Foucault News

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

Sam Leith, In our Google era, indexers are the unsung heroes of the publishing world, The Guardian, Thursday 30 March 2017 […] Today, the Society of Indexers – the industry body for those professionals (for which, full disclosure, I have the honour to be honorary president) – turns 60 years old. It celebrates its “anniversary, …

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Violaine Morin, Quand la CIA s’intéressait de près à Foucault, Derrida et Althusser. Le Monde, 23.03.2017 En 1985, les espions américains se félicitaient de la décomposition de la gauche intellectuelle française. Et passaient complètement à côté de la popularité croissante de ces mêmes philosophes dans leur pays. Les espions lisent de la philosophie. Ce n’est …

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Editor: What do Foucault and the Duchess of Cambridge have in common? The polo neck skivvy! Bethan Holt,The affordable staple that has become the Duchess of Cambridge’s secret wardrobe weapon, The Telegraph, 23 February 2017 The Duchess of Cambridge is now, we can all agree, a pro in the royal dressing stakes. For her increasingly …

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Élisabeth Roudinesco: The Living Thought of Michel Foucault , Verso Books site, 13 November 2014 Élisabeth Roudinesco, author of Lacan: In Spite of Everything, Jacques Lacan & Co. and Madness and Revolution, among many others, on the writing of Michel Foucault, written for Le Monde in May: Thirty years after his death, Michel Foucault (1926–1984) is famed the world …

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