Category Archives: Michel Foucault

CFP: Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles – 18-19 October 2024, Vienna

Posted on May 30, 2024 by stuartelden

CFP: Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles (2024)

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Bibliothèque nationale de France – famous reader cards, including Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes

Posted on May 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Chroniques de la BnF 100 has some of the Bibliothèque Nationale’s famous reader’s cards Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes are online at the link. I previously shared Foucault’s card, with an attempt to decipher what it meant. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024

Posted on May 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 Out at the end of this month. « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et … Continue reading →

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Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, hors-série Les Essentiels 16, April-May 2024

Posted on May 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024 Il y a quarante ans, le 25 juin 1984, Michel Foucault disparaissait, emporté par le sida. Il avait 57 ans. Cette mort interrompait une existence prolifique et turbulente. Bâtir une … Continue reading →

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Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century – Toronto, 29-30 May 2024

Posted on May 15, 2024 by stuartelden
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Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access)

Posted on May 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access) From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 19: back to Dumézil, politics, and Benveniste in Persia and Afghanistan

Posted on April 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project, I have begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. This is another fascinating period, partly because of the range of books he published – 14 in 11 … Continue reading →

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Books received – Chevallier, Behrent, Testa, Bloch & Febvre, Kadercan, Barthes, Koyré

Posted on April 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books I’ve mentioned here recently – Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le christianisme: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years; Federico Testa (ed.), Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – a special issue of Revue … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024

Posted on April 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et je n’ai écrit sur Nietzsche qu’un tout … 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 →

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