Category Archives: Georges Canguilhem

Books received – Koyré, Meillet, Benveniste, Canguilhem, Foucault

Posted on August 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Bought new or second-hand for various projects, along with the new collection of previously unpublished material by Foucault, sent by the publisher – Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by Bernard Harcourt.

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“Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, forthcoming in History of European Ideas; and a talk on Canguilhem and Koyré in Bristol

Posted on August 11, 2024 by stuartelden

In some previous updates on my Indo-European thought project, I’d mentioned doing some research on Alexandre Koyré. In March and May. I said I’d been working on a piece about his unsuccessful attempt to get elected to a chair at … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 22: finishing a draft of a chapter on Dumézil between 1938 and 1949; continuing work on Benveniste’s archive; and an article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Posted on July 31, 2024 by stuartelden

July has been a steady month of progress on this project. I’d hoped to complete the chapter on Georges Dumézil’s work between 1938 and 1949 well before now, but it continued into this month too. It is another very long … Continue reading →

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Posted on July 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms underlying … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

A detailed comparison of Michel Foucault’s Two Texts on Georges Canguilhem

Posted on June 24, 2024 by stuartelden

In 1978, Foucault contributed an introduction to the English translation of Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological. The French version is included in Dits et écrits as text 219. (No translator is indicated, which suggests the editors had access to the original … Continue reading →

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Journée d’étude: Relire Canguilhem à partir des inédits – ENS-PSL, Paris 18 juin 2024

Posted on June 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Journée d’étude: Relire Canguilhem à partir des inédits – ENS-PSL, Paris 18 juin 2024

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Pierre-Frédéric Daled, Mathias Girel and Nathalie Queroux (eds.), Georges Canguilhem, 80 ans après Le Normal et le pathologique – Éditions rue d’Ulm, May 2024

Posted on May 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Pierre-Frédéric Daled, Mathias Girel and Nathalie Queroux (eds.), Georges Canguilhem, 80 ans après Le Normal et le pathologique – Éditions rue d’Ulm, May 2024 En 1943, au terme d’études de médecine entamées en 1936, l’agrégé de philosophie Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) … 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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“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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