Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023

Posted on August 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023 [the print book link has some more detail, including some endorsements] This looks a useful collection, though despite what the description says most of the texts are … Continue reading →

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Books received – Milner, Lévi-Strauss, Lefebvre, Guattari, Saussure, Walters & Tazzioli

Posted on June 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books for the Indo-European thought project, together with the copy of Musset Henri Lefebvre gave to Georges Bataille (more here) and William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality, in which I have a chapter on Foucault and … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Felix Guattari, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault | 4 Comments

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ – *open access until mid-June*

Posted on June 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini A reminder that all papers are open access until mid June 2023 – after that date only a few … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 12: working in some UK archives; Benveniste’s EPHE teaching; some talks on the research

Posted on May 26, 2023 by stuartelden

After the last update a friend contacted me with some valuable information – about an archive which was already on my list of ones to try to visit when in the United States next year, but should certainly now be … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Eric Hobsbawm, Georges Dumézil, Gillian Rose, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ – all papers open access until mid June 2023

Posted on May 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘ all papers open access until mid June 2023 co-edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini The issue includes papers by most of the editors of the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Koyré, Foucault, Eliade & Pettazzoni, Axelos, Evans

Posted on May 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Alexandre Koyré’s Introduction à la lecture de Platon; the Eliade-Pettazzoni correspondence and Richard Evans’s biography of Eric Hobsbawm, all bought second-hand, along with Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World and Michel Foucault, Le discours philosophique, kindly sent by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Eric Hobsbawm, Kostas Axelos, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade | 2 Comments

Samuel Lindholm, Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era – Routledge, September 2023

Posted on May 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Samuel Lindholm, Jean Bodin and Biopolitics Before the Biopolitical Era – Routledge, September 2023 A prohibitively priced hardback only at this point… This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of biopolitics and the connection between this and the technology … Continue reading →

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William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality – Edward Elgar, April 2023 (limited parts open access)

Posted on May 5, 2023 by stuartelden

William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality – Edward Elgar, April 2023 Now published, though as an expensive hardback and e-book. The front matter, Introduction and first chapter by Daniele Lorenzini are available open access. My piece in … Continue reading →

Posted in Colin Gordon, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault | 2 Comments

Marie-Laure Massot, “Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault” – Archive ouverte HAL

Posted on May 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault – Archive ouverte HAL Marie-Laure Massot, “Mettre en ligne, annoter et exploiter les fiches de lecture de Michel Foucault“. Master. Atelier autour des archives, Centre documentaire du … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Koyré and a network of ideas

Posted on April 26, 2023 by stuartelden

In several previous projects – on Foucault, Heidegger, Canguilhem, territory – I’ve briefly mentioned the work of Alexandre Koyré. He’s coming up again in the new work in relation to Benveniste, Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson. Koyré introduced Lévi-Strauss to Jakobson … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Husserl, Emile Benveniste, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Roman Jakobson, Territory | 13 Comments