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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 dernier Michel Foucault? – FranceCulture podcast

Parts of these are transcribed on the webpages. The second has some clips of Foucault talking about the work.

Elisabeth Roudinesco reviews the book for Le monde (requires subscription); Juliette Cerf in Télérama. 

News reports in The Local (in English); Huffington Post; report on the book and last weekend’s conference in Le monde (requires subscription); from Élodie Maurot in La Croix; and in The New York Times by Peter Libbey (in English, with brief quote from me).

Finally, I’ve previously shared these but thought I’d add them to this aggregated post:

Roger-Pol Droit, “Foucault, les mots et les sexes” in Les Echos

Philosophie Magazine special issue on Foucault, including an extract from Les Aveux de la chair

And my brief comments for Warwick. Full review now available in the Theory, Culture and Society blog (open access); forthcoming in the journal.

Update:

Alison Flood, “‘Key’ fourth book of Foucault’s History of Sexuality published in France“,  The Guardian, 12 February 2018.

Olivia Goldhill, “Foucault has a new book out, and it’s the key to understanding his entire work on sexuality“, Quartz, 14 February 2018

Both The Guardian and Quartz pieces include some quotes from me.

Update 2: A German discussion is here.

Update3: Alexandre Gefen brief review at the Critical Inquiry blog.

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. Includes a brief interview with the book’s editor, Frédéric Gros, at the end.

I was at the Paris conference on this book the last few days, which was fascinating and revealing. The book is due for publication on 8 February, though I was able to have a quick look at a copy after the event. I will doubtless say more when it’s actually published.

Launch event for Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair – Paris, 17 February 2017 (via Vrin)