Abstract

MARIN MENESES, Benjamín. Foucault in Mexico: his life and work seen from El Informador, Mexican newspaper, 1968-1988. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2021, n.161, pp.241-267.  Epub Feb 21, 2022. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.161.2021.808.

For 20 years, since the first reference appears in 1968 to 1988, El Informador, founded in the city of Guadalajara, sporadically published various notes, reviews, reflections, book sale announcements, and news about the life of Michel Foucault. The central interest was to give an account of the European philosophical event, for this, the responsible editors and writers assigned sections of the newspaper to him, ranging from a small mention to entire pages. The present work aims to recover the information spilled in the lines of El Informador and observe the uses that Words and Things, History of Madness or The Archeology of Knowledge, among other manuscripts, had within the Jalisco newspaper, with which can sketch, slightly, the place that Foucault had within the daily imaginary of the Mexican, understanding that the press was the most important vehicle to connect the guadalajarense reader with the philosophical thought during the second half of the 20th century.

Keywords : newspaper; Mexico; philosophy; news; power.