Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Fourth volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality published – Warwick news release

There is a Warwick news release of information about Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair, in which I briefly explain how the book fits within Foucault’s work and its importance. I’ve already agreed to write a longer review of the book, … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair – just picked up a copy

It’s officially published tomorrow, but I’ve just picked up a copy of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality – Les Aveux de la chair [Confessions, or Avowals, of the Flesh]. Some of the book is available to view here (essentially just … Continue reading

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Roger-Pol Droit on Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair

Roger-Pol Droit on Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair – “Foucault, les mots et les sexes” in Les Echos. There is relatively little about the book itself, and much of this sets the scene through Foucault’s career as a whole. … Continue reading

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Launch event for Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair – Paris, 17 February 2017

Launch event for Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair – Paris, 17 February 2017 (via Vrin)

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‘Michel Foucault: The Last Interview and Other Conversations’ on ‘indefinite hold’ – anyone know more?

Last year I started seeing notices for a book entitled Michel Foucault: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (for example, see Google Books or Rizzoli Bookstore). Online bookstores list it but do not stock it, and Worldcat suggests no libraries have … Continue reading

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France Culture on Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair

France Culture has a piece by Jacques Munier on Foucault’s Les aveux de la chair, which is described as ‘without doubt the last great unpublished work of philosophy of the twentieth century’. The book is due to be published by Gallimard … Continue reading

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Foucault’s visit to Attica prison in 1972

Update March 2026: A revised and expanded version of this post has been included in the ‘Sunday Histories’ series – Foucault’s 1972 visit to Attica prison In April 1972, during a visit to SUNY Buffalo, Foucault visited Attica prison. This was … Continue reading

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Philosophie Magazine issue on Foucault, including extract of Les Aveux de la chair

Philosophie Magazine has a new special issue on Foucault, including an extract from Les Aveux de la chair, the soon-to-be-published volume IV of the History of Sexuality. You can read some of the issue, though not the extract, on a viewer on the issue page. … Continue reading

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Foucault at the Movies (Columbia UP 2018), translated and edited by Clare O’Farrell, edited Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan

Foucault at the Movies (Columbia UP 2018), translated and edited by Clare O’Farrell, French edition edited by Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan. Forthcoming in July, this is a translation of Foucault va au cinéma (2011). Michel Foucault’s work on film, … Continue reading

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Books received – Soussloff and Favreau on Foucault, Kleinberg, Gandal, Höfele, Flynn on Sartre, Withers

Some recently received books – Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting; Jean-François Favreau, Vertiges de l’écriture : Michel Foucault et la littérature (1954-1970); Ethan Kleinberg, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past; Keith Gandal, The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, … Continue reading

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