Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) – book launch 16 April 2024, Pace University

Posted on April 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) – book launch 16 April 2024, Pace University

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The Archaeology of Foucault reviewed by David Beer in The Times Literary Supplement

Posted on April 4, 2024 by stuartelden

My 2023 book The Archaeology of Foucault is generously reviewed by David Beer in The Times Literary Supplement The review requires subscription, but email me if you can’t access a copy through an institution. Imagine Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes … Continue reading →

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Books received – Martin, Specter, Trubetzkoy, Hoffman, Strauss (and Kojève), Lincoln

Posted on March 25, 2024 by stuartelden

A collection of essays on Emile Benveniste; Matthew Specter, Habermas: An Intellectual Biography; Nicolai Trubetzkoy, The Legacy of Genghis Khan and Other Essays on Russia’s Identity; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity; Leo Strauss, On Tyranny, which … Continue reading →

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Valentina Antoniol, Foucault critico di Schmitt. Genealogie e guerra – Rubbetino, March 2024

Posted on March 24, 2024 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned the French version before – Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt, Éditions Mimesis, November 2023 – but the Italian is now published, and I understand it is longer than the French: Valentina Antoniol, Foucault critico di Schmitt. Genealogie … Continue reading →

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity – University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024

Posted on March 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity – University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024 Now published Philosopher Michel Foucault’s cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 18: further work on Benveniste and more archives in Paris

Posted on March 18, 2024 by stuartelden

In the last update on this project, I talked about the Paris archival work I’d done in early February. There were a few loose ends of references when I got back from Paris, most of which I was able to resolve … Continue reading →

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Books received – Binswanger & Warburg, Auffret, Foucault, Dumézil, Benveniste et. al, and Derrida

Posted on March 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently-bought books, mostly in Paris, including Foucault’s very early La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie and the most recently published seminar from Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024

Posted on February 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024 Le 11 juin 1949, Foucault soutient en Sorbonne son mémoire de diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie … Continue reading →

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Books received – Kojève, Mac Cumhaill & Wiseman, Bakewell, Foucault & Simon, Bloch, Brunet & Mahrer, Adluri & Bagchee

Posted on January 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books, nearly all second-hand, and mostly connected to my Mapping Indo-European Thought project. Also includes the Turkish translation of the dialogue between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon, which I edited, and to which I contributed a new … Continue reading →

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Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023

Posted on January 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023 (requires subscription) From the Editor: Foucault and Arethusa Roger D. Woodard Introduction Simon Goldhill A Self-Interested Reader? Foucault and Imperial Greek Technical Texts Claire Hall Elephants, Christians, and Pagans in … Continue reading →

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