Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire. On Literature, University of Minnesota Press, 2015 Edited by Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, and Judith Revel Translated by Robert Bononno As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And …

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Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973, Editors: Bernard E. Harcourt, François Ewald, Alessandro Fontana, Trans. Graham Burchell, Palgrave Macmillan, September 2015 ‘Unfortunately, when we teach morality, when we study the history of morals, we always analyze the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and do not read [Colquhoun], this …

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L’Essai et la revue du jour par Jacques Munier France Culture, 9 June 2015 Audio Michel Foucault : Théories et institutions pénales. Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972 (EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil) « C’est un document exceptionnel » préviennent les éditeurs François Ewald et Bernard E. Harcourt dans le texte qu’ils consacrent à la Situation du cours, à …

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The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought​ and The Hispanic Institute for Latin American & Iberian Cultures are proud to invite you to the release of the last volume of Michel Foucault’s series of seminars at the Collège de France: Foucault and May 68: Penal Theories and Institutions (Collège de France Lectures, 1971-1972) (Hautes Études, …

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Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? Suivie de La culture de soi Édition établie par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini Introduction et apparat critique par D. Lorenzini et A.I. Davidson Vrin – Philosophie du présent 192 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2624-3 – mars 2015 PDF Table des matières Le 27 mai 1978, …

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Michael Bibby, Selections from Foucault’s Lectures on ‘Security, Territory, Population’ at the College de France (1977-78) “Michel Foucault’s art consisted in using history to cut diagonally through contemporary reality. He could speak of Nietzsche or Aristotle, of expert psychiatric opinion or the Christian pastoral, but those who attended his lectures always took from what he …

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Michel Foucault. Genealogie del presente, Con un’intervista a Michel Foucault e un’intervista a Daniel Defert Saggi di Laura Cremonesi, Daniele Lorenzini, Orazio Irrera, Martina Tazzioli, Paolo B. Vernaglione Manifestolibri, 2015 Further info Dall’Introduzione al volume: L’occasione di questa pubblicazione è stato il trentennale della scomparsa di Michel Foucault. Nel 2014 in tutto il mondo convegni …

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Michael Bibby, Foucault’s Lectures on ‘Psychiatric Power’ at the Collège de France (1973-74) Notes on selections Here is a selection I have made from Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France between 1973-4, translated by Graham Burchell, and published by Macmillan in 2006 with the title Psychiatric Power. The first thing I think that should …

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Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt (eds.), Stephen W. Sawyer (tr.), University of Chicago Press, 2014, 344pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226257709. Reviewed by Todd May, Clemson University, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13 January 2015 This volume consists of six lectures, preceded by an inaugural lecture and …

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