Foucault News

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

Editor: Perlego, an ebook library launched in 2016, offers a paid subscription service to access a variety of academic and professional ebooks. They have a very substantial collection of currently 431 books relating to Foucault, mainly in English, but also in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. The collection also includes a selection of works …

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A new US based directory of women philosophers has been set up. Below is a description and invitation to join circulated by one of the organisers. This is a crowd-sourced database searchable by 1) name, 2) school, 3) faculty position, 4) areas of specialization, 5) primary research interests, and 6) geographical location. It currently contains …

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Allen, A. (2012) Using Foucault in education research, British Educational Research Association on-line resource. Full pdf for download Michel Foucault is frequently cited in educational research. Care should, nevertheless, be taken when reading work that makes use of Foucault as interpretations of Foucault’s ideas vary almost as widely as the uses to which they are …

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