Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Books received – Bagnato, Mandrou, Ginzburg, Puaud, Favret-Saada, Wilson

Posted on September 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape; Robert Mandrou, From Humanism to Science 1480-1700; Carlo Ginzburg, Fear Reverence Terror; David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse, Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 … Continue reading →

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Working with the Michel Foucault archives – a brief guide to what is in Paris, Normandy, Berkeley and elsewhere

Posted on September 27, 2026 by stuartelden

I am sometimes contacted by people who want advice about working with Michel Foucault’s archives. Although I’m generally happy to try to help, and there are others who are better placed to advise on specifics, I thought it might be … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault. Retour aux livres. Séminaires (2026)

Posted on September 24, 2026 by stuartelden
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Michel Foucault, The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”: Graduate Thesis in Philosophy, 1949 – ed. Christophe Bouton, trans. Emilio E. Feijóo, University of Chicago Press, August 2027

Posted on September 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”: Graduate Thesis in Philosophy, 1949 – ed. Christophe Bouton, trans. Emilio E. Feijóo, University of Chicago Press, August 2027 No cover yet, but good to see this … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Michel Foucault, Iran, quand la terre tremble: Reportage 1978-1979 – eds. Fabienne Brion, Julien Cavagnis, Sajjad Lohi and Chowra Makarem – Gallimard, September 2026

Posted on August 31, 2026 by stuartelden

I previously shared news of three Foucault books being published by Gallimard to coincide with his 100th birthday, one of which was Iran, quand la terre tremble: Reportage 1978-1979. Further details of this are now on the Gallimard site. It is … Continue reading →

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