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

Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, Paris, Vrin, coll. « Philosophie du présent / Foucault inédit », 2013 (168 pages, ISBN 978-2-7116-2509-3, 14€). Édition établie par Henri-Paul Fruchaud et Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction et apparat critique par L. Cremonesi, A.I. Davidson, O. Irrera, D. Lorenzini, M. Tazzioli. En novembre …

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From the Critical Theory blog Eugene Wolters, Listen to Foucault Lecture in English: The Culture of the Self, 27 September 2013 In the following audio recording, Michel Foucault lectures at UC Berkeley in 1983, a year before his death, on the subject “The Culture of the Self.” Foucault starts with a story written by Greek …

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Source Variazioni foucaultiani [Editor: 13 April 2026. Details and links updated.] The translated article can be found here Michel Foucault, “Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur.” Critical Inquiry 47, no. 1 (2020): 121–34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48799742. See also Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, “Introduction to Michel Foucault’s ‘Political Spirituality as the Will …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In a previous post, I discussed the summary of a 1972 lecture Foucault gave in Minneapolis, entitled “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”. As far as I am aware the text of the lecture remains in Foucault’s own papers and was never published. It was published in a brief English summary,…

materiali foucaultiani Volume II, number 3 (January-June 2013) ISSN 2239-5962 See site for full texts of articles TABLE OF CONTENTS Michel Foucault: un phénomène de bibliothèque? Spunti di riflessione a partire da un’installazione di Joseph Kosuth  (pp. 3-9) Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli Foucault e la letteratura Introduzione. Sulle ragioni di una …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
This text was co-authored by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nacquet and Jean-Marie Domenach, and was first read at a news conference on 8 February 1971. It was subsequently published in Esprit in March 1971. As far as I know, the only partial translations of this important document are found in the English edition…

Michel Foucault présente son livre “Les mots et les choses” 08 févr. 1967 Depuis Tunis, Pierre SERRA interviewe Michel FOUCAULT à propos de son dernier livre “Les mots et les choses” : ce qu’il a voulu faire dans ce livre. Origine récente de la question : qu’est-ce que l’Homme ? d’où vient la notion d’humanisme? …

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