Foucault News

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

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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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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Originally posted on ENTITLE blog – a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology:
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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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