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Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Pantheon, November 2021 This is really welcome news – Danchev’s biographies of Georges Braque and Paul Cézanne were very interesting. This book was left incomplete at the time of his death, but has been … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
The Foucault Circle NL/BE invites you to join Professor Marcelo Hoffman for a talk on his latest book Date: April 26 2021 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Central European Time Location: Online (Zoom link shared upon…

Stéphane Castonguay, The Government of Natural Resources: Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939 – UBC Press, April 2021 (paperback due January 2022) The Government of Natural Resources explores the development of scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault’s Confessions, May 4-June 3 2021 Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m., free and open to the public. For more information and to register, visit foucaultsconfessions.org. (See also this news item on the Rice University…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Daniel Bensaïd, The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor – University of Minnesota Press, translated by Robert Nichols, March 2021 https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image-2.jpg The politics of dispossession are everywhere. Troubling…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault Studies, Number 29, 9 April 2021 Special Issue: Foucault’s History of Sexuality Vol. 4, Confessions of the Flesh Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Barbara Cruikshank, Bregham Dalgliesh, Knut Ove Eliassen, Varena Erlenbusch, Alex Feldman,…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Portrait of Paul M. Rabinow by Saâd A. Tazi, during his Blaise Pascal professorship at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm, Paris. Christopher Ying, UC Berkeley professor emeritus Paul Rabinow dies at age 76, The…

Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France – University of Chicago Press, May 2021 There is a discussion of the book here. From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy … Continue reading →

Jean-Marie Guyau, The Ethics of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines, edited by Keith Ansell Pearson and Federico Testa – Bloomsbury, October 2021 This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by … Continue reading →