Birth of Biopolitics announced

The English translation of The Birth of Biopolitics is scheduled for an 11 April 2008 release.
From the publisher:
Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in 1979, The Birth of Biopolitics, pursue and develop further the themes of his lectures from the previous year, Security, Territory, Population.  Having shown how Eighteen century political economy marks [...]

Foucault as phenomenologist

Barry Stocker, a philosopher in Istanbul, makes the case for Foucault as phenomenologist:
My main thoughts are that Foucault is not the kind of social constructivist he is often taken to be; and that his epistemology can be better understood if it is interpreted in a Phenomenological context. The Phenomenological aspect of Foucault should orientate understanding [...]