In Memoriam: Marcelo Otero (1960-2024) Professor, Department of sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), member of the Centre de recherche de Montréal sur les inégalités sociales, les discriminations et les pratiques alternatives de citoyenneté (CRÉMIS), and author of Foucault sociologue. Critique de la raison impure (PUQ, 2021) Specialist in Foucault, whose destabilizing …
In Memoriam: Marnia Lazreg, CUNY Graduate Centre, February 23, 2024 See also Marnia Lazreg, Pathbreaking Hunter Sociology Professor, 83, Hunter CUNY, February 26, 2024 Marnia Lazreg, an emerita professor of sociology at Hunter College who was affiliated with the Graduate Center, died on January 13. She was 83 and was being treated for cancer at …
Robert Badinter, a just man for posterity EDITORIAL Le Monde, 10 February 2024 The former French justice minister died on Friday. It is salutary to recall his righteousness and intransigence at a time when France’s interior minister is pitting politics against law, the role of the Constitutional Council is being challenged, and prison overcrowding is …
Italian Radical Philosopher Toni Negri Dies In Paris By AFP – Agence France Presse December 16, 2023 Radical left-wing Italian philosopher Toni Negri died in Paris Saturday, aged 90, his wife the philosopher Judith Revel told AFP. A former leader of Italy’s Workers’ Power movement, Negri was arrested in 1979 and convicted by a court …
In memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936-2023) Published: May 10, 2023 Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto See also the Daily Nous site It is with deep sadness that the Department of Philosophy announces the passing of one of its most eminent members, Professor Emeritus Ian M. Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA. The influential scholar, teacher, and prolific …
Décès de Daniel Defert : les réactions, Seronet, 10.02.2023 La disparition du sociologue et militant de la lutte contre le sida, Daniel Defert, décédé le 7 février à l’âge de 85 ans, a suscité de nombreuses réactions. Militants-es de AIDES, partenaires, personnalités médicales, associatives et politiques, etc., nombreuses ont été les réactions à l’annonce de …
Daniel Defert, philosophe, sociologue et figure de la lutte contre le sida, est mort L’universitaire a été à l’origine de la création de l’association Aides en 1984, après la disparition de son compagnon, Michel Foucault. Par Franck Nouchi Le Monde, 7 janvier 2023 Translation into English can be found here [Editor: I will add further …
L’écrivain Serge Livrozet, anarchiste et militant anti-carcéral, est mort à 83 ans franceinfo: Culture 30/11/2022 Figure des milieux anarchistes, il fut l’un des meneurs des révoltes qui ébranlèrent les prisons françaises dans les années 70. Il s’est éteint chez lui dans la région niçoise, “des suites d’une longue maladie”, ont annoncé mercredi ses proches à …
Paul Veyne, grand historien français de l’Antiquité, est mort, Le Devoir Claude Casteran – Agence France-Presse à Paris 29 septembre 2022 L’historien de l’Antiquité Paul Veyne, salué pour son érudition et son enthousiasme pour transmettre sa passion des mondes grec et romain dans une oeuvre aussi savante qu’iconoclaste, est mort à l’âge de 92 ans, …
Dominique Lecourt, author of the classics of Marxist philosophy of science Marxism and Epistemology Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault and Proletarian Science?, among many others, died in Paris on 1 May 2022. Here, Roger-Pol Droit remembers his life and work. Also included [on the Verso page] is a newly translated essay of Lecourt’s on Foucault’s The Archaeology …
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