A centenary for Michel Foucault, marked by an exhibition and new books
To mark the hundredth anniversary of Michel Foucault's birth, the Bibliothèque nationale de France is devoting an exhibition to the philosopher, and several new publications are appearing alongside it.
Michel Foucault's centenary is being marked this year with an exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, according to France Culture, which discussed the philosopher's continued relevance on its programme "Questions du soir" on September 3.
Among the publications timed to the anniversary is "Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault," a book by Didier Fassin, one of the exhibition's curators. According to France Culture, the volume gathers the courses Foucault gave at the Collège de France, delivered several months ago as part of the centenary programming.
The France Culture segment poses the question directly in its title: is Foucault a thinker for our time. The programme does not, per the source material, detail further the exhibition's contents or the scope of the accompanying publications beyond Fassin's book.
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