I missed this when it came out last year, but Matthew Hannah briefly and generously reviews The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2023) in Cultural Geographies. It’s restricted access, unfortunately. Here’s the opening paragraph.

Throughout his impressive body of work in intellectual history, Stuart Elden has been content to remain in the background, leaving others to traffic in major interpretive gambits. His readers are typically offered a fine mesh of specific bibliographic insights spread like dew-laced morning spiderwebs over the writings of Foucault, Heidegger or Canguilhem. The Archaeology of Foucault, though, breaks subtly with this self-effacing tendency in Elden’s work, and quietly reveals a bit more of his scholarly commitments than do the other volumes. It is not marked by a bold step into the limelight. But it is telling that it is the only one of the four volumes with a title that names its method…