Foucault News

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

Jan Cornelis Ott, Perceptions of the Nature of Happiness: Cultural, but Related to the Dynamics of the Human Mind and the Gratification of General Needs: Review of Laura Hyman: Happiness; Understanding Narratives and Discourses, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-137-32152-7 (2016) Journal of Happiness Studies, 18, 313–319 (2017). Published online 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9720-6 Abstract In her book …

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Editor: I posted up a review of this book earlier. It is attracting quite a bit of attention in France hence the repost. See the links at the end of this post Jacques Bouveresse, Nietzsche contre Foucault Sur la vérité, la connaissance et le pouvoir. Agone, 25/01/2016 Avant-propos de Benoit Gaultier et Jean-Jacques Rosat. Et si …

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María Alejandra Energici Sprovera, Reseña: El self emprendedor. Sociología de una forma de subjetivación Ulrich Bröckling (2015). Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Revista Persona y Sociedad, Vol. XXIX / Nº 3 septiembre-diciembre 2015 / 131-136 https://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/158012 La pregunta por el sujeto ha tomado especial relevancia en los últimos años, principalmente porque permite pensar la complejidad …

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A review of Projective Ecologies, edited by Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister. 2014. Second edition 2020. ISBN: 1940291127. ACTAR, Harvard Graduate School of Design. 314 pages. Review by Anne Trumble Several months ago, I reviewed Landscape Imagination, a collection of essays by James Corner, a professor at University of Pennsylvania and the landscape architect who designed New …

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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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