Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Review of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil

My review of Marcelo Hoffman’s remarkable book Foucault in Brazil is scheduled to appear in Political Theory next year, but is now available online first. Many thanks to Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for asking me to write the review, and Marcelo for … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 23: Emile Benveniste and Georges Dumézil at the Collège de France, and an article on Alexandre Koyré

The chapter I’m currently working on for the Mapping Indo-European Thought project is a study of the two decades Benveniste and Dumézil were teaching in parallel at the Collège de France. I’ve been concentrating on Dumézil so far, but I plan to … Continue reading

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‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’, Theory, Culture & Society special issue – all papers currently free to access

If you missed the 2023 Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society on ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘, which I edited with Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera… All papers are open access or free access at the moment Papers … Continue reading

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Books received – The Anti-Security Collective, Barthes, de Beistegui, Duchesne-Guillemin, Nabokov, JHI, Barua, Dumézil

A pile of recently bought or sent books including The Anti-Security Collective, The Security Abolition Manifesto, Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Zoroastre, Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of The Song of Igor’s Campaign, the most recent issue of the … Continue reading

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Stuart Elden, “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, online first in History of European Ideas (open access)

My article “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, is now available online first in History of European Ideas, and it’s open access. This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in … Continue reading

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Books received – Koyré, Meillet, Benveniste, Canguilhem, Foucault

Bought new or second-hand for various projects, along with the new collection of previously unpublished material by Foucault, sent by the publisher – Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by Bernard Harcourt.

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New issue of Parrhesia with translation of a short text by Foucault, ‘Message or Noise?’ with a commentary by Chris O’Neill

The latest issue of Parrhesia is out, with a translation of and commentary on a short text by Foucault. All open access. Foucault and information theory: on “message or noise?” (1966) – Chris O’Neill “Message or noise?” – Michel Foucault, … Continue reading

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“Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, forthcoming in History of European Ideas; and a talk on Canguilhem and Koyré in Bristol

In some previous updates on my Indo-European thought project, I’d mentioned doing some research on Alexandre Koyré. In March and May. I said I’d been working on a piece about his unsuccessful attempt to get elected to a chair at … Continue reading

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Stuart Blaney, Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Stuart Blaney, Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 22: finishing a draft of a chapter on Dumézil between 1938 and 1949; continuing work on Benveniste’s archive; and an article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

July has been a steady month of progress on this project. I’d hoped to complete the chapter on Georges Dumézil’s work between 1938 and 1949 well before now, but it continued into this month too. It is another very long … Continue reading

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