Foucault News

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

Special Issue: Foucault Before the Collège de France, Theory, Culture and Society, Volume 40 Issue 1-2, January-March 2023 Foucault Before the Collège de France Stuart Elden Orazio Irrera Daniele Lorenzini Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel? Pierre Macherey Foucault and the History of Anthropology: Man, before the ‘Death of Man’ Arianna Sforzini Michel …

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Michel Foucault, Madness, Language, Literature Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel Translated by Robert Bononno The University of Chicago Press, 2023 Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less …

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Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction and critical apparatus by Daniele Lorenzini & Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, The University of Chicago Press Forthcoming late 2023, early 2024 This volume is part of The Chicago Foucault Project Description (adapted from …

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Richard Sennett and Michel Foucault, Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979) New Books Network, 2 Feb 2023. [See site for recording] In 1979, sociologist and NYIH founder Richard Sennett, and philosopher Michel Foucault, discussed the connections between the history of sexuality and self consciousness. In this episode from the Vault, the two discuss …

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MICHEL FOUCAULT WERNER SCHROETER, LA CONVERSATION (CARNET FILMÉ : 3 décembre 1981) Année : 1981. Durée : 1 H 30′ Voir aussi BNF Catalogue Général An English translation of the conversation between Foucault and Schroeter can be found in Foucault at the Movies Fiche technique : Réalisation, montage, son, effets spéciaux : Gérard Courant. Voix …

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New translations of Alternatives à la prison (2022) The lecture given by Foucault on alternatives to prison in 1976 at the University of Montreal was published and commented on in Foucault in Montreal (2021) published by Éditions de la rue Dorion. A shortened version of this book was published, in France, by Éditions Divergences. This …

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Foucault, M. (2022). Linguistics and Social Sciences. Theory, Culture & Society, First published online June 20, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221091549 Abstract Written with the suppression of the Tunisian students by their own government in view, Michel Foucault’s March 1968 ‘Linguistics and Social Sciences’ opens up a new horizon of historical inquiry and epitomises Foucault’s abiding interest in …

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Polan, Dana, Review, H-France Review, Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 149, pp.1-4. Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, and Dork Zabunyan, Foucault at the Movies, ed. and trans. Clare O’Farrell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018 First, let’s get the issue of the title out of the way: Michel Foucault, it seems, was in his adult years …

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Editor: Perlego, an ebook library launched in 2016, offers a paid subscription service to access a variety of academic and professional ebooks. They have a very substantial collection of currently 431 books relating to Foucault, mainly in English, but also in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. The collection also includes a selection of works …

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27/11/1967 – Rai Teche. Intervista a Michel Foucault in occasione della pubblicazione in italiano di «Les mots et les choses, une archéologie des sciences humaines», 1966 («Le parole e le cose. Un’archeologia delle scienze umane», trad. it. 1967). “Archeologica” è infatti la procedura con la quale Foucault tenta di ricostruire le condizioni di possibilità, la …

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