Foucault News

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

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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Michel Foucault, Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. Cours au College de France, 1970-1. Suivi de Le savoir d’Oedipe, Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2011. Description Voici la transcription de la première année des cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France. Sa publication marquera une date dans la « réception » de Foucault. On ne pourra plus …

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Patrice Maniglier et Dork Zabunyan, Foucault va au cinéma., Montrouge: Editions Bayard, Collection La logique des images, 2011 A workshop on 11 February 2011 and a subsequent cinema program in association with the book took place in Nice. See here for a video of the program. See also this press release You can can also …

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