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Roundup of media discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair (mostly French)

Some of the media discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair. Will add other pieces as I see them – do add comments if you know of more. Michel Foucault, culture physique – FranceCulture podcast Il est comment le … Continue reading

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Politique et morale chez Foucault. Entre la critique et le nominalisme (2018)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Monica Loyola Stival, Politique et morale chez Foucault. Entre la critique et le nominalisme, Paris: L’Harmattan La philosophie en commun PHILOSOPHIE Dans la sphère anthropologique ou dans la sphère politique, la manière dont Foucault élabore…

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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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The Society of Captives Today: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary – University of Leicester 27-28 June 2018

Originally posted on Prof Dominique Moran:
A conference  is being co-organised by the University of Cambridge and the University of Leicester, to mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of Gresham Sykes’s The Society of Captives. Click here for details. The…

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Radical Philosophy is relaunched as open access journal

One of the few journals that I have read continually since my days as a postgraduate, Radical Philosophy is now relaunched as open access journal. Not only is all new content free-to-access, so too is the rich archive of material … 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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John Lechte’s overview of Kristeva’s work

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
At the TLS.

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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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Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom – translated collection of previously unpublished writings forthcoming from Bloomsbury

Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom – forthcoming from Bloomsbury Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon’s work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day. Alienation … Continue reading

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