Michel Foucault – Another interim assessment of a reception

Young talent workshop

In the 40 years since his death, Michel Foucault has also become a canonical author in the humanities and social sciences in Germany. He is part of the standard repertoire in introductory courses, and hardly any other author of the 20th century has had monographs, anthologies and introductory works published so regularly. While the German-speaking academic reception was accompanied by conflicts from the very beginning, Foucault’s canonization has once again become the subject of fierce public debate in the current socio-political debates: The question of what relevance his thinking has for understanding our present day must be renegotiated. In the tradition of the Frankfurt Foucault Conference 2001, we want to take stock of Foucault’s reception “again” against this background.
The event is organized as a two-day workshop for young academics and is therefore primarily aimed at young researchers. The selected contributions address Foucault’s influence on our present in a variety of ways: For example, some presentations dealt with Foucault’s significance for a wide range of disciplines, while others were dedicated to newly discovered origins of his thought or innovative ways of connecting to his work. Finally, a last block of contributions addresses the direct significance of Foucault for the understanding of current political conflicts.
The lectures will be presented in 4 panels with up to 4 lectures each; a total of 45 minutes is planned for each lecture including discussion. There will also be keynote lectures by Frieder Vogelmann, Vincent August and Judith Revel.

The entire event will take place in the Haus Normative Ordnungen on Campus Westend (room EG.01/02). All parts of the event are generally open to the public,
but registration is required: Here…

Organization: Jonas Lang and Jannik Oestmann with the kind support of the Chair of Political Theory, History of Ideas and Theories of Economics (Prof. Dr. Thomas Biebricher)
Contact: jonaslang@stud.uni-frankfurt.de, oestmann@stud.uni-frankfurt.de