Foucault News

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

Foucault and the politics of resistance in Brazil, Carceral Notebooks, vol. 13, 2017 An ensemble of articles written by Brazilian intellectuals on Foucault, especially on his travels to Brazil Open access Bernard E. Harcourt, Preface Marcelo Hoffman, Special Editor, Introduction Salma Tannus Muchail and Márcio Alves da Fonseca, Power and Resistance: Foucault’s Laboratory in Brazil …

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Special issue on Foucault in Iran Iran Namag Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2018 English Verso Foucault and Iran Reconsidered: Revolt, Religion, and Neoliberalism Michiel Leezenberg French Secular Thought: Foucault and Political Spirituality Brian Turner Risking Prophecy in the Modern State: Foucault, Iran, and the Conduct of the Corey McCall Foucault and Epicureanism of the …

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Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities Special Issue: Problems in twentieth-century French philosophy Vol 23, no. 2 2018 Issue editors: Sean Bowden and Mark G.E. Kelly Introduction PROBLEMS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY Sean Bowden & Mark G.E. Kelly Page: 1 Editorial PROBLEMATIZING PROBLEMS Sean Bowden & Mark G.E. Kelly Pages: 2-7 THE MISADVENTURES OF THE …

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Foucault Studies Number 24, June 2018: Foucauldian Spaces Table of Contents Editorial – Special Issue, Foucauldian Spaces Sverre Raffnsøe Section in collaboration with Foucault Circle Introductory Essay: Foucauldian Spaces Dianna Taylor, Joanna Crosby Articles South Africa as postcolonial heterotopia: The racialized experience of place and space Charles Villet The 2015 Baltimore Protests: Human Capital and …

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Confluence Concourse: Call for Publication: Special Issue on “Political Genealogy after Foucault” Genealogy is now accepting submissions for a Special Issue on the theme, “Political Genealogy After Foucault.” Inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, this issue invites essays from scholars employing political genealogy as a methodology and model of theoretical inquiry representing a wide range …

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Nudges: Better choices?, The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville, Volume 37, Number 1, 2016. Special issue. Nudges:Better choices? Introduction Malik Bozzo-Rey, Anne Brunon-Ernst, and Arnaud Van Waeyenberge, (Membres du French Nudge Project) Brief excerpt Nudges en questions L’ouvrage Nudge de Cass Sunstein et Richard Thaler1 est singulier à plusieurs titres : il est en effet rare …

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CALL FOR PAPERS materiali foucaultiani journal / Associazione italiana Walter Benjamin Foucault and Benjamin Materiali foucaultiani journal and the Italian Association “Walter Benjamin” launch a call for papers dedicated to a comparison between Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault. MF journal proposes to open up new research pathways that jointly crisscross the works of Benjamin and Foucault, beyond the …

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Michel Foucault « Un très beau feu d’artifice » Critique 2016/12 (n° 835) Présentation En 1978, devant des étudiants californiens, Michel Foucault rêvait à haute voix de « livres bombes » : ils ne tueraient personne, mais « disparaîtraient peu de temps après qu’on les aurait lus ou utilisés ». La philosophie comme Mission impossible …

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Special Section: Foucault and religion: Critical engagements (2017), Critical Research on Religion, Volume 5, Issue 2, August 2017 Contents A genealogy of critique: From parrhesia to prophecy Tom Boland, Paul Clogher First Published February 10, 2017; pp. 116–132 Reexamining Foucault on confession and obedience: Peter Schaefer’s Radical Pietism as counter-conduct Elisa Heinämäki First Published May …

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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue: Critical Histories of the Present, September 2017, Volume 55, Issue Supplement S1. Pages 1–209 Editor’s Introduction: Critical Histories of the Present (pages 5–6) Verena Erlenbusch Overcoming “The Present Limits of the Necessary”: Foucault’s Conception of a Critique (pages 7–24) Tuomo Tiisala Comments on Tuomo Tiisala, “Overcoming ‘The Present …

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