Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault books received

Two new books – the Blackwell A Companion to Foucault, and the new collection La grande étrangère. I’ll be reviewing the Companion for Cultural Geographies. It looks really good including a translation of Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronology’ from Dits et écrits … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s History of Sexuality – an updated table

In 2005 I published a piece entitled ‘The Problem of Confession’, freely available here. which had a lot of discussion of Foucault’s different plans for his History of Sexuality and the issues that revolved around them. That piece had a … Continue reading →

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Foucault lecture at Memorial University Newfoundland – audio recording

The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about … Continue reading →

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Books received

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Foucault’s La grande étrangère – previously unpublished texts on literature

A collection of Foucault’s writings on literature – La grande étrangère: À propos de littérature – has recently been published in France. It seems the ‘no posthumous publications’ injunction is well and truly abandoned. This volume includes pieces on Sade, … Continue reading →

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Robert Castel, cinquante ans de pugnacité sociologique Jean-François Laé 13 mars 2013 Site Mediapart Directeur d’études à l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Robert Castel, né à Brest en 1933, est mort à…

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Michel Foucault, Speech begins after Death

Michel Foucault – Speech begins after Death. A book of interviews with Claude Bonnefoy.

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Warren Montag – Althusser and His Contemporaries

Coming soon from Duke University Press.

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French Television Coverage of Foucault’s Death

Never seen these before – thanks to Clare at Foucault News for the links. French Television Coverage of Michel Foucault in 1984 (pt 1) French Television Coverage of Michel Foucault in 1984 (pt 2)

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Lectures in Newfoundland

I’m giving a few lectures at Memorial University of Newfoundland next week. The main reason I am going is to give the George M. Storey lecture in the Humanities, but a few other events have been arranged including a visit to … Continue reading →

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