Foucault News

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

Michel Foucault, Entretien inédit entre Michel Foucault et quatre militants de la LCR, membres de la rubrique culturelle du journal quotidien Rouge (juillet 1977) Pdf of interview Présentation Cet entretien a eu lieu dans les premiers jours du mois de juillet 1977. Animateurs de la rubrique culturelle du journal quotidien Rouge, nous avions le désir …

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Aut Aut. Foucault e la “Storia della follia” (1961-2011), no. 351, July-September 2011 MATERIALI 1 Michel Foucault “Non esiste cultura senza follia” [1961] Frédéric Gros Nota sulla “Storia della follia” Daniel Defert L’altra scena della pittura Pier Aldo Rovatti “Sarai un malato di mente” (una risposta ai detrattori di Foucault) Mario Colucci La storia negata …

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Michel Foucault, Le beau danger. Un entretien de Michel Foucault avec Claude Bonnefoy Édition établie et présentée par Philippe Artières Novembre 2011 – Ed. EHESS – Coll. Audiographie Pour la première fois publié, cet entretien de Michel Foucault avec le critique d’art Claude Bonnefoy nous révèle le penseur intime, qui déroule le fil de sa …

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Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, Human Nature: Justice vs Power. The Chomsky-Foucault debate, Edited by Fons Elders A new edition of this work released with a new introduction by Fons Elders: In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the twentieth century’s most influential public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel …

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You can find audio files of some of Foucault’s lectures posted on UbuWeb. See Stuart Elden’s blog Progressive Geographies for some corrections on the details listed on Ubuweb Truth & Subjectivity: Howison Lectures, UC Berkeley (1980, English) 4 lectures The Culture Of The Self, Berkley Lectures (1983) 3 Lectures These lectures by Foucault held at …

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From Iran Book News Agency. New translations of Foucault made by Afshin Jahandideh and Nikou Sarkhosh will appear in Tehran International Book Fair, including “Philosophy Theater” IBNA: Afshin Jahandideh one of the translators told IBNA: “This volume consists of Foucault’s shorter notes, lectures and interviews made since 1966 on three main bases of discourse, power …

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The Volume 37 Issue 3, Spring 2011, issue of Critical Inquiry features an important new translation of an interview with Foucault with Jean Le Bitoux and includes articles by Jean Le Bitoux and David Halperin about the fascinating publishing history of this interview. Jean Le Bitoux and Michel Foucault, “The Gay Science,” First complete translation …

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