Category Archives: The Early Foucault

Berfrois articles – a complete archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Posted on September 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … Continue reading →

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Berfrois articles – an archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Posted on August 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernst Kantorowicz, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Georges Dumézil, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

The rediscovery of the typescripts of Foucault’s History of Madness and introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault

Posted on March 5, 2025 by stuartelden

This is very interesting – the discovery of typescript versions of Foucault’s History of Madness and introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault – Emmanuel le Doeff, À la découverte des thèses annotées de Michel Foucault (open access, … Continue reading →

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Lynne Huffer, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary”, boundary 2, 2024 and Instagram tiles

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Lynne Huffer’s extraordinary essay, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary“, boundary 2, Vol 51 No 4, 2024 (requires subscription unfortunately). Lynne is now on Instagram and has posted several tiles relating to this essay. It’s a review article of my … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2024 by stuartelden

I’ve shared this before, but was thinking again about Daniel Defert’s memories of Foucault’s working routines in this interview – ‘The Materiality of a Working Life‘ (open access; original French). No no, weekends didn’t exist! We would go to see … Continue reading →

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Lynne Huffer, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary”, boundary 2, 2024

Posted on December 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Lynne Huffer’s extraordinary essay, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary“, has just been published in boundary 2, Vol 51 No 4, 2024 (requires subscription unfortunately). Update January 2025: Lynne is now on Instagram and has posted several tiles relating to … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes – Melusina, September 2004

Posted on October 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes, Melusina, September 2004 Pleased to hear that the Spanish translation of Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) has just been published. Many thanks to Albert Fuentes for the translation, and … Continue reading →

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“Foucault and Structuralism” – a book chapter for Daniele Lorenzini’s collection The Foucauldian Mind

Posted on April 8, 2024 by stuartelden

I recently wrote a book chapter on “Foucault and Structuralism” for The Foucauldian Mind, edited by my friend and former Warwick colleague Daniele Lorenzini. It’s been an interesting diversion from the other work. Contrary to my usual practice, where I … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Louis Althusser, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No 307, 2024

Posted on April 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, edited by Federico Testa, No 307, 2024 Congratulations to Federico for bringing this issue together – it has taken a long time, but as … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Jean Hyppolite, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work

Posted on December 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Dave Beer recalls his reading of 2023, with a nice mention of my Foucault work.

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