Foucault News

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

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 …

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Thanks to Stuart at Progressive Geographies for this information History of the Present is a journal devoted to history as a critical endeavor. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the role history plays in establishing categories of contemporary debate by making them appear inevitable, natural or culturally …

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From Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self)Control This is available as an ebook PDF here The common dualistic approach to social movements tends to see power and resistance as separate and independent antagonists. RLF Manuskripte, Volume 88 The contributors to this book aim to transcend that approach, arguing that to …

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