Foucault News

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

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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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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