Foucault News

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

Richard Herbert, Madness and Superheroes, Overthinking It site, September 3rd, 2013. ‘We must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled’. –Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization In 1938, Americans who tuned into Mercury Theater on Air’s Halloween program a bit late listened with rapt-attention and …

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Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
The aim of my series of posts on the so-called “Foucault/Habermas Debate” has been to move the focus away from the discussion of the differences in their general approaches and return it to the more modest concerns that lay at its origin: the idea of a meeting between Foucault, Habermas,…

13 Things You Didn’t Know About Deleuze and Guattari – Part III, by Eugene Wolters, 2 July 2013 Some interesting anecdotes #11 Foucault saw Deleuze as a rival Some may find it surprising that the author of “Anti-Oedipus’” glowing introduction kind of hated the book. While Michel Foucault put on airs of amicability towards Deleuze, …

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