Foucault and Islamic Revolution

Foucault Seminar at Youth Center
two-day seminar on the 20th century French philosopher Michel Foucault will be held as part of a series of discussions titled ’Those Thinking’ at the Youth Thought Center on October 21-22.According to Fars news agency, at the event sponsored by Students Basij (volunteer forces) of Tehran University’s literature and humanities faculties, noted scholars such as Reza Davari-Ardakani, Hossein Kachoeian, Mohammad Reza Rikhtehgaran, Darioush Rahmanian, Hamid Reza Namazi, Mohammad Eivazi, Davoud Firahi and Shahriar Zarshenas, will review the views of the philosopher.Main subjects of discussion at the gathering include ’Review of Foucault’s Thoughts’, ’Foucault and Review of History’, ’Foucault and Society’, ’Foucault and Narration of Death’ and ’Foucault and Islamic Revolution’.The center has so far organized similar seminars on Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, both German philosophers.Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist. He is best known for his critical studies of various social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences and the prison system.Foucault’s work on power, and the relationships among power, knowledge, and discourse, have been widely discussed and practiced.