Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Books received – Kojève, Mac Cumhaill & Wiseman, Bakewell, Foucault & Simon, Bloch, Brunet & Mahrer, Adluri & Bagchee

Some recently bought books, nearly all second-hand, and mostly connected to my Mapping Indo-European Thought project. Also includes the Turkish translation of the dialogue between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon, which I edited, and to which I contributed a new … Continue reading

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Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023

Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023 (requires subscription) From the Editor: Foucault and Arethusa Roger D. Woodard Introduction Simon Goldhill A Self-Interested Reader? Foucault and Imperial Greek Technical Texts Claire Hall Elephants, Christians, and Pagans in … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self – trans. Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024 Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the … Continue reading

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“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” – English text of the Turkish preface

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” was published in Theory, Culture & Society in 2017. The transcribed discussion was edited and introduced by me and there is an afterword by Jonathan Simon. This article … Continue reading

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Some of my highlights on Progressive Geographies in 2023

I didn’t publish much this past year – The Archaeology of Foucault has a 2023 date but was officially published in December 2022, and the special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Foucault was completed some time before. I … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading

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My favourite academic books of 2023

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading

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Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

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Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work

Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work.

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Books received – Antoniol, Foucault, Benveniste, Woodard

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt; Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures, edited by John Rajchman; and second-hand copies of Benveniste’s Problems in General Linguistics, Autour d’Émile Benveniste and Roger Woodard (ed.), The Ancient Languages … Continue reading

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