Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Books received – Antoniol, Foucault, Benveniste, Woodard

Posted on December 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt; Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures, edited by John Rajchman; and second-hand copies of Benveniste’s Problems in General Linguistics, Autour d’Émile Benveniste and Roger Woodard (ed.), The Ancient Languages … Continue reading →

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Richard Lynch and Daniele Lorenzini, Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation – newly updated (2023)

Posted on December 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Lynch’s very useful Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation has been newly updated by Daniele Lorenzini. This is a continual work in progress, and updates and corrections should be sent to Daniele for inclusion in future versions (details … Continue reading →

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Foucault News Info wanted: What fountain pen did Foucault write with?

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

At Foucault News, Clare O’Farrell asks for information – What fountain pen did Foucault write with? Editor: I have recently developed an interest in fountain pens and was wondering if anybody knew what brand of fountain pen Foucault used? He may have used a … Continue reading →

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The 13/13 Essays – material linked to the seminars of The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

For several years Bernard Harcourt and colleagues at The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought have been running a series of 13/13 seminars. The seminars usually have short essays by participants available online, and now they are being collected on … Continue reading →

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Books received – Mauss, Ginzburg, Amin, Lefebvre, Foucault, Jackson, Danielsson

Posted on December 1, 2023 by stuartelden

A mix of recently bought books along with Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance, sent by Polity, and the long-awaited hardback of Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography. I think I’ve mentioned all the … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 15: A first trip to the Paris archives since the spring and more archive work in the UK

Posted on November 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m now back at work full time, though very grateful to be free of teaching and administrative duties, and I am feeling much better and more like myself. I was in Paris for two weeks this month, which was the … Continue reading →

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Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt – Éditions Mimesis, November 2023

Posted on November 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt – Éditions Mimesis, November 2023 Cet essai est consacré aux analyses de Michel Foucault sur la guerre, un sujet qui n’a pas toujours reçu l’attention qu’il mérite et qui joue … Continue reading →

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Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault in English and German – MHRA, Autumn 2024

Posted on November 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault in English and German – MHRA, Autumn 2024 Hardback initially, but paperback and e-book forthcoming The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) form a multilingual network of ideas. It is for this … Continue reading →

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A new translation and critical edition of Michel Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic – edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Stuart Elden, translated by Marie Satya McDonough – beginning a new project

Posted on November 9, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m very happy to be working with Tony Bruce at Routledge, Stefanos Geroulanos (as co-editor) and Marie Satya McDonough (as translator) on a new translation and critical edition of Michel Foucault’s classic book Birth of the Clinic. This will be a … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures, 50 years on – conference in Buenos Aires, 13-17 November 2023

Posted on November 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Buenos Aires conference next week on Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures, 50 years on. Apologies for not having a link to a conference website – happy to update if anyone knows of one. [Update: Foucault News has a pdf … Continue reading →

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