Foucault News

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

Thinking Allowed: Michel Foucault (2013) Program on BBC Radio 4 Duration: 28 minutes First broadcast: Wednesday 21 August 2013 Michel Foucault – Laurie Taylor presents a special programme on the life and work of the iconoclastic French philosopher and theorist. He’s joined by Professor Stephen Shapiro, Professor Vikki Bell and Professor Lois McNay. Stephen Shapiro …

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10 mars 1975 Jacques CHANCEL s’entretient avec le philosophe, professeur au Collège de France, Michel FOUCAULT. Emission diffusée le 10 mars 1975 sur France Inter. [Editor: Update 14 March 2026. No longer available online. You may be able to find a transcription in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024] – Générique début – A …

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Présentation “Dits et écrits” de Michel Foucault Includes some footage of Foucault 06 déc. 1994 Après un extrait de “Lecture pour tous” du 15 juin 1966, François EWALD présente les “Dits et écrits” de Michel Foucault , textes écrits par le philosophe de 1954 à sa mort en 1984, en France et dans le monde …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There are audio recordings of Foucault at various places online. This post attempts to make sense of them. Comments and additions gratefully received. update 9 Dec 2014 – see this page for a better, reorganised chronological list. Ubuweb has the following: ‘Discourse and Truth: Parrhesia’, UC Berkeley, October 24-November 21…

Philosophers: Debates and Dialogues A series by Fons Elders Released by Icarus Films, New York Update September 2025. This series is no longer available from Icarus films and the link above is to their page as it is archived on the Wayback Machine. The Chomsky Foucault debate can now be found on YouTube however Text …

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Italian Philosopher Roberto Esposito is the author of such works as Communitas and Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy. This is the first section of a talk – see other uploaded clips for the remainder. With thanks to Dirk Felleman for this link Philippe Theophanidis sent the following information to Foucault News: This lecture by Roberto Esposito …

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John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism in French Philosophy From the Open Culture site, July 1 2013 It is sometimes noted–typically with admiration–that France is a place where a philosopher can still be a celebrity. It sounds laudable. But celebrity culture can be corrosive, both to the culture at large and to the celebrities …

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WE ARE THE TIME: Art Lives in the Age of Global Transition, this conference-festival took place between March 12 and March 16, 2012 at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Gabriëlle Schleijpen, head of Studium Generale Rietveld Academie invited Aneta Szyłak, Grant Watson, Jorinde Seijdel and Alfredo Cramerotti to each inaugurate a discursive and performative program …

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In French with no subtitles. From a series titled Le Temps des Philosophes. 4. Philosophie et Vérité. Entretien entre Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Foucault, Dina Dreyfus and Alain Badiou. The original program was produced by Radio-Télévision scolaire in 1965 and released on VHS in 1993 by the Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique. …

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Lecture starts at 9 mins 30 (Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, argues that genealogies (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault) present the revenge of naturalism on rationalism. Hegel teaches us how to replace the genealogical hermeneutics of suspicion with a hermeneutics of magnanimity that allows us to see naturalism and rationalism …

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