Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Books received – Moyn, Pérez, Herring, Vatulescu, Marx, Foucault

Some books bought recently. Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times; Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle, trans. Andrew Brown; Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson … Continue reading

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Derrida, Arendt and Scholem

Books sent in recompense for review work for University of Chicago Press – three of the four volumes of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologies (the other one is out of print), Michel Foucault, What is Critique? and The Culture of the Self, … Continue reading

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Call for Abstracts – Michel Foucault and Phenomenology: The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis

Call for Abstracts: Michel Foucault and Phenomenology The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis Keynote Speakers: Philippe Sabot, Elisabetta Basso, Christophe Bouton The Southern Journal of Philosophyhttps://foucault40.info How is Michel Foucault’s thought related to the tradition … Continue reading

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Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024

Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024 Shame about the prohibitive price… Michel Foucault is rarely viewed as a philosopher of technology, yet academics and students routinely refer to his terms ‘technologies of power’, ‘governmental technologies’, and … Continue reading

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Books received – Foucault, Rose, Machold, Hoffman, Miller

Some books sent by editors or publishers – Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité, Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security, Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil and Paul Allen Miller (ed.), Truth in the Late Foucault – and Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism, … Continue reading

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Spanish and Chinese translations of Foucault’s Last Decade

Pleased to receive copies of the Spanish and Chinese translations of Foucault’s Last Decade La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes, Melusina, September 2004 福柯最后十年, Beijing Publishing Group, July 2024

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Stuart Elden, La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes – Melusina, September 2004

Stuart Elden, La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes, Melusina, September 2004 Pleased to hear that the Spanish translation of Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) has just been published. Many thanks to Albert Fuentes for the translation, and … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024

Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024 De 1961, date de son retour en France après plusieurs années passées en Suède, en Pologne et en Allemagne, jusqu’à la fin de sa vie, Michel Foucault a été très régulièrement … Continue reading

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Review of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil

My review of Marcelo Hoffman’s remarkable book Foucault in Brazil is scheduled to appear in Political Theory next year, but is now available online first. Many thanks to Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for asking me to write the review, and Marcelo for … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 23: Emile Benveniste and Georges Dumézil at the Collège de France, and an article on Alexandre Koyré

The chapter I’m currently working on for the Mapping Indo-European Thought project is a study of the two decades Benveniste and Dumézil were teaching in parallel at the Collège de France. I’ve been concentrating on Dumézil so far, but I plan to … Continue reading

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