Stuart Elden, Power, Nietzsche and the Greeks: Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir, Originally published on the now defunct Berfrois site. The most recently published lecture course from Michel Foucault’s time at the Collège de France is his first, entitled ‘La Volonté de Savoir’—the will to know or the will to knowledge. To avoid …
Ben Golder, Review of Foucault’s Monsters and the Challenge of Law, Abingdon: Routledge , 2010 by Andrew Sharpe, The Modern Law Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, July 2011, pp 639–642. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663912463631c Review Andrew Sharpe has written a very erudite and impeccably serious book about monsters. However, Sharpe’s thought-provoking book is not so much about the …
From the Philosophy’s Other blog Taylor, Dianna, ed. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts. Chesham: Acumen, 2011. Review by Cynthia Coe Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century’s most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, …
Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Stuart Elden has offered some preliminary observations on this new French publication on his blog He has also published some comments by Colin Gordon on this volume as well on his blog
Gary Gutting, Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960, The Oxford History of Philosophy, 978-0-19-922703-7 | Hardback | 10 March 2011 Review in The Guardian Description The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging, historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of …
Eliot Weinberger “‘Damn right,’ I said”, Review of Decision Points by George W. Bush, London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 1 · 6 January 2011 pages 3-5. Read rest of review here In the late 1960s, George Bush Jr was at Yale, branding the asses of pledges to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity with …
A review by Thosaeng Chaochuti which appears on the New Mandala blog draws attention to a chapter on the uptake of Foucault in Thailand. Rachel V. Harrison and Peter A. Jackson, eds., The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand, with a foreword by Dipesh Chakrabarty. Hong Kong and Ithaca: Hong …
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