Progressive Geographies

Chevallier, Philippe. « Foucault avant Foucault », Archives de Philosophie, vol. 85, no. 3, 2022, pp. 151-156.
https://doi.org/10.3917/aphi.853.0151

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En 2013, la Bibliothèque nationale de France a acquis les archives de Michel Foucault, désormais réparties dans 117 boîtes de conservation, complétées depuis par quelques dons de ses proches (comprenant par exemple son mémoire de maîtrise sur Hegel). Nul n’avait soupçonné l’étendue de ce cabinet de travail temporel, témoignage de près de quarante ans de recherche, les notes les plus anciennes étant celles des cours suivis à l’École normale supérieure, qu’il intégra en 1946. Recelant à la fois des manuscrits d’œuvres, de cours, d’articles et travaux divers, augmentés de plusieurs milliers de notes de lecture, l’ensemble acquis par la BnF bouleverse notre connaissance de l’œuvre et éclaire le travail silencieux qui l’a préparée. S’il se disait fréquemment que Foucault s’astreignait à des…

Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, Edited By Sandra Boehringer, Daniele Lorenzini, Routledge, 2022

Book Description
Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity, published for the first time in English, takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how the work of Michel Foucault has influenced studies of ancient Greece and Rome.

Foucault’s The History of Sexuality has had a profound and lasting impact across the humanities and social sciences. In the two volumes dedicated to pagan antiquity, Foucault provided scholars with new questions for addressing ancient Greek and Roman societies, and an original epistemological framework for thinking about eroticism and about the processes by which individuals are led to recognize themselves as the subjects of their desires. Now, decades later, the scholars in this volume explore Foucault’s role in shaping and reorienting discussions of antiquity in the fields of philosophy, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, among others.

A multidisciplinary exploration of Foucault’s work and its relationship to…

Dominique Lecourt, author of the classics of Marxist philosophy of science Marxism and Epistemology Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault and Proletarian Science?, among many others, died in Paris on 1 May 2022. Here, Roger-Pol Droit remembers his life and work. Also included [on the Verso page] is a newly translated essay of Lecourt’s on Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge.

Obituary for Dominique Lecourt by Roger-Pol Droit
Translated by David Fernbach. Originally published in Le Monde, Verso Books site, 1 June 2022.

Born in Paris on 5 February 1944, the philosopher Dominique Lecourt died at Lariboisière Hospital in Paris on 1 May 2022. He was the author of a copious body of work, with some forty volumes mainly centred on the relationship between philosophy and scientific or medical thought, but also a figure in publishing and cultural institutions who has left his mark on recent decades.

Lecourt studied under three…

David Storey (ed.), A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality – Edward Elgar, 2020

Just an expensive hardback at present, but Introduction and front matter open access here.

Update: the paperback is now available.

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.

This innovative Research Agenda draws together discussions on the conceptualization of territory and the ways in which territory and territorial practices are intimately bound with issues of power and control. Expert contributors provide a critical assessment of key areas of scholarship on territory and territoriality across a wide range of spatial scales and with examples drawn from the global landscape.

After an introduction to shifting ideas of territory, territoriality and sovereignty, the book deals with territory…

Irus Braverman (ed.), Laws of the Sea:Interdisciplinary Currents – Routledge, July 2022

Update: the e-book can be accessed open access here.

Currently listed just as hardback, but a paperback and open access e-book will also be available. One of the chapters comes from the ICE-LAW project run by Phil Steinberg at Durham University.

Assembling scholars across multiple orientations – from legal studies, geography, anthropology, cultural and political theory, the environmental humanities, and ocean studies –this book connects law to the broader humanities in order to critically engage contemporary concerns with the fate of the ocean.

Although the United Nations’ monumental ‘Convention on the Law of the Sea’ imagines an all-encompassing constitutional framework for governing the ocean, this collection,Laws of the Sea,approaches law in plural ways, applying the insights that have emerged within various disciplines to consider the possibilities of a critical ocean approach in legal studies…

Special Issue: Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Science, Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, No. 12 (2022)

From the Editors
Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Science
Marlon Salomon

Dossiers (Issue-specific topics)
Number and Things
Foucauldian Contributions to the Work of Ian Hacking
María Laura Martínez

Heterotopia as a Reconstruction of the History of Ideas
Michel Foucault’s Archeology and its Appropriation by Ian Hacking
Débora Bráulio Santos

L’État, C’est Moi?
Towards an Archaeology of Sovereignty in the Western Episteme(s)
Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín

Foucault and the “Noble Sciences”
From Aufklärung to “Dignity” in Philosophy
Jorge Alberto Rocha

“The Use of Pleasure” of learning
A Foucauldian Perspective on the Role of Scientific Pedagogy in the Historiography of Science
André Fantin, Ivã Gurgel

Foucault and Starobinski
A Critical Relationship or The Living Eye vs. “Gazing at Death”
Malika Sager

Michel Foucault as a Forerunner of the 20th Century…