Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil, Éditions Points 05 Décembre 2013, 356 pages. Frédéric Gros, Foucault et « la société punitive », Pouvoirs, 2010/4 n° 135, pp.5-14 Résumé Foucault prononce en 1973 un cours au Collège de France intitulé « La société punitive ». Ce cours, …

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Christopher Chitty, Foucault’s Addendum, The New Inquiry, 3 September 2013 Finally published, Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71, his first year teaching at the Collège de France, demolish the caricatures of his thought. On the first page of the lecture notes of January 27, 1971, Michel Foucault scrawled “incomplete” in his notoriously undisciplined hand. This bit …

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Colin Koopman, Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity, Indiana University Press, 2013, 348pp., $30.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780253006219. Reviewed by Amy Allen, Dartmouth College In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: An electronic journal 29 August 2013 The overall aim of Colin Koopman’s Genealogy as Critique is “to explicate genealogy in such a way as …

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Michael Maidan, Review of: A Companion to Foucault by Christopher Falzon,Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki (Editors) Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. This companion to the work of French thinker Michael Foucault offers an overview of his work, and critical essays that explore Foucault’s insights and his influence on contemporary social and political thought. Part I opens with the …

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Michel Foucault (2013) La société punitive. Cours au collège de France 1972-1973, Paris: Gallimard Seuil. Ce livre paraîtra le 10 octobre 2013. Frédéric Gros Foucault et « la société punitive » Compte rendu sur le site Cairn.info Résumé « Malheureusement, quand on enseigne la morale, quand on fait l’histoire de la morale, on explique toujours …

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David Webb, Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 256pp., $95.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780748624218. Open access Puts The Archaeology of Knowledge at the heart of Foucault’s thought David Webb reveals the extent to which Foucault’s approach to language in The Archaeology of Knowledge was influenced by the mathematical sciences, adopting a mode of …

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From the Korea Herald 10 April 2013 William Forsythe on Foucault’s ’space of otherness’ The “space of otherness” is what iconoclastic choreographer William Forsythe is bringing to Korea this week with the Korean stage debut of his 2006 work “Heterotopia.” A site-specific dance which requires the audience to move between two rooms on stage, “Heterotopia” …

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Review of two books inspired by Foucault: Yves Citton, Renverser l’insoutenable, Paris: Seuil, 2012 Sous la direction de Fabienne Brugère et Guillaume le Blanc, Michaël Foessel, Marie Gaille, Judith Revel, Pierre Zaoui Dictionnaire politique à l’usage des gouvernés, Paris: Bayard, 2012 Dans le bel Avant-propos de leur livre écrit à quatre mains, Philippe Artières et …

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