Foucault News

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

Letzlove, portrait(s) Foucault Adaptation de Pierre Maillet d’après Vingt ans et après / Letzlove l’anagramme d’une rencontre de Thierry Voeltzel mise en scène Pierre Maillet Du mar. 28/02/17 au sam. 04/03/17 Rouen Du mar. 25/04/17 au jeu. 27/04/17 Brest Critiques Présentation Eté 1975. Un jeune homme fait du stop sur l’autoroute en direction de Caen. …

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Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives By Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault Edited by Nancy Luxon Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton University of Minnesota Press | 344 pages | January 2017 ISBN 978-0-8166-9534-8 | jacketed cloth | $35.00 First published in French in 1982, this first English translation of Disorderly Families contains ninety-four letters …

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Foucault and the Making of Subjects Edited by Laura Cremonesi; Orazio Irrera; Daniele Lorenzini and Martina Tazzioli, Rowman & Littlefield imprint. Bloomsbury, 2016 Michel Foucault’s account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a “subject of” and being “subject to” political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences …

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Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon. Edited and transcribed by Stuart Elden.Theory, Culture & Society May 10, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0263276416640070 Abstract This article is a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been published and is …

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Foucault : “Mes livres sont des espèces de petits pétards…“ En juin 1975, Roger-Pol Droit enregistrait de longs entretiens avec le philosophe Michel Foucault en vue d’un livre qui fut abandonné. Inédit. PROPOS RECUEILLIS PAR ROGER-POL DROIT Publié le 06/12/2015 | Le Point This article is for purchase. Dans cet extrait inédit, il parle de …

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Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité. Précédé de La parrêsia. Édition et apparat critique établis par H.-P. Fruchaud et D. Lorenzini. Introduction par F. Gros. Vrin – Philosophie du présent 320 pages – 12,5 × 18 cm ISBN 978-2-7116-2656-4 – février 2016 À l’automne 1983, Michel Foucault prononce, à l’Université de Californie à Berkeley, un cycle …

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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The manifesto of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, authored by Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Nanuet and Jean-Marie Domenich, which I translated for this site a couple of years ago, has been reprinted in Viewpoint magazine. The prison group, along with Foucault’s involvement in the parallel health group and other activist work are…

Michel Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self. Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980, University of Chicago Press, 2015. Translated by Graham Burchell Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini Introduction and critical apparatus by Laura Cremonesi, Arnold I. Davidson, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, Martina Tazzioli 160 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 …

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Michel Foucault: a mente mais brilhante do século XX [+32 livros para download gratuito] Michel Foucault é um dos maiores filósofos da contemporaneidade, foi responsável por novos caminhos na análise do poder e da história e tem relevância acadêmica fora de série. Abaixo você verá uma introdução sobre sua vida, 17 artigos sobre Foucault no …

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