Category Archives: Books

Stuart Elden’s Foucault books reviewed and discussed (PAIS News)

Posted on November 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden’s Foucault books reviewed and discussed Stuart Elden’s two books Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity 2016) and Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity 2017) have recently been reviewed and discussed in a number of places. A review of both books can be found in The … Continue reading →

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Interview on Foucault: The Birth of Power at New Books in Critical Theory

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

How did Foucault become a public, political intellectual? In Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity Press, 2017), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick, follows up his book on Foucault’s Last Decade with research … Continue reading →

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Interviews about my Foucault books on New Books in Critical Theory (audio)

Posted on November 3, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve just been interviewed by Dave O’Brien for the New Books in Critical Theory series about Foucault: The Birth of Power. The podcast of that interview should be available shortly and I’ll share when available [update: now available here]. In the … Continue reading →

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Bruce Robbins in The Nation reviews Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power

Posted on November 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Bruce Robbins in The Nation reviews my two books Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power. It’s a generous and thoughtful review, and while I wouldn’t agree with all of it, I’m very grateful for the review and the … Continue reading →

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Conference on Foucault’s History of Sexuality volume IV, Paris, 1-3 February 2018

Posted on October 30, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to Clare O’Farrell at Foucault News for this link – Colloque International: Foucault, Les Pères et le sexe, Paris, 1-3 February 2018. A l’occasion de la parution du quatrième et dernier volume inédit du projet d’histoire de la sexualité … Continue reading →

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The differences between the English and French versions of Foucault’s 1983 interview on Raymond Roussel

Posted on October 30, 2017 by stuartelden

As an appendix to the English translation of Foucault’s book on Raymond Roussel, entitled Death and the Labyrinth, there is an interview with the translator Charles Ruas. It’s a revealing interview in many ways, but the particular interest I have … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 13: Writing during Termtime

Posted on October 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Even though it is now well into term, with all the things that entails, I have been able to make small bits of progress on The Early Foucault manuscript. I’ve said before how I try to write for two hours in … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 12: A writing/cycling retreat and some time in London’s libraries

Posted on September 29, 2017 by stuartelden

As I said at the end of the last update on this book project, after the week in the Paris archives I took a week away on a kind of writing/cycling retreat. It started as the idea of a holiday, … Continue reading →

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Daniel Defert on the Foucault-Sartre relation – a 1990 letter

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

This was not a source I knew about before: Daniel Defert, “Lettre à Claude Lanzmann”, Les Temps Modernes, No 531-533, Vol 2, 1990,  pp. 1201-1206. It’s a short piece in a massive 1400 page collection devoted to Sartre, ten years after … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories – forthcoming with University of Chicago Press in Fall 2018

Posted on September 21, 2017 by stuartelden

I am delighted to announce that my book Shakespearean Territories will be published by University of Chicago Press in Fall 2018. I received final approval yesterday, and the book is now in production. I published The Birth of Territory with the press … Continue reading →

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