Foucault News

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

Iride. Filosofia e discussione pubblica, n. 66 maggio-agosto 2012 One of the most important philosophical journals in Italy, Iride has published its 66th issue which is largely devoted to Michel Foucault. Pdf of table of contents Abstracts in English are below Nota introduttiva. Sesso come cultura di Arnold I. Davidson Michel Foucault, L’arte di divenire gay …

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Special Issue “The Legacy of Richard Rorty” A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2013 Special Issue Editor Guest Editor Dr. Neil Gascoigne Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Interests: pragmatism, metaphilosophy, scepticism, tacit knowledge, expertise Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, During his …

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Call for Papers Pli, The Warwick Journal of Philosophy: Jean Hyppolite Man is consciousness and universal self-consciousness (this proposition must not be inverted by expressing universal self-consciousness in terms of man). The manifestation of this universal self-consciousness is no longer the State, but authentic language, which is the dwelling place [demeure] of Being. It is …

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Leiden Journal of International Law, Volume 25, Issue 03, September 2012 Special section on Foucault. For a limited period to mark the 29th anniversary of the journal this issue is available free online On the Uses of Foucault for International Law TANJA AALBERTS and BEN GOLDER pp 603-608 In Praise of Description ANNE ORFORD pp …

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Foucault, une politique de la vérité, Cahiers Philosophiques,  n°130/3ème trimestre 2012 Le Courage de la vérité est le dernier cours prononcé par Foucault au Collège de France durant l’année 1984. Celui-ci ne détermine pas le sens ultime de l’œuvre du philosophe pas plus qu’il ne déploie une totalisation unifiée de son parcours théorique. La parrêsia – le …

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From the new ‘Between Foucault and Deleuze’ website. August 2025 update: This site no longer exists. The link above is to the site as it was captured by the Wayback Machine in 2015 The aim of the “Between Deleuze and Foucault” project is to establish an on-going collaborative and synergistic relationship between Purdue University and …

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The first issue of an exciting new half-yearly peer reviewed journal entirely dedicated to Foucault and the applications of his thought materiali foucaultiani is now available online. It is open access and freely available for download. The first issue includes a special section devoted to the “Geographies of power: space and heterotopias, beginning from Foucault”. …

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Aut Aut. Foucault e la “Storia della follia” (1961-2011), no. 351, July-September 2011 MATERIALI 1 Michel Foucault “Non esiste cultura senza follia” [1961] Frédéric Gros Nota sulla “Storia della follia” Daniel Defert L’altra scena della pittura Pier Aldo Rovatti “Sarai un malato di mente” (una risposta ai detrattori di Foucault) Mario Colucci La storia negata …

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Foucault Across the Disciplines Guest editor: Colin Koopman History of the Human Sciences , October 2011; 24 (4) Link to abstracts and pdfs Table of Contents Colin Koopman Foucault across the disciplines: introductory notes on contingency in critical inquiry Ian Hacking Déraison Arnold I. Davidson In praise of counter-conduct Amy Allen Foucault and the politics …

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