Previously the list included just the first five volumes of the first edition. I added volumes VI and VII last month, and I have added the final three volumes today. All of volume X is translated, and parts of volumes VIII and IX.
The new French edition keeps the title Situations, but rearranges material and adds lots of other essays, without being anything close to a complete works. This means many essays are in different volumes of the two editions. I discussed what this means for the chronology of his exchange with Claude Lefort about communism in a separate post.
The French Wikipedia page has a useful Liste des œuvres de Jean-Paul Sartre – though the references are only to the first edition of Situations. With the English translations, some essays are translated multiple times; others don’t seem to have been translated at all. I’m unaware of plans to translate the second edition. I hope the listing is useful to someone – I’m sure I’ve missed some of the pieces which appeared in journals or other collections. Corrections and additions welcome. As with the other resource pages on this site, this is intended to be a work in progress.
Eight of the ten volumes of the first edition of Situations, along with some of the English books translating essays from the collection, and some other works by Sartre
A new, and expensive, collection of his shorter writings, again using his archives – Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, introduction by Frédéric Gros, Chronology by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notes and index by Dan di Razza Dilasser – Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, October 2026
Michel Foucault, La Croisade des enfants – ed. Arianna Sforzini with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Flammarion, October 2026. This is a fascinating book of material Foucault drafted for a volume of the History of Sexuality, on the crusade against childhood masturbation. which he abandoned as the series changed direction. His draft material for a book on the early modern Church is due to be published next year.
A reissue of the Cahier de L’Herne: Michel Foucault, ed. Frédéric Gros with Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert and Judith Revel, Paris, L’Herne, October 2026, originally published in 2011
Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026 – a major reference work with essays on all aspects of Foucault’s work.
There are lots more Foucault related research resources on this site – bibliographies, audio and video files, some textual comparisons, some short translations, etc.
Foucault continues to interest me, even as I work on other things and go in different directions. Most recently, Federico Testa have written a short piece about him, on which I hope to have more news soon.
In Assemblage Theory and Affect, Ian Buchanan continues the project he began in Assemblage Theory and Method, of demystifying the critical elements of the work of Deleuze and Guattari. He argues that the concepts of assemblage and affect, which were separated at birth, need to be reunited if we are to fully understand what Deleuze and Guattari meant by these pivotal concepts. To this end, Assemblage Theory and Affectproposes three agenda-setting arguments that will change how we see the concepts of the assemblage and affect.
1. Affect is a function of desire – its powers are the powers we attribute to desire. As such, like desire it should be considered a psychical agency. The assemblage, the body without organs and the abstract machine are all components of this psychical agency.
2. Affect is a capacitating power – it empowers us to meet life. Affect is not the measure of our response to a given stimulus, it is rather the capacity we have to respond to a stimulus in the way that we do. This is the essential argument of Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalytic project which is a kind of survivor’s guide to late capitalism.
3. Thecapacitating power of affect depends upon the combinations of bodies without organs and abstract machines that we have been able to put together by means of the assemblages available to us. This is what Deleuze means by an ethics of desire.
Buchanan outlines the meaning of both concepts for contemporary philosophy, art, cultural and critical theory and politics. In applying these theories to real life practices and experiences, these concepts are given clarity and force.
Demobilising the Far Right focuses on dynamics of mobilisation, counter-mobilisation, and state coercion to offer a new comparative study of far-right demonstration campaigns across Austria, England, and Germany from 1990–2020. With rigorous qualitative comparative analysis and process-tracing case studies, the book explores what factors drive the demobilisation of far-right movements and the critical role of state and societal responses. By examining key far-right groups like the British National Party and the German People’s Union, it sheds light on a crucial yet underexplored area of social movement theory. Combining innovative methodology with rich empirical analysis, Demobilising the Far Right provides vital insights for understanding political violence, extremism, and protest movements as well as how states and social actors respond, and the implications for democratic societies.
This insightful Research Handbook examines the development and continuing relevance of critical theory. Expert contributors assess the central concepts and differing research perspectives, providing a panoramic and global overview of this approach and its significance for understanding the present.
The first study to make use of Lukàcs’s theory of realism to understand contemporary cultural phenomena more broadly and in the fields of art and television in particular. Adam Geczy focuses on contemporary cultural trends and problems to demonstrate the continuing relevance of Georg Lukács’ philosophy. The Marxist critic Lukács wrote in defence of realism in art, and especially in literature. Geczy shows why there is a growing need to return to realism in both theory and practice, given the predominance of cultural practices that rely on representative and narrative devices, ones that speak directly to the conditions of the present. Geczy applies Lukács’ philosophical aesthetics to examples in contemporary film, television and graphic literature. We see that realism for Lukács has a profoundly ethical caste. From it emerge issues such as the moral duty of the author, the aptness of the work of art, and its capacity to bring knowledge and insight to the life-world in which it is read or received. Approached from this aesthetic standpoint, Geczy presents the many cultural wars waged in the new millennium as between what is real and authentic as opposed to the mendacious and abstruse. In rethinking realism with Lukács, Geczy brings earlier theories up to date and provides a compelling new way of looking at how and why we engage in today’s cultural practices.
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 Gonzague for sending me a copy – I helped with locating the source of one of the photographs used.
In an age of crisis and uncertainty, Nasar Meer asks what justice means in an unjust world, and how it might be sustained in uncertain times. The Social Life of Justicepresents clear, vivid examples to reimagine justice as a social practice of design: something we make, repair and contest through our institutions, histories and everyday relations.
Ranging from Plato to climate change, from social contracts to international humanitarian law, the book traces how the moral vocabularies of law, policy and borders have been shaped by power, and suggests ways by which they might yet be redesigned to minimize harm and distribute benefits more fairly. Using examples of racial, gender, epistemic and environmental justice, Meer invites readers to see how ideas of justice are created and contested through lived human experience rather than from the theories we inherit.
Written with clarity and urgency, this book will appeal to readers interested in sociology, political theory, law and global studies.
