Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, hors-série Les Essentiels 16, April-May 2024

Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024 Il y a quarante ans, le 25 juin 1984, Michel Foucault disparaissait, emporté par le sida. Il avait 57 ans. Cette mort interrompait une existence prolifique et turbulente. Bâtir une … Continue reading

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Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century – Toronto, 29-30 May 2024

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Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access)

Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access) From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 19: back to Dumézil, politics, and Benveniste in Persia and Afghanistan

Since the last update on this project, I have begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. This is another fascinating period, partly because of the range of books he published – 14 in 11 … Continue reading

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Books received – Chevallier, Behrent, Testa, Bloch & Febvre, Kadercan, Barthes, Koyré

Some books I’ve mentioned here recently – Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le christianisme: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years; Federico Testa (ed.), Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – a special issue of Revue … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et je n’ai écrit sur Nietzsche qu’un tout … Continue reading

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“Foucault and Structuralism” – a book chapter for Daniele Lorenzini’s collection The Foucauldian Mind

I recently wrote a book chapter on “Foucault and Structuralism” for The Foucauldian Mind, edited by my friend and former Warwick colleague Daniele Lorenzini. It’s been an interesting diversion from the other work. Contrary to my usual practice, where I … Continue reading

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) – book launch 16 April 2024, Pace University

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) – book launch 16 April 2024, Pace University

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The Archaeology of Foucault reviewed by David Beer in The Times Literary Supplement

My 2023 book The Archaeology of Foucault is generously reviewed by David Beer in The Times Literary Supplement The review requires subscription, but email me if you can’t access a copy through an institution. Imagine Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes … Continue reading

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Books received – Martin, Specter, Trubetzkoy, Hoffman, Strauss (and Kojève), Lincoln

A collection of essays on Emile Benveniste; Matthew Specter, Habermas: An Intellectual Biography; Nicolai Trubetzkoy, The Legacy of Genghis Khan and Other Essays on Russia’s Identity; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity; Leo Strauss, On Tyranny, which … Continue reading

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