Category Archives: The Early Foucault

The Early Foucault update 30: working at the BnF, Collège de France, Archives Nationales, and Sorbonne

Posted on February 10, 2020 by stuartelden

In the last update, I mentioned the work I’d been doing in Paris and Tübingen, and said I’d agreed to write a book on Foucault in the 1960s, again for Polity, with the working title of The Archaeology of Foucault … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Binswanger et l’analyse existentielle, edited by Elisabetta Basso – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, April 2020

Posted on January 27, 2020 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Binswanger et l’analyse existentielle, edited by Elisabetta Basso – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, forthcoming April 2020. Nothing on the publisher sites yet, but it is listed in online bookstores. More details when available. This is a substantial text by Foucault which … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 29 – Paris, Tübingen and a book on the 1960s

Posted on January 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Since the last update on the writing of this book a couple of months ago, I’ve been continuing work on this manuscript. Some of this was following up on things that I discovered when in Switzerland in November, especially relating to … Continue reading →

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Foucault at Warwick – 17 January 2020, 5pm, with Alison Downham Moore, Lisa Downing, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini and Federico Testa

Posted on January 2, 2020 by stuartelden

Foucault at Warwick, 17 January 2020, 5pm, with Alison Downham Moore, Lisa Downing,  Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini and Federico Testa – free and open to all. I’ll be speaking about the archival work I’ve done on the early Foucault.

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The Early Foucault Update 28 – second half of the manuscript, Swiss archives and asylums

Posted on November 12, 2019 by stuartelden

Term 1 is when I do most of my teaching, but I’ve been doing a little bit of work on my The Early Foucault manuscript most days. I’ve mainly been reworking the organisation of the second half of the text. Chapter 6 … Continue reading →

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Foucault resources – some updates and reorganisation

Posted on October 7, 2019 by stuartelden

While I’ve been writing the sequence of books on Foucault for Polity – Foucault’s Last Decade;  Foucault: The Birth of Power and the ongoing The Early Foucault – I’ve been making available some research resources. These have included bibliographies, lists of audio and … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 27: Paris, Wales, Kant

Posted on September 30, 2019 by stuartelden

Thankfully, this book manuscript has been the main focus again of work over the past month. I’ve been continuing to work on Foucault’s relation to Dumézil, on Foucault’s time in Warsaw and Hamburg, and other things in the later 1950s. … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 26 – Defert, Wahl, Warsaw, Hamburg, Dumézil

Posted on August 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Since the last update, and a short holiday in Wales, I’ve been systematically going through each of the previously drafted chapters, and doing a bit of reorganization. I’ve also worked through all the issues of Le Magazine Littéraire which have theme … Continue reading →

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Books received – Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis and some for the early Foucault work

Posted on August 22, 2019 by stuartelden

A copy of Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis, generously sent by Martin, and some second-hand ones for The Early Foucault work. Clavel, Mauriac and Italiaander all knew Foucault at different times, and Pestana is a useful study of his early … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 25 – back after a long break on other projects

Posted on July 26, 2019 by stuartelden

It’s been over five months since I posted an update on The Early Foucault, and it is only in the last couple of weeks that I’ve really been back at work on the manuscript. In the spring and early summer … Continue reading →

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