Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Clare O’Farrell commentaries on interviews in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983

Posted on July 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell is beginning a series of commentaries on the interviews in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983, Flammarion/VRIN/INA, 2024. Foucault, Radio Interview 1: The phenomenon of madness Foucault, Radio Interview 2: Madness silenced And for her initial review of the volume as a … Continue reading →

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Hadi Fakhoury ed., New Perspectives on Henry Corbin – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2025

Posted on July 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Hadi Fakhoury ed., New Perspectives on Henry Corbin – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2025 This collection brings together scholars from various fields to explore the work, life, and legacy of Henry Corbin (1903–1978), a towering figure in the modern study of … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Posted on July 20, 2025 by stuartelden

This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Emmanuel Levinas, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Hannah Arendt, Henri Lefebvre, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Maurice Blanchot, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Stefanos Geroulanos, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025

Posted on July 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025 thanks to Foucault News for the link What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Denman, Jakobson, Harari, Derrida, Foucault, Fischer-Jørgensen

Posted on July 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Derek S. Denman, Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control, second-hand copies of Roman Jakobson, Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning, Josué V. Harari, Scenarios of the Imaginary, Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, Trends in Phonological Theory: A Historical Introduction, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Roman Jakobson | 3 Comments

CFP: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy – June 2026

Posted on July 12, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy – June 2026 Discipline Filosofiche, XXXVI, 2, 2026: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy, ed. by Elisabetta Basso and Andrea Cavazzini In Michel Foucault’s published and unpublished writings, between Naissance de la Clinique … Continue reading →

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CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

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CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

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Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard update October 2025: the database is now available. Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued … Continue reading →

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Eugenio Donato and “The Structuralist Controversy” conference – proceedings, recordings, Foucault and Flaubert

Posted on July 6, 2025 by stuartelden

The 18-21 October 1966 Baltimore conference on structuralism has long been recognised as important for the reception of French theory in the United States. Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Lucien Goldmann, Jean Hyppolite, Jacques Lacan and Jean-Pierre Vernant were some of … Continue reading →

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