Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault, La Place de l’homme dans la pensée occidentale moderne: Cours de Tunis (1966-1967) – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, November 2026

Posted on October 20, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La Place de l’homme dans la pensée occidentale moderne: Cours de Tunis (1966-1967) – eds. Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, November 2026 En 1966-1967, première année de son enseignement à l’université de Tunis, Michel Foucault consacre un … Continue reading →

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More links for the Foucault centenary

Posted on October 19, 2026 by stuartelden

On Foucault’s 100th birthday I shared some of the publications timed to coincide with the anniversary – The Foucault Centenary. Here are a few more: Michel Foucault Centennial at Duke University Press (via Foucault News) – includes Lynne Huffer’s remarkable … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Foucault, Arthur, Jameson, Leff

Posted on October 17, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre, Between Existentialism and Marxism; Michel Foucault, Iran, quand la terre tremble: Reportage 1978-1979; Paige Arthur, Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre; Frederic Jameson, After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought and The Years of Theory: … Continue reading →

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The Foucault centenary

Posted on October 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Today is the 100th anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth. A lot of publications and events have been timed to coincide with this. Here are a few. Update 19 October 2026 – a few more here, including a remarkable video interview, … Continue reading →

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Le Nouvel Obs hors série – Michel Foucault Le visionnaire

Posted on October 12, 2026 by stuartelden

A special issue of Le Nouvel Obs – Michel Foucault Le visionnaire Includes pieces by  Judith Butler, Michaël Fœssel, Michelle Perrot, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Didier Fassin and others, and an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published La Croisade des enfants. Thanks to Arnaud … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault: storico della verità – video of 1 February 1978 interview

Posted on October 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault: storico della verità – video of 1 February 1978 interview In French, dubbed into Italian. English subtitles are due to be added. [Update: the French audio and English subtitles are available here] Difensore della libertà umana, il filosofo … Continue reading →

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Gilles Deleuze, Sur Foucault I: Les formes du savoir, cours octobre-décembre 1985 – ed. David Lapoujade, Éditions de Minuit, November 2026

Posted on October 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, Sur Foucault I: Les formes du savoir, cours octobre-décembre 1985 – ed. David Lapoujade, Éditions de Minuit, November 2026 Lors de l’année universitaire 1985-1986, Gilles Deleuze décide de rendre hommage à la pensée de Michel Foucault, disparu en … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault, Turkish translation by Duygu Yurttașen – Foucault’nun Arkeolojisi, Ayrinti, 2026

Posted on October 6, 2026 by stuartelden

My 2023 book The Archaeology of Foucault has been translated into Turkish – Foucault’nun Arkeolojisi, trans. Duygu Yurttașen, Istanbul: Ayrinti, 2026. The cover uses one of the images from Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Le Carceri d’Invenzione. Some of the other books in my … Continue reading →

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Further challenges with the references to Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic

Posted on October 4, 2026 by stuartelden

In an earlier post in this series I discussed a misplaced reference in Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic, where Foucault’s reference pointed to a book by S.A.D. Tissot but the actual source of the quotation was a text by Archibald Pitcairn. In that … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bagnato, Mandrou, Ginzburg, Puaud, Favret-Saada, Wilson

Posted on September 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape; Robert Mandrou, From Humanism to Science 1480-1700; Carlo Ginzburg, Fear Reverence Terror; David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse, Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 … Continue reading →

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