Category Archives: Ludwig Binswanger

The Early Foucault update 30: working at the BnF, Collège de France, Archives Nationales, and Sorbonne

Posted on February 10, 2020 by

In the last update, I mentioned the work I’d been doing in Paris and Tübingen, and said I’d agreed to write a book on Foucault in the 1960s, again for Polity, with the working title of The Archaeology of Foucault … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 29 – Paris, Tübingen and a book on the 1960s

Posted on January 23, 2020 by

Since the last update on the writing of this book a couple of months ago, I’ve been continuing work on this manuscript. Some of this was following up on things that I discovered when in Switzerland in November, especially relating to … Continue reading →

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Correspondance entre Gaston Bachelard et Ludwig Binswanger – open access

Posted on January 22, 2020 by

Correspondance entre Gaston Bachelard et Ludwig Binswanger – open access online It’s part of a special issue of Revue Germanique Internationale on ‘Histoire et philosophie de la psychiatrie au XXe siècle : regards croisés franco-allemands’, edited by Elisabetta Basso et … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 28 – second half of the manuscript, Swiss archives and asylums

Posted on November 12, 2019 by

Term 1 is when I do most of my teaching, but I’ve been doing a little bit of work on my The Early Foucault manuscript most days. I’ve mainly been reworking the organisation of the second half of the text. Chapter 6 … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 17: Canguilhem, Beinecke library and back to Foucault

Posted on April 19, 2018 by

I wrote the last update on this book over two months ago, just as I was finishing up an extended research visit to Paris. Since then I’ve mainly been focusing on the Canguilhem manuscript, which is inching toward a near … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Althusser, Connolly, Heron, the Ellen West case and Sword

Posted on October 30, 2017 by

The Turkish translation of Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, which includes my introduction to the English edition; Althusser’s How to be a Marxist in Philosophy, William E. Connolly’s Facing the Planetary, Nicolas Heron’s Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology, a collection of … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 9: from Shakespeare back to Foucault and Canguilhem

Posted on August 9, 2017 by

I’ve spent most of the first half of the summer revising my Shakespeare manuscript, which is now resubmitted. But I have been doing a little work on the early Foucault in the meantime, and on Canguilhem. With the latter, much … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 6: Foucault’s teachers, and returning to his work on Binswanger

Posted on April 13, 2017 by

I’ve largely been able to continue the focus of the last update, with a series of fairly uninterrupted days’ research and writing. Aside from continuing work on Lacan, I’ve also been looking at the people who taught Foucault. Merleau-Ponty is … Continue reading →

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Books received – Brenner, Foucault, Macauley, Binswanger

Posted on January 25, 2017 by

Neil Brenner’s Critique of Urbanization, the translation of Foucault’s Mental Illness and Psychology (for the intro by Hubert Dreyfus); David Macauley’s Elemental Philosophy and Ludwig Binswanger’s Ausgewählte Werke. Neil kindly sent me a copy of his book, the Macauley was recompense for review work, and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Binswanger, Canguilhem, Lacan

Posted on January 23, 2017 by

Some books for the new Foucault project – works by Georges Canguilhem and Jacques Lacan, picked up in Paris, and Jacqueline Verdeaux’s translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s Dream and Existence which Foucault advised and introduced.

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