Category Archives: Foucault’s Last Decade

Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022 The fourth and final book in my series of studies of Foucault’s career is now published in the UK. US and rest of the world will follow in early 2023. … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s seminars at the Collège de France – a list of their pre-announced titles

Posted on November 3, 2022 by stuartelden

All of Foucault’s lecture courses at the Collège de France have been published and translated into English. Thirteen courses were delivered over a fourteen-year period from 1970-84 – Foucault took 1976-77 as a sabbatical year. Much less is known about … Continue reading →

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Two reviews of The Early Foucault (Polity, 2021) by Colin Koopman and Jasper Friedrich – and a note on Heidegger

Posted on October 15, 2022 by stuartelden

There are two recent reviews of The Early Foucault by Colin Koopman at The Review of Politics (requires subscription) and Jasper Friedrich at Foucault Studies (open access). They are generous and appreciative, though not uncritical. I’m grateful to both for taking the time to … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – the two cowboy hat photographs

Posted on August 25, 2022 by stuartelden

Back in 2015, when I was doing the research for Foucault’s Last Decade, I tried to identify and contact the people who had been part of Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley. The famous photograph appeared in Didier Eribon’s biography, with … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022, cover and preorder details

Posted on May 31, 2022 by stuartelden

The final book in my series of studies of Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, is due for publication with Polity in December 2022. On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 15: submission of the revised manuscript and the end of the project

Posted on April 8, 2022 by stuartelden

On Wednesday afternoon, I submitted the final, revised manuscript of The Archaeology of Foucault to Polity. I’d submitted the manuscript for review in February during Warwick’s reading week, and had two very positive and useful reports back at the end of March. … Continue reading →

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My first book, Mapping the Present is 20 years old…

Posted on October 4, 2021 by stuartelden

It was twenty years ago today that my first book, Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History was published. I received an advance on 4 October 2001. The contract was signed with Athlone, who became … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden: The Early Foucault reviewed by Michael Maiden, Phenomenological Reviews

Posted on October 4, 2021 by stuartelden

The Early Foucault (Polity, 2021) is reviewed by Michael Maiden at Phenomenological Reviews Stuart Elden’s The Early Foucault is the third of a four-volume study of the origins and development of Michel Foucault’s thought. This book is the first one regarding the … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 10: cycling in Wales, work on The Order of Things, Nietzsche and a short trip to Paris

Posted on October 1, 2021 by stuartelden

In the last part of the summer I was able to make some good progress on this manuscript. In late August and early September I had two-week writing and cycling break in Wales. The weather was good until the last … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Cycling, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Hyppolite, Michel Foucault, Pierre Klossowski, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Travel, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault – Polity, June 2021 now published

Posted on June 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault – Polity, June 2021 The book is now published, in both hardback and paperback, and is in bookstores, though getting copies outside of the UK might still take a while. It’s available as an e-book … Continue reading →

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