Category Archives: Books

Foucault at Warwick – 17 January 2020, 5pm, with Alison Downham Moore, Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini and Federico Testa

Posted on January 2, 2020 by stuartelden

Foucault at Warwick, 17 January 2020, 5pm, with Alison Downham Moore, Lisa Downing,  Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini and Federico Testa – free and open to all. I’ll be speaking about the archival work I’ve done on the early Foucault.

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My favourite academic books of 2019

Posted on December 31, 2019 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read … Continue reading →

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Books received – a pile from the Verso sale

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

The Verso sale runs until the end of December 2019

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The Early Foucault Update 28 – second half of the manuscript, Swiss archives and asylums

Posted on November 12, 2019 by stuartelden

Term 1 is when I do most of my teaching, but I’ve been doing a little bit of work on my The Early Foucault manuscript most days. I’ve mainly been reworking the organisation of the second half of the text. Chapter 6 … Continue reading →

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Foucault resources – some updates and reorganisation

Posted on October 7, 2019 by stuartelden

While I’ve been writing the sequence of books on Foucault for Polity – Foucault’s Last Decade;  Foucault: The Birth of Power and the ongoing The Early Foucault – I’ve been making available some research resources. These have included bibliographies, lists of audio and … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 27: Paris, Wales, Kant

Posted on September 30, 2019 by stuartelden

Thankfully, this book manuscript has been the main focus again of work over the past month. I’ve been continuing to work on Foucault’s relation to Dumézil, on Foucault’s time in Warsaw and Hamburg, and other things in the later 1950s. … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 26 – Defert, Wahl, Warsaw, Hamburg, Dumézil

Posted on August 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Since the last update, and a short holiday in Wales, I’ve been systematically going through each of the previously drafted chapters, and doing a bit of reorganization. I’ve also worked through all the issues of Le Magazine Littéraire which have theme … Continue reading →

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Books received – Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis and some for the early Foucault work

Posted on August 22, 2019 by stuartelden

A copy of Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis, generously sent by Martin, and some second-hand ones for The Early Foucault work. Clavel, Mauriac and Italiaander all knew Foucault at different times, and Pestana is a useful study of his early … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 25 – back after a long break on other projects

Posted on July 26, 2019 by stuartelden

It’s been over five months since I posted an update on The Early Foucault, and it is only in the last couple of weeks that I’ve really been back at work on the manuscript. In the spring and early summer … Continue reading →

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‘Why should people interested in territory read Shakespeare?’ article in Territory, Politics, Governance now published

Posted on July 11, 2019 by stuartelden

My article ‘Why should people interested in territory read Shakespeare?‘ is now published in Territory, Politics, Governance. It’s been available online for a while, but is now officially in an issue of the journal. If you don’t have institutional access, … Continue reading →

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