Category Archives: The Archaeology of Foucault

Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken, Mill, Rancière, Badiou, Salmon, Sirinelli

Posted on December 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently for the Foucault work, related projects and J.S. Mill for teaching. I’m teaching the history of political thought again this year, and while I have most of the texts we’re using, didn’t have Mill’s Considerations on … Continue reading →

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It was fifty years ago today… Michel Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, 2 December 1970

Posted on December 2, 2020 by stuartelden

On 2 December 1970, Michel Foucault delivered his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. He was 44 years old. My thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for alerting me to this anniversary. Had this not been such a crazy term, it … Continue reading →

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Four more papers from the ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ special issue of Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on November 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Four more papers from the ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, which I’m co-editing with Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini, are available online first. These require subscription. Rainer Nicolaysen, Foucault in Hamburg. Notes … Continue reading →

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Books received – Montinari, Dumézil, Othmani, Lazreg, Deleuze, Watkin, BNF

Posted on October 15, 2020 by stuartelden

All bought this time, mainly for the ongoing Foucault work. Marnia Lazreg’s Foucault’s Orient is now in paperback, and finally got a copy of Christopher Watkin’s Michel Serres: Figures of Thought. Ahmed Othmani was one of Foucault’s students in Tunisia, … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 3: Early versions of some texts, the Port-Royal Grammar, Foucault’s work on literature, Bataille and Nietzsche, and a writing break in Wales

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

A lot of the time recently has been spent revising The Early Foucault, but that is now done, and in the run-up to term I spent a bit of time on this manuscript. Ordinarily I’d have had to spend this time preparing teaching, … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 33: Completion of the manuscript, expanded table of contents, and moving into production

Posted on October 2, 2020 by stuartelden

In the last update on the writing of this book, back in May, I talked about how the impact of the coronavirus had made it impossible to complete the manuscript. At that time, it wasn’t clear when I would be able … Continue reading →

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Books received – Port-Royal, Gregory, Roussel, Dumézil, Said, Love

Posted on September 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Jeff Love’s biography of Alexandre Kojève, Edward Said’s Beginnings – both in recompense for review work, and some second-hand books for various things, mainly in relation to the Foucault work. Foucault introduced the Port-Royal Grammaire, and the issue of Langages … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 2: The Birth of the Clinic, a trip to Paris, working on courses on Sexuality and Les mots et les choses

Posted on August 14, 2020 by stuartelden

While I continue to find focus a challenge as the world lurches from one crisis to another, I’ve been doing various bits of work for this book on Foucault’s work in the 1960s. I continued work on the comparison of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss, Mountz, Balzac

Posted on July 31, 2020 by stuartelden

Some recently published or reprinted books from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for review work, including Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago and a new translation of Balzac’s Lost Illusions, and some second-hand books, mainly in … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 1: Organisation, textual comparisons and a working timeline

Posted on July 13, 2020 by stuartelden

After an initial burst of enthusiasm, I’m already beginning to realise the scale of some of the tasks ahead of me with this book. The final chapter of The Early Foucault discusses the way History of Madness was initially received, … Continue reading →

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