Foucault News

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

Thierry Voeltzel, Michel Foucault, Vingt ans et après. Suivi de Letzlove, l’anagramme d’une rencontre DATE DE PARUTION : 09/10/14 EDITEUR : Gallimard. Collection Verticales ISBN : 978-2-07-014665-9 EAN : 9782070146659 PRÉSENTATION : Broché NB. DE PAGES : 213 p. En 1978 paraît aux éditions Grasset, dans la collection ” Enjeux ” de Claude Mauriac, Vingt …

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Michel Foucault, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, Edited by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer 360 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2014 Further info Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault’s major works – his sole-authored books, plus some articles – will appear in a two-volume collection in 2015 as a prestigious Pléiade edition. Thanks to Colin Gordon for alerting me to the news. Frédéric Gros is interviewed about this here (in French). Among other things the interview says that the final Collège de France…

Hear Michel Foucault’s Lecture “The Culture of the Self,” Presented in English at UC Berkeley (1983), Open Culture, August 6th, 2014 Michel Foucault’s time in the United States in the last years of his life, particularly his time as a lecturer at UC Berkeley, proved to be extraordinarily productive in the development of his theoretical …

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Michel Foucault, Subjectivité et vérité. Cours au Collège de France (1980-1981), Gallimard Seuil, Collection Hautes Etudes Date de parution 02/05/2014 352 pages – 26.00 € TTC Publisher’s page « L’hypothèse de travail est celle-ci : il est vrai que la sexualité comme expérience n’est évidemment pas indépendante des codes et du système des interdits, mais …

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Philosophers DVD Author(s): Moderator and commentator Fons Elders Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault Sir Alfred Ayer and Arne Naess Leszek Kolakowski and Henri Lefèbvre Sir Karl Popper and Sir John Eccles A series by Fons Elders This DVD is available at a more reasonable price from Fons Elders’ site than from Icarus films. Review by Brian …

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Michel Foucault – Freedom and Knowledge Author(s): Edited by Fons Elders and Lionel Claris Elders Special Productions BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-805600-6-2 NUR 730 You can purchase this book as a paperback or an ebook. An extract can also be found on Lionel Claris’ academia.edu site and you can find a version of Lynne Huffer’s …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzoOhhh4aJg I’d not seen this before – fifteen minutes of video in preparation for the Chomsky debate between Foucault and Fons Elders. Thanks to Sjoerd van Tuinen and Elena Loizidou for sharing this. Update: Jeremy Crampton has more news on this here, including the link to the book of the…

Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B. Première parution en 1978 Postface d’Éric Fassin Nouvelle édition suivie d’Un scandale au couvent d’Oscar Panizza en 2014, Gallimard, 2014 En 1868 à Paris, rue de l’École-de-Médecine, un homme se donne la mort en laissant à la postérité un manuscrit autobiographique. C’est l’«Histoire d’Alexina B.» que publiera en …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Seuil now have a page up for Foucault’s 1980-81 lecture course Subjectivité et vérité, with a publication date of May 2014. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link. No great surprises in the publicity text, except perhaps for the explicit link to Christianity, which makes sense given the content of the…