Foucault News

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

Gilles Deleuze, Corso su Michel Foucault. Il sapere| Il potere| La soggettivazione, Ombre Corte, 2025 In occasione del centenario della nascita di Gilles Deleuze, tornano disponibili in un elegante cofanetto tutte le lezioni che il filosofo francese ha tenuto tra il 1985 e il 1986, nel corso dedicato all’opera dell’amico Foucault, a un anno dalla …

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Michel Foucault. Edited by Elisabetta Basso. Binswanger and Existential Analysis General Editor: François Ewald. English Series Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough. Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Columbia University Press, 2025. In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis—Daseinsanalyse—developed by the Swiss …

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Cotter, S. Chomsky versus Foucault, and the Problem of Knowledge in Translation (2023) Know, 7 (2), pp. 171-183. DOI: 10.1086/727781 Extract […] With the advantage of several decades on Said’s 1999 essay, we may compare the Reflexive Water translation with the original debate, available on YouTube.13 Despite occasional markers of conversational verisimilitude (“yeah” or “may …

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Michel Foucault, “Message or noise?”, Translated by Christopher O’Neill, Parrhesia 39 · 2024 · 18-24 Open access Extract In order to “situate” medicine amongst other forms of knowledge (savoir), we have become accustomed to the use of linear schemas. Above the level of the body, the soul; below the level of the organism, the tissues. …

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Now published and on the shelves! Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self. Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024 ISBN-13: 9780226383446, Publication date: 2 January 2024, 208pp, Hardcover (First Edition): $35.00. Also published in multiple other formats. …

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Michel Foucault, Dossier Iran, Traduzione di Sajjad Lohi, Neri Pozza, 2023 A quasi quarantantacinque anni dalla nascita della Repubblica Islamica, l’Iran è attraversato da rivolte e scioperi che sfidano il potere delle autorità religiose. La rivoluzione iraniana sembra irrimediabilmente giunta alla sua fine. Di quell’evento, sorto tra il 1978 e il 1979, conserviamo una testimonianza …

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Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
1) INTRODUCTION I am providing a translation of the incipit as reproduced at the end of a pre-publication review of Michel Foucault’s forthcoming book PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. The review was published online by Philosophy Magazine and discusses the ideas expressed therein chiefly in structuralist-demarcationist terms, given that the book focuses on…

Now available for pre-order on the University of Chicago Press website. Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2024, ISBN-13: 9780226383446, Publication date: 01/15/2024, 208pp, Hardcover (First Edition): $35.00 Newly published lectures …

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