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: …
L’Essai et la revue du jour par Jacques Munier France Culture, 9 June 2015 Audio Michel Foucault : Théories et institutions pénales. Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972 (EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil) « C’est un document exceptionnel » préviennent les éditeurs François Ewald et Bernard E. Harcourt dans le texte qu’ils consacrent à la Situation du cours, à …
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Uses and abuses of historical contextualization in Critiquer Foucault. Les années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, edited by Daniel Zamora. Part I. * by Emanuele Leonardi Foucault participating in a demonstration. Source: http://www.teatrovalleoccupato.it/ Reviewing Critquer Foucault is not an easy task, for…
Stuart Elden, Peasant Revolts, Germanic Law and the Medieval Inquiry, Review of Théories et institutions pénales: Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972, by Michel Foucault, edited by Bernard E. Harcourt, Paris: EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, 2015. Berfrois, June 2, 2015 Foucault remains full of surprises. This course, Théories et institutions pénales (“Penal Theories and Institutions”), was the second he …
Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Alexander Arnold on Critiquer Foucault: Les Années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, Los Angeles Review of Books, 18 March 2015 JACOBIN RECENTLY PUBLISHED an interview with a little-known sociologist that provoked a wave of reactions. A young Belgian scholar named Daniel Zamora claimed that …
Madness in Civilization: from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull Reviewed by Salley Vickers, The Telegraph, 29 Mar 2015 I doubt whether many people other than social science students read Michel Foucault these days. Andrew Scull, whose review of Foucault’s The History of Madness in 2007 took the …
Emanuele Leonardi, Review of Dardot & Laval’s The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society, Theory Culture & Society, Nov 13, 2014 Link to full review Abstract: The review highlights how the new book by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval can be interpreted as a twofold contribution. On the one hand, it represents much-needed …
Review by A. Janae Sholtz of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2014.09.25 Extract […] Hoffman makes several signature claims. As his central thesis, he proposes the relationship between Foucault’s political and militant activities and his analysis of power as a dialectic interplay, …
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Blackhat’: Techno-thriller hacks into Michael Mann’s directorial signatures, By Peter Suderman — Special to The Washington Times – – Friday, January 16, 2015 The cinematic world of Michael Mann, the director behind “Heat,” “Collateral,” “The Insider” and “Miami Vice,” might look more or less like ours on the surface, but in fact it’s …
Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt (eds.), Stephen W. Sawyer (tr.), University of Chicago Press, 2014, 344pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226257709. Reviewed by Todd May, Clemson University, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13 January 2015 This volume consists of six lectures, preceded by an inaugural lecture and …
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