Category Archives: Books

Remigiusz Ryziński discusses Foucault’s time in Poland

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Remigiusz Ryziński discusses his book Foucault w Warszawie, an account of the short period Foucault spent in Poland in the late 1950s – between his time in Uppsala and Warsaw. While the interview is in Polish, machine translation seems to … Continue reading →

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Beginning work on the revision of Shakespearean Territories – and the climb that awaits at the end of it

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Today I begin work on the revisions for Shakespearean Territories. At the end of this work – in about three weeks’ time – I’m off to Provence for a week of cycling, including Mont Ventoux.

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Work for the summer – Shakespeare, Canguilhem and Foucault

Posted on July 7, 2017 by stuartelden

My last talk of the 2016-17 academic year was in Stockholm at the Nordic Geographers Meeting. This academic year, despite saying ‘no’ quite a lot, I gave twenty visiting talks, in seven different countries (UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, … Continue reading →

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A copy of Foucault and Rocher’s translation of Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Der Gestaltkreis

Posted on July 4, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve been looking for a copy of Foucault and Daniel Rocher’s translation of Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Der Gestaltkreis as Le Cycle de la Structure for sometime, and now have a copy. While the German text is widely available, the translation was … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – now available in Chinese translation

Posted on July 3, 2017 by stuartelden

My 2013 book The Birth of Territory is now available in Chinese translation. It can be ordered here.  

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Stuart Elden, Speaking Against Number (EUP 2006) now available at reduced price

Posted on July 3, 2017 by stuartelden

My 2006 book Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language and the Politics of Calculation is now available at reduced price from Edinburgh University Press. It was only ever published in hardback, and previously available only at a very high price. It’s … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 8: two days in the Carolina Rediviva library, Uppsala

Posted on June 23, 2017 by stuartelden

My ongoing research into Foucault’s research and the writing of his History of Madness has taken me to Uppsala, where Foucault worked between 1955 and 1958. This was just a very brief reconnaissance trip – made possible as a side-visit … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gilot, Boehringer and Lorenzini, Debrix, Chimisso, Merleau-Ponty, Sloterdijk, Stratford, Johnston and Sidaway

Posted on June 8, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books, many in recompense for review work. The Chimisso and Merleau-Ponty are for the Foucault and Canguilhem projects; but also second-hand copies of Françoise Gilot’s biography Life with Picasso, and Boehringer and Lorenzini’s collection on … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 7: Canguilhem, Barraqué, von Weizsäcker, and a short trip to the Bibliothèque Nationale

Posted on June 2, 2017 by stuartelden

My focus for the last several weeks has been the work on Canguilhem, although as I’ve previously noted, I see these two projects as supporting each other. There have been lots of moments when I’ve thought ‘I know that because … Continue reading →

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Translation of ‘Territory without Borders’ in Iran’s Shargh Daily

Posted on May 31, 2017 by stuartelden

My 2011 short essay ‘Territory without Borders‘, which originally appeared in the Harvard International Review, has been translated for the May 28, 2017 issue of the Iranian paper Shargh Daily. My thanks to Sahand Sattari for making the translation. In 2015 he … Continue reading →

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