feeLit 2026: Didier Eribon – Foucault. Eine Biographie

In the organizer's words:

From July 2 to 5, feeLit - International Literature Festival Heidelberg and its authors will be making a guest appearance at halle02 for the second time. Our festival venue is all about books and writing. This year, feeLit presents national and international literary stars and brings authors together with their audience.

feeLit 2026: Didier Eribon - Foucault. A biography

Language: German

Michel Foucault, one of France's most important philosophers, died in 1984. Few like him have succeeded not only in reflecting their time, but also in imprinting it with the signature of their own thinking. Since Foucault, we see "sexuality", "madness", "prison" and "power" in a different light.

This book is a biography, it describes the life of the philosopher. And yet, when you tackle a biography of Foucault, you do so because he wrote books. And so Didier Eribon's biography of Michel Foucault, the only one to date, is a fascinating portrait of the enigmatic figure of Michel Foucault and with it the last forty years of intellectual history, not only in France, thanks to its profoundly researched wealth of facts and its intimate knowledge of the person and work of this thinker.

Didier Eribon, born in Reims in 1953, is a French sociologist, author and philosopher. His book Return to Reims, originally published in 2009, made him famous in German-speaking countries in 2016. The autofictional essay was received as a literary event and a key text on the rise of right-wing populism. In 2024, he was awarded the Prix de l'Académie de Berlin for his work.

"... a brilliantly narrated and moving book. It creates a space for reflection and mourning and for the big question of how to deal with old age and dying in societies like ours."

Meike Feßmann, Der Tagesspiegel

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