Book reviews

Books for review

Books not yet assigned a reviewer

Amanda Machin, Bodies of Democracy: Modes of Embodied Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.

Benda Hofmeyr, Foucault and Governmentality: Living to Work in the Age of Control. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

Deborah Niederer Saxon, The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Elisabetta Basso, Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathy, Phenomenology, and Antrhopology 1952-1955. Columbia: Columbia University Press, 2022.

Hannah Lyn Venable, Madness in Experience and History: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology and Foucault's Archaeology. London: Routledge, 2021.

John Iliopoulos, This History of Reason in the Age of Madness: Foucault’s Enlightenment and a radical critique of Psychiatry. Bloomsbury, 2017.

John McIntyre, The Limits of Scientific Reason: Habermas, Foucault, and Science as a Social Institution. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.

Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn (Ed.), Intolerable: Writings form Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group (1970-1980). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

Kevin Aho, One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality, Polity Press, 2022.

Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje. Massachusetts: Academic Studies Press, 2022.

Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

Rick Elmore and Ege Selin Islekel (Ed.), The Biopolitics of Punishment: Derrida and Foucault. Northwestern University Press, 2022.

Serei Prozorov, Democratic Biopolitics: Popular Sovereignty and the power of Life. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Serei Prozorov, Biopolitics after Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Stuart Elden, The Birth of Power. Polity Press, 2017.

Sverre Raffnsøe, Morten S. Thaning, and Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Michel Foucault: A research companion. Springer, 2016.

Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino, Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics: Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.  

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault critico di Schmitt. Genealogie e guerra. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2024.

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre. À partir de Schmitt contre Schmitt. Éditions Mimésis, Milan, 2023.

 

If you are interested in reviewing one of the above books, please contact for English-language publications Book Reviews Editor Alan Rosenberg at at foucnietz@nyc.rr.com. For non-English language publications contact Reviews Editor Marius Gudmand-Høyer at mgh.lpf@cbs.dk. If you have any questions please contact please contact the Managing Editors at submission.foucaultstudies@gmail.com.

Book reviews should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words. Review essays should be between 2,000 and 6,000 words.

 

Books assigned for review

Adam Takács, Foucault's Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.

Aliraza Javaid, Masculinities, Sexualities and Love. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2019.

Apple Zefelius Igrek, Entropic Affirmation: On the Origins of Conflict in Change, Death, and Otherness. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Benjamin Kahan, The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology & the Emergences of Sexuality. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019.

Chloë Taylor, Foucault, Feminism and Sex Crimes: An Anti-Carceral Analysis. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Cory Wimberly, How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public. Routledge: New York, 2020.

David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault. Verso, 2019.

Dianna Taylor, Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective. Routledge, 2019.

Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa, ed., Dispositif: A Cartography. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023.

Jan Rehmann. Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism: Deleuze and Foucault. Brill, 2022.

Lynne Huffer, Foucault's Strange Eros. Columbia University Press, 2020.

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024.

Marco Checchi, The Primacy of Resistance. Power, Opposition and Becoming. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2021.

Mark Coeckelbergh, Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. New York: Columbia UP, 2022.

Michael Ure and Matthew Sharpe, Philosophy as A Way of Life: From Antiquity to Modernity. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2021.

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter. London: Routledge, 2024.

Mitchell Dean & Daniel Zamora, The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution. London: Verso, 2021.

Mona Lilja, Constructive Resistance: Repetitions, Emotions, and Time. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.

Niki Kasumi Clements, Sites of the Ascetic Self: John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.

Ottavio Marzocca, Biopolitics for Beginners: Knowledge of Life and Government of People. Milan and Udine: Mimesis International, 2020.

Patrick G. Stefan, The Power of Resurrection: Foucault, Discipline, and Early Christian Resistance. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020.

Paul Allen Miller. Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Paul Van Tongeren, The Art of Living Well: Moral Experience and Virtue Ethics. England: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Pierre Hadot, The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice. Ed. by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa. England: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Robert Mitchell, Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.

Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Stephen W. Sawyer and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, eds. Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Stuart Elden, Canguilhem. Polity Press, 2019.

Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault. Polity Press, 2021.*

Thomas Lemke, Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason. London: Verso, 2019.

Thomas Lemke, The Government of Things: Foucault and the New Materialisms. NYU Press, 2021.

 

If you are interested in reviewing one of the above books, please contact for English-language publications Book Reviews Editor Alan Rosenberg at at foucnietz@nyc.rr.com. For non-English language publications contact Reviews Editor Marius Gudmand-Høyer at mgh.lpf@cbs.dk. If you have any questions please contact please contact the Managing Editors at submission.foucaultstudies@gmail.com.

Book reviews should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words. Review essays should be between 2,000 and 6,000 words.