Category Archives: Louis Althusser

Books received – Macherey, Kurlander, Vuillerod, Kristeva, Vernant, Benveniste, Trubetzkoy, Dumézil

Posted on February 8, 2022 by stuartelden

A mix of second-hand books, mostly for the new project on Indo-European thought in France, along with a copy of Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel, and another volume of the Théorie series, Pierre Macherey, … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Dumézil, Julia Kristeva, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero – list of published volumes and English translations

Posted on February 3, 2022 by stuartelden

In the 1960s and 1970s Louis Althusser edited a series at the radical publisher François Maspero. Many of the books published were by his former students including Pierre Macherey, Étienne Balibar, Alain Badiou, Emmanuel Terray and others. There were some … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey | Leave a comment

Books received – Althusser, Pécheux and Fichant, Badiou, Terray, Balibar, Kristeva, Epstein, Danchev

Posted on January 24, 2022 by stuartelden

Some books by Althusser and his then-students – some of which I talk about here – along with Etienne Balibar’s Violence and Civility, a couple by Julia Kristeva, Charlotte Epstein’s Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Julia Kristeva, Louis Althusser | Leave a comment

Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – publications and online archive

Posted on January 20, 2022 by stuartelden

Update June 2025: a revised and expanded version of this post is here. Between 1967 and 1968 Louis Althusser and some of his students delivered a course at the ENS pitched as philosophy for scientists or non-philosophers. Some parts of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel – ENS 2022 

Posted on January 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel – ENS 2022 Contre une lecture simpliste de l’anti-hégélianisme que Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault ont défendu dans les années 1960, l’ouvrage propose un parcours dans les textes … Continue reading →

Posted in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Archaeology of Foucault update 13: drafting the chapters on The Archaeology of Knowledge and sexuality; moving to work on madness and medicine

Posted on January 7, 2022 by stuartelden

My optimistic idea of having a complete, even if very rough, draft of The Archaeology of Foucault before Christmas didn’t happen. I’d liked the idea of having a complete text, which I could then print and leave for a while … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Books received – Benveniste, Althusser, Eliade, Heidegger, Nail, Derrida, Miller, Dumézil

Posted on November 24, 2021 by stuartelden

Mostly bought second-hand, but also Thomas Nail, Theory of the Object and Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity, both sent by the publishers, and the most recent of Derrida’s seminars and Heidegger’s notebooks.

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade | 1 Comment

Books received – Nietzsche, Kremer-Marietti, Deleuze, Althusser, Canguilhem, Foucault

Posted on November 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Mostly bought second-hand, but also the latest volume of Canguilhem’s Œuvres and Foucault’s Phénoménologie et psychologie, edited by Philippe Sabot, which I bought in Paris.

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Canguilhem, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Historical Materialism conference 2021 – videos on sessions on John Bellamy Foster, Gramsci and Althusser

Posted on November 13, 2021 by stuartelden

Historical Materialism conference 2021 – videos of sessions on Althusser, Gramsci and John Bellamy Foster’s book. Lots more on the Haymarket channel.

Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser | Leave a comment

Acid Horizon podcast: ‘Foucault (With Hair)’ – discussion of The Early Foucault

Posted on August 11, 2021 by stuartelden

Acid Horizon podcast: ‘Foucault (With Hair)’ – discussion of The Early Foucault On this episode, Adam and Will are joined by Stuart Elden to discuss his latest book, The Early Foucault. We discuss the academic experiences and personal relationships that were … Continue reading →

Posted in Alberto Toscano, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault | 1 Comment