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Foucault, History of Sexuality Vol IV, Les Aveux de la Chair scheduled for January 2018

I’ve mentioned before that the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Les aveux de la chair, was finally going to be published. It is now appearing in online bookstores with a January 2018 date – see, for example, Les … Continue reading

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The Early Foucault update 10: translations of Binswanger, von Weizsäcker and by ‘G-J Verdeaux’

After a too-short holiday, I’ve been back working on the Foucault book. Although I’d drafted some of this material before, my focus has been on the translations of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker. With Binswanger’s ‘Dream and Existence’, Foucault was not … Continue reading

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Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France – audio re-recording

Leçon inaugurale de Michel Foucault – L’ordre du discours Quelle est cette volonté de vérité dans nos discours, qui a traversé tant de siècles de notre histoire ? demande Michel Foucault dans sa leçon inaugurale. Qu’est ce qui est en … Continue reading

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Books received – Eribon, von Weizsäcker, Althusser, Žižek, Wyrsch, Foucault, Funnell & Dodds, Bier

Some recently received books – Eribon, von Weizsäcker, Wyrsch, Bochner & Halpern, and The Cambridge Companion for the research on the early Foucault, plus Althusser, Žižek and Lisa Funnell & Klaus Dodds’s Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond in recompense for … Continue reading

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Gary Shapiro, Nietzsche’s Earth: Great Events, Great Politics reviewed at NDPR

Gary Shapiro, Nietzsche’s Earth: Great Events, Great Politics is reviewed at NDPR by Gabriel Zamosc. This book offers a valuable and provocative contribution to the growing literature on Nietzsche’s political philosophy. It invites us to understand Nietzsche’s politics as consisting … Continue reading

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The Early Foucault update 9: from Shakespeare back to Foucault and Canguilhem

I’ve spent most of the first half of the summer revising my Shakespeare manuscript, which is now resubmitted. But I have been doing a little work on the early Foucault in the meantime, and on Canguilhem. With the latter, much … Continue reading

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Adventures in Phenomenology: Gaston Bachelard – forthcoming with SUNY Press

Adventures in Phenomenology: Gaston Bachelard, edited by Eileen Rizo-Patron, Edward S. Casey and Jason M. Wirth – forthcoming with SUNY Press. Currently listed only as an expensive hardback, hopefully a paperback edition will follow. Like Schelling before him and Deleuze and … Continue reading

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Shakespeare and Nietzsche, Garrick’s Temple, September 2nd 2017

Shakespeare and Nietzsche, Garrick’s Temple, September 2nd 2017 On Saturday September 2, 2017 Shakespeare at the Temple -symposium returns to Garrick’s Temple with a fourth event, this time on Shakespeare and Nietzsche with talks by Katie Brennan, Paul Kottman, Bjorn Quiring, Tracy Strong … Continue reading

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sforzini, Foucault, Doel

The latest volume of the Arden Shakespeare, Arianna Sforzini’s Les Scènes de la Vérité: Michel Foucault et le Théâtre, the issue of NRF with a previously unpublished piece by Foucault, and Marcus Doel’s Geographies of Violence. Doel’s book is the … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power forthcoming in Chinese translation

Both Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power are now forthcoming in Chinese translation with Beijing Publishing Group. Both books are also forthcoming in Korean with Nanjing Publishing House.

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