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

Foucault in Chinese Educational Studies, Special Issue. Knowledge Cultures, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2019 Foucault In Chinese Educational Studies Michael A. Peters Aesthetic Education: toward a possible aesthetic life Xu Jinyuan Using Foucault’s theory of technologies of the self to examine the learning process in China’s math classrooms Chi Xiao Governmentality and private tutoring …

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Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte – Volume 115, Issue 1, 2023 Introduction in English The focus of this special issue is the 2018 posthumous publication of Michel Foucault’s book manuscript Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality, Volume 4 (Dutch transl. Jeanne Holierhoek, 2020). This study by Foucault examines pastoral care, ethics and sexual desire …

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Special Issue: Foucault Before the Collège de France, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 40 Issue 1-2, January-March 2023 Foucault Before the Collège de France Stuart Elden Orazio Irrera Daniele Lorenzini Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel? Pierre Macherey Foucault and the History of Anthropology: Man, before the ‘Death of Man’ Arianna Sforzini Michel …

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Special Issue: Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability, Sustainability, March 2023 Open access Kaspar Villadsen (Copenhagen Business School) and Johannes Lundberg (Århus University) have guest-edited a special issue of the journal Sustainability with the title: “Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability”. The Special Issue eplores themes like the ESG discourse, Green Transition, CSR, …

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Foucault’s Late Politics. Special Issue. South Atlantic Quarterly, October 2022, Vol 121, Issue 4 Introduction: The Late Foucault and the Allegories of Theory Gavin Walker ARTICLES Beyond Neoliberal Realism: Foucault’s Late Politics Johanna Oksala Crisis and Transition: The Late Foucault and the Vocation of Philosophy Benjamin Noys The Revolutionary and Anti-Capitalist Politics of the Late …

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Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias, Humanities (2022) Kohlke, Marie-Luise, Elizabeth Ho, and Akira Suwa. 2022. “Heterotopic and Neo-Victorian Affinities: Introducing the Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Heterotopias” Humanities 11, no. 1: 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11010008 Wadoux, Charlotte. 2022. ““The World Had Forgotten about Us”: Heterotopian Resistance in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip” Humanities 11, no. …

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Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire and the Hermeneutics of Thoughts: Foucault’s Reading of Augustine and Cassian in Confessions of the Flesh Herman Westerink Philosophy From …

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CRISIS AND CRITIQUE Volume 9 / Issue 2, 25-11-2022 Edited by Agon Hamza & Frank Ruda Open access Introduction: Is Politics Possible Today? by Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza Table of Contents Politics Today: Thirteen Theses and Commentaries by Alain Badiou Rethinking Politics and Freedom in Anthropocene by Wendy Brown Technique as Politics by Andrea …

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Foucault/Benjamin: storia, violenza, soggettivazione a cura di Valentina Moro materiali foucaultiani, volume IX, numero 17-18 (gennaio-dicembre 2020) (Backdated) Open access SOMMARIO Foucault/Benjamin: storia, violenza, soggettivazione a cura di Valentina Moro Introduzione : Foucault/Benjamin. Genealogie et costellazioni concettuali (pp. 5-11) Valentina Moro Politicità e impoliticità del comune. Pensiero della comunità e filosofia della storia in Benjamin …

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GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE Special Issue, Vol 4 Issue 1, 2018. Articles in German The collection “Foucault meets Latour,” edited by Simon Ganahl and Patrick Kilian, attempts to confront but also connect the thought of Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour. Equally interested in the question of modernity, both thinkers developed theoretical frameworks and conceptual toolboxes in order to …

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