Category Archives: People

Michel Foucault et la géopolitique. Journée d’étude – 13 October 2026

Posted on September 22, 2026 by stuartelden
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Michel Foucault, La Croisade des enfants – ed. Arianna Sforzini with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Flammarion, October 2026

Posted on September 22, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La Croisade des enfants – ed. Arianna Sforzini with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Flammarion, October 2026 This is big news – the publication of a mid-1970s manuscript, planned for the original thematic version of the History of Sexuality, but abandoned … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil’s journalism and his 1924 account of the Tutankhamun discovery 

Posted on September 20, 2026 by stuartelden

In November 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter first opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor. In March 1924, the French comparative mythologist Georges Dumézil wrote a short newspaper piece about the Egyptian pharaoh. … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, introduction by Frédéric Gros, Chronology by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notes and index by Dan di Razza Dilasser – Bibliothèque de la Pléiade October 2026

Posted on September 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, introduction by Frédéric Gros, Chronology by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notes and index by Dan di Razza Dilasser – Bibliothèque de la Pléiade October 2026 I’ve mentioned this collection before, but thanks to Foucault News for … Continue reading →

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No, not that Henri Lefebvre – The Missing Pieces

Posted on September 13, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned this before, but the Henri Lefebvre who wrote Les unités perdues (2004, 2011), translated by David L. Sweet as The Missing Pieces (2014), is not the Henri Lefebvre who wrote The Production of Space and The Critique of Everyday Life, among many other works.  For one thing, … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg-Perry Anderson correspondence in New Left Review

Posted on September 12, 2026 by stuartelden

The current issue of New Left Review has some of the correspondence between Perry Anderson and Carlo Ginzburg, with an introduction by Anderson (requires subscription).

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Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism and Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature – new editions, Princeton University Press, September 2026

Posted on September 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism – new edition, Princeton University Press, September 2026 Foreword by Caleb Smith and Paul North (the sample material online appears to be from Marxism and Form instead). In The Prison-House of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eco, Lefebvre, Mandrou, Moore and Fedorowich, Nerlich, Coletti, Deutsch, Prosperi

Posted on September 8, 2026 by stuartelden

A mix of books bought new or second-hand – Umberto Eco, How to Spot a Fascist; Henri Lefebvre (no, not that Henri Lefebvre), The Missing Pieces; Robert Mandrou, Magistrats et sorciers en France au XVIIe siècle: Une analyse de psychologie historique; … Continue reading →

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The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft

Posted on September 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Throughout his career Foucault made many promises of books he planned to write, only some of which were fulfilled. In History of Madness in 1961 he said: We will show in another study how the experience of the demonic and its waning … Continue reading →

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David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse – Denoël, September 2026

Posted on September 1, 2026 by stuartelden

David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse – Denoël, September 2026 À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Michel Foucault, première enquête sur la jeunesse de l’un des penseurs les plus influents du monde contemporain. Raconter les années … Continue reading →

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