Category Archives: Michel Foucault

If, like me, you are eagerly awaiting Foucault’s La société punitive, you’ll be disappointed to hear that the publication date has slipped again. It is on amazon.fr and various other sites with a date of 28 November [update 5 December], but … Continue reading →

In a previous post, I discussed the summary of a 1972 lecture Foucault gave in Minneapolis, entitled “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”. As far as I am aware the text of the lecture remains in Foucault’s own papers and was … Continue reading →

Madness and Civilization: An Anthology of Historical Texts has made available A selection from the second chapter La grand renfermement (‘The Great Confinement’) of Histoire de la folie by Michel Foucault (1961) which blends together both existing English translations (privileging … Continue reading →

On 7th April 1972, Foucault delivered a lecture under the title of “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”, in Minneapolis. This was published only in a brief English summary, written by Stephen Davidson, in Acta: Proceedings of the fourth … Continue reading →

I’ve previously posted about my finally getting a copy of the long out-of-print Michel Foucault, Power, Truth, Strategy – hard to find and generally expensive second-hand. This contains some translations of pieces by Foucault (many are in Power/Knowledge in different … Continue reading →

Thèse soutenue en philosophie sous la direction de Monsieur François Delaporte en novembre 2006 à l’Université de Picardie Jules Verne d’Amiens (80) – Mention ‘Très honorable et félicitations du jury’. Download here. Le premier texte de Michel Foucault sur la prison … Continue reading →