Philosophical accounts of the difficulty of maintaining sincere commitments in modern society with the rise of a more divided self — beginning with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and stretching to figures like ...

A professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia, she occupies a singular position in contemporary culture: she is an academic, influenced by Michel Foucault, who has both received a ...

‘Governmentality’ is a concept by French sociologist and philosopher, Michel Foucault that refers to how institutions of power — in this case the government — rather than employing ...

Kenya region on April 1, 2025. ‎ ‎[Kipsang Joseph, Standard] “Freedom,” wrote Michel Foucault, “is the refusal to be governed.” He wasn’t speaking of anarchy or disorder. He was ...

PhD students at Monash learn about the theoretical influences of Michel Foucault, and that “simple techniques of power include the school bell and the confessional”. They were forced to ...

Cartoon Brew spoke with Michel Gondry to learn more about the making of this singular animated film. Maya recently had its North American debut at the New York International Children’s Film ...

In the first of this book's two dense essays, Foucault links the neutral space of Blanchot's fiction to a line of thought extending from de Sade to Artaud, Nietzsche and Bataille. . . . In the ...

As a young bibliophile living in a small town in Southwest Washington, I would daydream about browsing in my ideal bookshop, and the image in my head looked a lot like Mother Foucault’s Bookshop.

A clip of Brown giving a lecture breaking down Michel Foucault‘s philosophy currently has over a million views on X. “In 1975, in his work Discipline And Punish, he explored the evolution of ...

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics like Noam Chomsky, who derided Foucault’s moral theories ...

After contributing so much to this way of seeing the world, however, a lot of Foucault’s effort in his later years went to the idea of the self. The decades since he died have witnessed the rise ...