Kantian ethics is traditionally seen as grounded in unchanging, universally binding, and a priori knowable principles. I argue that this picture is incomplete: Kant grounds his ethics not only in cat....

Penn Press is thrilled to announce its new partnership with Foucault Studies, the only international journal in the English language devoted to the work

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Who translated Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things? The original English edition, published by Pantheon in 1970 (and Tavistock in the UK) has the title The Order of Things: An Archaeolo…

World-renowned scholars gather at Birkbeck for an in-person event to mark the impact of Fanon's legacy in law and philosophy.

An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher.   Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must ...

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A critique of the concept of truth presupposed by the post-truth debate—and a bold new vision for a more pluralistic citizenry.   We say that we live in a “post-truth” era because disinformation threa...

Foucault traced the history of a form of testimony he labelled ‘avowal’ (aveu) – effectively a social institution of testimony that counts, necessarily, as true. Looking to the present, I will focu...

The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) is an interdisciplinary space for sustained, comparative discussion of social and political processes in the contemporary world. 3CT is a part of Divis...

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) draws attention to the marginalization of Foucauldian scholarship on disability and the continuing absence of critical phi…

The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) is an interdisciplinary space for sustained, comparative discussion of social and political processes in the contemporary world. 3CT is a part of Divis...

We propose an account of the subject’s cognition and its relation to the world that allows for an articulation of the phenomenon of ideology. We argue that ideology is a form of what we call ‘a priori...

The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) is an interdisciplinary space for sustained, comparative discussion of social and political processes in the contemporary world. 3CT is a part of Divis...

All’inizio di Les mots et les choses Foucault scriveva che, per la ragione classica, il folle è l’uomo delle “somiglianze selvagge”, colui che ravvisa analogie là dove la ragione imporrebbe di individ...

This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Appro…

The Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation which is maintained by Daniele Lorenzini and hosted on this site has been updated. As always if you notice anything missing pleas…

Francia (Alias Domenica) Due conferenze: una tenuta nel maggio del 1978 alla Société française de Philosophie, l’altra, inedita, nel 1983 a Berkeley: «Che cos’è la critica?», da DeriveApprodi. Di Pier...

2025 marks the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon. Despite Fanon’s enormous influence in postcolonial studies, political thought, the history of Marxism and the humanities more widely, ...

Values, and a critique of values, are at the center of Nietzsche's philosophical work. He famously proposes to launch a “revaluation” of values. But this raises a number of philosophical questions ab...

New science shows that farm animals and other creatures exhibit signs of conscious experience. How should this make us see them – and ourselves?