Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Excerpt from The Archaeology of Foucault at The Montreal Review (open access)

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

A short excerpt from the coda of The Archaeology of Foucault is available open access at The Montréal Review. It discusses Foucault’s tributes to Jean Hyppolite and the visits to SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and 1972. Thanks to publicity staff … Continue reading →

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Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, Senate House, London, 19 May 2023 – organised by Henry Somers-Hall with Julia Ng, Alan Schrift, Daniel Smith, Charles Stivale and Stuart Elden

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

On 19 May 2023 I’ll speaking at a workshop on Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition, organised by Henry Somers-Hall for Royal Holloway, University of London. It will be held in central London at Senate House. Registration is … Continue reading →

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Sur les traces de Georges Canguilhem – CAPHÉS website with archive information, bibliographies, interviews, etc.

Posted on March 30, 2023 by stuartelden

The CAPHÉS archive in Paris, which houses Georges Canguilhem’s archive and his library, among other valuable resources, has produced an invaluable website about his work. Sur les traces de Georges Canguilhem Le philosophe Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) est un ancien élève … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 10: Dumézil’s early work and archives; the Collège de Sociologie and Blanchot; Eliade in Paris; Lévi-Strauss

Posted on March 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project, the main task has been beginning to work through Dumézil’s books and articles in broadly chronological order, filling in some gaps in my earlier reading, and trying to write a bit about each. So far, I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, The Archaeology of Foucault | 3 Comments

Foucault before the Collège de France – theme issue of Theory, Culture & Society, now published

Posted on March 26, 2023 by stuartelden

‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ – theme issue of Theory, Culture & Society, coming soon, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini [Update: the whole issue is now online here] Some of the papers are available online … Continue reading →

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Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years – Penn Press, December 2023

Posted on March 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years – Penn Press, December 2023 Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Even Foucault’s biographers have neglected this … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, edited by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, May 2023

Posted on February 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, edited by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, May 2023 This is a previously unpublished manuscript, probably from 1966, written after The Order of Things and before or alongside early work on what became … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought project update 9: Dumézil’s courses; Benveniste’s teaching records; Barthes, Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida; and a forthcoming article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Posted on January 31, 2023 by stuartelden

Over the last month I have made some progress on a few different aspects of this project.  The main task in Paris was continuing working through the boxes of Georges Dumézil’s courses, held at the Collège de France archives. I’ve now … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Felix Guattari, Georges Dumézil, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, The Archaeology of Foucault | 2 Comments

William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality – Edward Elgar, April 2023

Posted on January 28, 2023 by stuartelden

William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality – Edward Elgar, April 2023 My piece in here is entitled “The Yoke of Law and the Lustre of Glory: Foucault and Dumézil on Sovereignty”. It’s the first in a series … Continue reading →

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Elisabetta Basso’s Young Foucault reviewed in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (behind paywall; some excerpts here)

Posted on January 18, 2023 by stuartelden

I have a review of Elisabetta Basso’s excellent Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955, translated by Marie Satya McDonough (Columbia University Press, 2022) in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The review is unfortunately … Continue reading →

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