Category Archives: Books

Shakespearean Territories – slight publication delay

Posted on October 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Shakespearean Territories was due to be published this week, but there is a slight delay – apparently due to the printer and to paper shortages in the US (this really is a thing). It should available very soon, hopefully in the … Continue reading →

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Cover design, endorsements and preorder details for Stuart Elden, Canguilhem – Polity, 2019

Posted on October 9, 2018 by stuartelden

I’m pleased to share the cover design of my forthcoming book Canguilhem (Polity, 2019). It’s part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series and is available to preorder from Wiley in ebook, paperback and hardcover. The book is due for publication in February … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille on Nietzsche, the journal Acéphale and the Secret Society

Posted on October 4, 2018 by stuartelden

While I’ve mainly been consumed by start-of-term stuff, I have been following up on a few leads in relation to the Foucault work. One of these was a piece by Georges Bataille on Nietzsche, first published in his short-lived journal … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 20: Paris, some cautions and future work

Posted on October 1, 2018 by stuartelden

It’s been steady progress in the last part of summer on the manuscript of The Early Foucault. I had a few days in Paris in mid-September, where I did my usual pattern of working in the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque Nationale … Continue reading →

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Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error – Palgrave, February 2019

Posted on September 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error – Palgrave, February 2019 Examining Georges Canguilhem’s enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault’s first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Penal Theories and Institutions – Palgrave, January 2020? (was November 2019, and previously 2018)

Posted on September 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Update: the Palgrave site now says January 2020 24 November 2019 – but they have missed several previous dates… Michel Foucault, Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972 – Palgrave November 2018 “What characterizes the act of justice is not … Continue reading →

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Cuadernos de Teoría Social open access special issue on ‘Teoría social en el archivo’, edited by Rodrigo Cordero and Francisco Salinas

Posted on September 3, 2018 by stuartelden

Cuadernos de Teoría Social has a special issue on ‘Teoría social en el archivo’, edited by Rodrigo Cordero and Francisco Salinas. As well as an introduction by the editors, it includes pieces by Edith Hanke, me, Oriana Bernasconi and Maxigas. There … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 19: A Writing and Cycling Retreat in the Peak District

Posted on August 27, 2018 by stuartelden

I’m just back from a couple of weeks in the Peak District, in the south near Bakewell and the north in Holmfirth. The idea was to have a consolidated period of work on this book. The internet connection was somewhere … Continue reading →

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Mattias Leanza review of Foucault’s Last Decade in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (requires subscription)

Posted on August 27, 2018 by stuartelden

Mattias Leanza reviews Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity, 2016) in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (requires subscription). It’s a generous and positive review which ‘highly recommends’ the book. All the reviews of this book, and of Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 18: back to work, and thinking about the 1960s

Posted on August 10, 2018 by stuartelden

It’s taken longer than anticipated for me to return to the work on The Early Foucault. The last update was back in April. Through the spring the book on Canguilhem was drafted, revised and then submitted to Polity Press on 4 … Continue reading →

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