Foucault News

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

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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Editor: Reblogged from Stuart Elden’s site Progressive Geographies Foucault was interviewed in 1975 for a Brazilian paper: Q: In your work, the State seems to occupy a privileged place. And the State represents a privileged instance for understanding historical-cultural formations. Could you specify the conditions of possibility which underpin the State? A: It is true …

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Michel Foucault va faire son entrée dans La Pléiade, L’œuvre du philosophe sera publiée le 5 novembre par la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, aux éditions Gallimard. Le Monde.fr avec AFP | 20.07.2015 à 19h13 Michel Foucault va faire, bientôt, son entrée dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. C’est le 5 novembre, a confirmé au Monde Gallmard, que paraîtront …

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Source: Assassines: Le Blog de Farès Sassine: Entretien inedit avec Michel Foucault 1979 Friday, 22 August 2014 Entretien inedit avec Michel Foucault 1979 Cet entretien d’août 1979 a longtemps été inédit en français. Il n’a été publié dans sa langue originelle qu’en 2013 dans la luxueuse revue annuelle lyonnaise Rodéo précédé et suivi d’un dossier …

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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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