Monthly Archives: October 2026

Anthony C. Gatrell, Who Cares? The Unequal Geographies of Healthcare – Edinburgh University Press, September 2026

Posted on October 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Anthony C. Gatrell, Who Cares? The Unequal Geographies of Healthcare – Edinburgh University Press, September 2026 There are massive disparities, globally, nationally and regionally, in the provision of healthcare services and access to them. This textbook from one of the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Mbembe, Miéville, Jameson, Senghor, Luna

Posted on October 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre, Politics and Literature; Achille Mbembe, La communauté terrestre; China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto; the reissue of Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form; Léopold Sédar Senghor, Writings on Politics and The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and … Continue reading →

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David Cooper, Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010-2020 – Liverpool University Press, September 2026

Posted on October 7, 2026 by stuartelden

David Cooper, Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010-2020 – Liverpool University Press, September 2026 Creative non-fiction books about place became increasingly prominent in British and Irish literary culture during the 2010s. More particularly, a wide range of writers, exploring … Continue reading →

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Frank Vibert, The Liberal Tradition and Political Order: Liberalism and the New Authoritarianism – Edward Elgar, 2026

Posted on October 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Frank Vibert, The Liberal Tradition and Political Order: Liberalism and the New Authoritarianism – Edward Elgar, 2026 This enlightening book identifies liberalism’s relevance to contemporary society and identifies how and where it offers robust opposition to modern forms of authoritarianism. … 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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Cahier de L’Herne: Michel Foucault (2026)

Posted on October 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Cahier de L’Herne : Michel Foucault, Dirigé par Frédéric Gros. Avec la collaboration Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert et Judith Revel. Paris, L’Herne, 15 Octobre 2026; Première édition publiée en 2011.

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Isabelle Ost, Martin Mees and Philippe Sabot eds., Esthétique de l’existence: Généalogies à partir de Michel Foucault – Les Impressions Nouvelles, September 2026

Posted on October 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Isabelle Ost, Martin Mees and Philippe Sabot eds., Esthétique de l’existence: Généalogies à partir de Michel Foucault – Les Impressions Nouvelles, September 2026 Dans les dernières années de sa vie, le philosophe Michel Foucault explore dans ses cours au Collège … 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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Iulian Apostolescu ed. The Play of Being: New Perspectives on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenological Project – Brill, October 2026

Posted on October 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Iulian Apostolescu ed. The Play of Being: New Perspectives on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenological Project – Brill, October 2026 The aim of this collection of essays is to explore Eugen Fink’s legacy and the potentialities of his phenomenological project for contemporary … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “Writing the ‘Sunday histories’ – an experiment in sharing short pieces on a blog”, in the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly “Reflections on Writing” Series (open access)

Posted on October 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly has a “Reflections on Writing” Series – all pieces are open access My contribution “Writing the ‘Sunday histories’ – an experiment in sharing short pieces on a blog” is now available. My thanks to Mark Flear … Continue reading →

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