Foucault News

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

Mills, J., & Thue Bjørndal, C. (2025). Endurance running coaching’s mechanical topography: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of coaches’ knowledges. Sports Coaching Review, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2025.2541142 ABSTRACT Michel Foucault was part of a French revolution of history seeking deeper understandings of history beyond narratives of “great men” and their events. As a historian of the body and …

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Tivadar Vervoort, “Nous Sommes Tous Néokantiens”: Foucault, Lukács, and the Critique of Social Forms, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2025 15:1, 209-241 Abstract In his introduction to Canguilhem’s Le normal et le pathologique, Michel Foucault claims that the “question of Enlightenment” has been taken up differently …

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Stuart Elden, Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available, Progressive Geographies, July 13, 2025 La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued much of Foucault and Defert’s personal library, which will soon …

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Martin Duru, “Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983” : les bonnes ondes de Michel Foucault, Philosophie Magazine, 22 octobre 2024 « On écrit pour n’avoir plus de visage », disait-il. Là-bas il n’en avait plus, de visage, il n’y était plus qu’une voix (presque) anonyme, et c’est peut-être pour cette raison que Foucault aimait tant y aller : …

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Jubb, D. ‘It was pop that was making the bread’: Accounting and musical space at Abbey Road studios (2023) Accounting History, 28 (2), pp. 285-311. DOI: 10.1177/10323732231155932 Abstract This research considers the relationship between accounting and physical space, focusing on the creation of musical recordings within the musical and ‘magical’ space of Abbey Road Studios …

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Vatter, M. (2019). Liberal Governmentality and the Political Theology of Constitutionalism. In B. Leijssenaar & N. Walker (Eds.), Sovereignty in Action (pp. 115-143). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108692502.006 Summary ‘The king reigns but does not govern’. This formula, which according to Carl Schmitt was coined by Adolphe Thiers, a French liberal historian and politician, enemy …

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Originally posted on affecognitive:
Lectures on the Will to Know (Leçons sur la volonté de savoir) contains Michel Foucault’s inaugural lectures at the Collège de France from December 1970 to March 1971. The published text gathers Foucault’s written notes and manuscripts into a considered presentation of what his oration might have been. I stress the…

He, Q. Avowal or Obedience: Foucault on the Solution to the Dilemma of Examination of Conscience and Its Influences (2023) Logos and Pneuma – Chinese Journal of Theology, 2023 (58), pp. 169-195. Note: This article is in Chinese Abstract Michel Foucault analyzed the ideas of John Cassian, a Church Father who lived in the 4th …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Samuel Lindholm, Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era – Routledge, September 2023 A prohibitively priced hardback only at this point… This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of biopolitics and the connection between this and the technology of sovereign power, which disregards or eliminates life. By analyzing…