Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault, The Mesh of Power, Viewpoint Magazine, 2 (September 2012). Translated by Christopher Chitty Full article online We will attempt to proceed towards an analysis of the concept of power. I am not the first, far from it, to attempt to skirt around the Freudian schema that pits instinct against suppression [répression], instinct against …

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Michel Foucault, La grande étrangère: À propos de littérature. Édité et présenté par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville et Judith Revel. Paris: Editions EHESS. mars 2013 Publisher’s page Michel Foucault entretient avec la littérature une relation complexe, critique, stratégique. Les documents inédits qui composent le présent volume en témoignent magnifiquement.. Sade, Cervantes, Artaud, Shakespeare….Le …

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Michel Foucault (2013) Speech begins after death, University of Minnesota Press. $24.95 cloth/jacket ISBN 978-0-8166-8320-8 96 pages, 5 x 8, March 2013 In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing …

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La folie et la fête. Michel Foucault (1963) Text from youtube Premier temps d’une série de cinq émissions intitulée « L’usage de la parole : les langages de la folie ». Pour l’interprétation des textes Michel Foucault est accompagné de Marguerite Cassan, Pierre Delpont, Abel Jacquin, Catherine Le Couey et de Claude Martin. Émission radio, …

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Editor: Philippe Theophanidis on his blog Aphelis links to a complete recording on YouTube of the Foucault-Chomsky debate and provides detailed background on the history of the recording and the various versions and publications of the transcript. The Chomsky-Foucault Debate On Human Nature, New York: The New Press, 2006, pp. 57-58. Content of the transcript …

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Michel Foucault, Lectures on the Will to Know. Edited by Daniel Defert. Translated by Graham Burchell. Series: Michel Foucault: Lectures at the Collège de France. Palgrave Macmillan. Description This volume gives us the transcription of the first of Michel Foucault’s annual courses at the Collège de France. Its publication marks a milestone in Foucault’s reception …

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UChicago Professor Helps Uncover Lost Lectures by French Philosopher Foucault, 7 February 2013 Source Newsroom: University of Chicago Newswise — More than 30 years ago, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a landmark series of seven lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium In them, Foucault linked his early and late work—exploring the role …

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