Foucault News

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

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, authored by Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nanuet and Jean-Marie Domenich, which I translated for this site a couple of years ago, has been reprinted in Viewpoint magazine. The prison group, along with Foucault’s involvement in the parallel health group and other activist work are…

Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self. Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, University of Chicago Press, 2015. Translated by Graham Burchell Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini Introduction and critical apparatus by Laura Cremonesi, Arnold I. Davidson, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli 160 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 …

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Michel Foucault: a mente mais brilhante do século XX [+32 livros para download gratuito] Michel Foucault é um dos maiores filósofos da contemporaneidade, foi responsável por novos caminhos na análise do poder e da história e tem relevância acadêmica fora de série. Abaixo você verá uma introdução sobre sua vida, 17 artigos sobre Foucault no …

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La marche de l’histoire. Michel Foucault, France Inter Radio Invité Philippe Artières Historien, chercheur au CNRS Il avait mesuré que l’intervention des intellectuels passait de plus en plus par l’essai bref et le plateau télé et encore n’a-t-il pas connu l’économie du web 2.0. Puisque la discontinuité est de mise, il disait par provocation qu’advenait …

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Michel Foucault: The rights and duties of international citizenship (2015) The front page of the Open Democracy Site, 14 November 2015 Also includes links to the following items: Michel Foucault “The refugee problem is a presage of the great migrations of the twenty first century”, 1979. Translated by Colin Gordon. Colin Gordon, The drowned and …

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Plateau Simone Signoret, Michel Foucault 06 oct. 1982, Antenne 2, Site l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel présentateur Christine Ockrent Christine OCKRENT interviewe l’actrice Simone SIGNORET et le philosophe Michel FOUCAULT sur la situation en Pologne, où le syndicat Solidarité vient d’être interdit par le gouvernement. – Simone SIGNORET, qui porte un badge du syndicat polonais “Solidarité”, …

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André Glucksmann par Michel Foucault, Le Nouvel Observateur Le philosophe des “Maîtres penseurs” est mort à 78 ans. Celui de “Surveiller et punir” l’avait lu, pour “le Nouvel Observateur”, en 1977. Voici son texte, dans son intégralité. Article de Michel Foucault sur “les Maîtres penseurs”, paru dans “le Nouvel Observateur” du 9 mai 1977 La …

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Rosie Smith, Book Review: Foucault’s ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’. The Sociological Imagination, 2015 Michel Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lecture series ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’ is a wonderfully insightful book. It provides a detailed examination of the role of truth-telling throughout antiquity and its development into a key stone of contemporary European juridical proceedings. Specifically, Foucault investigates, within the discourse of …

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Editor: Palgrave Macmillan have kindly offered a 30% discount to readers of Foucault News on books in their Foucault collection Works included in this collection are The Punitive Society and Michel Foucault: A Research Companion The full price on the latter work has been reduced since I last posted on this. I will repost again …

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September 2023: See updated details on Progressive Geographies From: History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online | Progressive Geographies History of the Present, the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley is available online. I’d been looking for copies …

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