Foucault News

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

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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Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and The Arts, Warwick University On the afternoon of 29 January 2013 we hosted a special public lecture by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. The one-hour lecture was entitled ‘General Organology, Digital Studies and the Neurosciences’ and offered a succinct account of some of the major preoccupations of Stiegler’s groundbreaking …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about 24 minutes in which I’ve filled with a rerecorded section of…

Bernard Harcourt, Foucault, retour sur l’aveu. Entretien Audio broadcast France Culture Pdf of Transcript A la fin de sa vie, Michel Foucault est revenu sur la question de l’aveu dans la justice pénale près de vingt ans après la série de conférences à Rio sur “la vérité et les formes juridiques » et bien sûr après …

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La folie et la fête. Michel Foucault (1963) Text from youtube Premier temps d’une série de cinq émissions intitulée « L’usage de la parole : les langages de la folie ». Pour l’interprétation des textes Michel Foucault est accompagné de Marguerite Cassan, Pierre Delpont, Abel Jacquin, Catherine Le Couey et de Claude Martin. Émission radio, …

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