Alessandro Fontana 1939 -2013 Alessandro Fontana was Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the author of numerous essays which were partially collected in Il vizio occulto (1989) and La polizia dell’anima (1990). He collaborated with François Furet (Livre et société au XVIIIe siècle, 1970) and Michel Foucault (I, Pierre …
Source Progressive Geographies Mark Poster, intellectual historian of French thought and theorist of media and information, died yesterday. Mark Poster was one of the early commentators on Foucault’s work with his 1984 book Foucault, Marxism and History
Dr. Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist Who Led Movement Against His Field, Dies at 92 By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 11, 2012, New York Times Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist whose 1961 book “The Myth of Mental Illness” questioned the legitimacy of his field and provided the intellectual grounding for generations of critics, patient advocates and antipsychiatry activists, …
Martine Franck took some notable photographs of Foucault, some of which can be found here Martine Franck: 1938 – 2012, Time, August 20, 2012 | By Vaughn Wallace Martine Franck, an esteemed documentary and portrait photographer and second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson, died of cancer in Paris on Aug. 16 at the age of 74. …
From the Verso blog via Stuart Elden See also The Guardian obituary Kishani Widyaratna, Dr David Macey 1949—2011, Verso blog, 11 October 2011 It is our sad duty to announce the loss of Dr David Macey, translator and writer. A much respected and admired Verso author and champion of Francophone thought in the English speaking …
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