Foucault News

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

Robert Maggiori, Bouveresse, Opération Vérité, Libération, 12 février 2016 Jacques Bouveresse, Nietzsche contre Foucault. Sur la vérité, la connaissance et le pouvoir Avant-propos de Benoît Gaultier et Jean-Jacques Rosat, Agone, 2016 148 pp., 18 €. Une analyse serrée de la pensée de Foucault et de sa lecture de Nietzsche. Rien ne peut effacer la dette …

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Foucault, la Sexualité, l’Antiquité sous la direction de Sandra Boehringer et Daniele Lorenzini PDF of flyer Ont contribué à cet ouvrage : Jean Allouch, Thamy Ayouch, Sandra Boehringer, Claude Calame, Frédéric Gros, Daniele Lorenzini, Kirk Ormand, Olivier Renaut, Arianna Sforzini Éditions Kimé – Philosophie en cours – 196 pages ISBN 978-2-84174-739-9 – 20 € – …

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Behrouz Ghamari – Foucault, Spirituality, And The Perils Of Universal History, Paper delivered at the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, July 2015 mp3 for download See also Soundcloud   Response by Jorge Daniel Vásquez and Megan Eardley The beginning of Friday’s session was marked by a radical commitment to putting the analysis of religion …

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New Issue of Foucault Studies Number 20: December 2015: Civil Society All articles open access  Table of Contents Editorial Editorial PDF Sverre Raffnsøe et al. 1-3 Special Issue on Civil Society Introductory Note: Foucault and Civil Society PDF Miikka Pyykkönen 4-7 Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions …

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Rosie Smith, Book Review: Foucault’s ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’. The Sociological Imagination, 2015 Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lecture series ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’ is a wonderfully insightful book. It provides a detailed examination of the role of truth-telling throughout antiquity and its development into a key stone of contemporary European juridical proceedings. Specifically, Foucault investigates, within the discourse of …

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Sandrine Alexandre, Compte rendu : Arianna Sforzini : Michel Foucault, une pensée du corps, Actu Philosophia, 6 mars 2015 Plutôt qu’une véritable réflexion sur une « pensée du corps », une analyse de la thématique du corps chez Foucault 1. Le corps, les corps – un thème tout à la fois central chez Foucault mais peu étudié …

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Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights Ben Golder, Editor (New York: Routledge, 2013. 264 pages.) Reviewed by—Irina Ceric, (Criminology Faculty member, Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Vancouver, October 2014 Re-reading Foucault is an ambitious and mostly successful attempt to answer the question “Where is the law in Foucault and what has he done with it?” and …

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Arun Iyer, Towards an Epistemology of RupturesThe Case of Heidegger and Foucault., Bloomsbury, 2014 See also Review by H.A. Nethery at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews About By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological implications of Heidegger’s history of being and Foucault’s archaeology of discursive formations, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures shows how Heidegger and …

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Alex Lee, Formalized Epistemes: Foucault’s Incomplete Order of History, Entropy January 9, 2015 Review of The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault Update October 2025: Link is to the archived page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine To answer why do things make sense, in The Order of Things: …

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