomassini, L., Lamond, I., Burrai, E. Global Citizenship & Parrhesia in Small Values-Based Tourism Firms (2021) Leisure Sciences DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2021.1874574 Abstract In this paper we focus on the relationship between justice and tourism and the tension between consumerism and citizenship within the context of small values-based tourism firms. We combine Foucault’s concept of parrhesia, the …

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Caraus, T. The horizon of another world: Foucault’s Cynics and the birth of radical cosmopolitics (2021) Philosophy and Social Criticism DOI: 10.1177/0191453720987867 Abstract The ancient Cynic Diogenes was the first to declare ‘I am a citizen of the world (kosmopolitês)’ and the other Cynics followed him. In The Courage of the Truth, Michel Foucault analyses …

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Emmanuel Chamorro. “Disciplina y capitalismo en la genealogía foucaultiana de la modernidad (1973-1975)”. Revista de Estudios Sociales, no. 75 (2021): 2-14. DOI: 10.7440/res75.2021.02 Open access Abstract Este trabajo se propone reconstruir las reflexiones foucaultianas acerca del nacimiento de la modernidad, con especial atención al papel que en ella desempeñan capitalismo y disciplina. La tesis que …

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Fiorani, Matteo. “Rationality, irrationality and irrationalism in the anti-institutional debate in psychiatry around the second half of the 1970s in italy.” European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 16, br. 2 (2020): 101-121. DOI: 10.31820/ejap.16.2.5 Open access Abstract The movements and protests of 1968 worldwide criticized the traditional idea of normality. From the 1970s onwards, psychiatry and …

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Golder, Ben, How to do things with Foucault (legally) (February 2, 2021). SSRN Abstract In this essay I discuss the legal theorist, Peter Fitzpatrick’s, reading of philosopher, Michel Foucault. My intent is to show how and why Foucault was important to Fitzpatrick and what this reveals about the latter’s practices of reading. I characterise this …

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Torres Apablaza, Iván. “Ethopolitical modulation of existence: an archeology of the political and ethical life in Michel Foucault” Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy Vol 10, No 18 (2021): 199-223 Open access RESUMEN El artículo tiene por propósito fundamentar la presencia de una reconceptualización de lo político en el pensamiento de Michel …

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