Category Archives: Michel Foucault

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

Posted on August 11, 2024 by stuartelden

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

Posted on August 7, 2024 by stuartelden

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”

Posted on July 31, 2024 by stuartelden

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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Peter Osborne (ed.) Futurethoughts: Critical Histories of Philosophy – CRMEP, 2024 (open access; includes new translations of Foucault)

Posted on July 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Peter Osborne (ed.) Futurethoughts: Critical Histories of Philosophy – CRMEP, 2024 Available open access, this includes new translations of Foucault – parts of his 1950s course on anthropology and his tribute to Jean Hyppolite. Contributors: Isabelle Alfandary, Éric Alliez, Anna … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s revised texts – a list with links to comparisons

Posted on July 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault did not continually revise his earlier texts in the way some other authors do. But some of his books and articles do exist in different versions. This is not always fully recognised, and some of these changes are … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité – ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Vrin, September 2024

Posted on July 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité – ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Vrin, September 2024 A really important collection of material around the early stages of the History of Sexuality, including insights into volumes not published, and a critical … Continue reading →

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Posted on July 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms underlying … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rose, Sartre, Koyré, Benveniste, Greimas, Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2024 by stuartelden

The reedition of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work; Sartre’s Literary and Philosophical Essays; the Mélanges collections for Alexandre Koyré and Emile Benveniste; Algirdas Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology; and Foucault’s Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France – audio recordings being posted online

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Today is the fortieth anniversary of Foucault’s death. The Collège de France are putting the surviving audio recordings of his lectures online – Le Pouvoir psychiatrique is up now, with others to follow. I’ve previously listed audio and video recordings … Continue reading →

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