Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen. Or, My Life in Theory, Penguin Random House, 2026 Review by Dayna Tortorici, New York Times, 23 July 2026 Description When Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of an eclectic body of philosophical texts by a handful of French authors. This was French …
Pascal Engel, Foucault et les normes du savoir, Eliott éditions, 2024 L’œuvre de Michel Foucault est une réflexion sur les normes. C’est de ses conceptions des normes du savoir que traite principalement ce livre, et de son projet d’une généalogie et d’une histoire de la vérité. Foucault renverse les positions classiques : au lieu de …
Jonathan Fanara, « Les Trois Maisons de Michel Foucault » : les demeures de la pensée, LeMagduCiné, 27 mai 2026 Avec Les Trois Maisons de Michel Foucault, les Presses universitaires de Rennes prennent le parti d’explorer le philosophe français à travers Poitiers, Vendeuvre et Verrue. Le livre transforme ces lieux de vie en véritables chambres …
Echo Delay Reverb. American Art, Francophone Thought Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France from 10/22/2025 to 02/15/2026 The group exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought” explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of …
Jean-Marie Durand, De Deleuze à Foucault, la “French Theory” illustrée dans un magistral essai graphique, Les Inrockuptibles, 28 octobre 2025 French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle de François Cusset, Thomas Daquin (La Découverte, Delcourt, 2025) Avec “French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle”, François Cusset et Thomas Daquin rendent accessibles les concepts-clé de la french theory, …
Wahyudi Akmaliah, Review: Making the subject of Sunda, Inside Indonesia, 14 April 2025 What is ethnicity? Is it social construction or a part of an ancestral heritage? In what way is ethnicity significant in the Indonesian context? These are the questions Holy Rafika Dhona tries to answer in Subjek Sunda: Genealogi. Kelahiran, dan Kewilayahan. Specifically, he offers …
Schultz, Daniel J. Review of The History of Sexuality, Volume 4: Confessions of the Flesh, by Michel Foucault. The Comparatist 47 (2023): 413-424. https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2023.a911953 Extract When Volumes 2 and 3 of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality appeared in 1984, a publisher’s insert announced the imminent arrival of a fourth volume, Confessions of the Flesh. …
Giorgi Vachnadze, Review: Hannah Lyn Venable: Madness in Experience and History, Phenomenological Reviews, Tuesday October 31st 2023 Open access It would be fitting, perhaps to start speaking of Madness in Experience and History by refusing to begin at the beginning and stepping right into the centre oscillating towards the periphery through a long and patient …
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