Foucault News

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

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. …

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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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Michael Ledger-Lomas, Tracing the Hard Edges of Religion: On Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind” Los Angeles Review of Books, 6 June 2023 […] No historian has evoked more vividly the strange waltz between a transcendent faith and earthly powers in the centuries from Constantine to Muhammad (a period the book’s author named “late antiquity”) …

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Paolucci, C. Pre‐Truth: Fake News, Semiological Guerrilla Warfare, and Some Other Media and Communication “Revolutions” (2023) Media and Communication, 11 (2), pp. 101-108. DOI: 10.17645/mac.v11i2.6628 Abstract In this article, I will work on the idea of Pre‐Truth (as opposed to post‐truth) and Semiological Guerrilla (as opposed to fake news), claiming that these two concepts are …

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Jean-François Bert, Jérôme Lamy (dir.), Michel Foucault : un héritage critique, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2014, 416 p., ISBN : 9782271081469. Updated 2023. Now available in Open Edition Books BERT, Jean-François (dir.) ; LAMY, Jérôme (dir.). Michel Foucault, un héritage critique. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Paris : CNRS Éditions, 2014 ( Disponible sur Internet : http://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/50867. ISBN : …

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Michael Maidan, Review of Elisabetta Basso, “Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952-1955.” . Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 43 No. 1 (2023), 7-10 : February Open access As formulated appropriately by Bernard Harcourt in his foreword —even if he is not …

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Heterotopia by Natasha Barrette Review by Agata Kik, The Quietus, March 17th, 2022 Acousmatic composer Natasha Barrette makes musique concrète feel like a thrilling adventure film, finds Agata Kik [Article includes music from the album] Heterotopia is an intriguing investigation into the sculpturing and spatialisation of sound, carried out by acclaimed acousmatic musician Natasha Barrett. …

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Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire and the Hermeneutics of Thoughts: Foucault’s Reading of Augustine and Cassian in Confessions of the Flesh Herman Westerink Philosophy From …

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Polan, Dana, Review, H-France Review, Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 149, pp.1-4. Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, and Dork Zabunyan, Foucault at the Movies, ed. and trans. Clare O’Farrell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018 First, let’s get the issue of the title out of the way: Michel Foucault, it seems, was in his adult years …

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