Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault Studies 38 published, including a theme section on Foucault and Nietzsche, and a ‘Buffalo dossier’ (all open access)

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 38 is now published There are essays by Johanna Oksala and Philipp Kender, and a special section on Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche, with pieces by Orazio Irrera, Federico Testa, Emmanuel Salanskis, Daniele Lorenzini and Frédéric Porcher. This issue … Continue reading →

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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History – University of Chicago Press, April 2026

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History – University of Chicago Press, April 2026 A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities—and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 30 – archive work in Paris, Bern and Cambridge, MA, and Benveniste’s library

Posted on November 12, 2025 by stuartelden

The formal end of the Leverhulme major research fellowship for the Indo-European thought project was at the end of September, but I have a no-cost extension until the end of January. This is invaluable, and is effectively to extend the grant for … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Duby, Stratford, Hage, Ramnoux

Posted on November 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The newly published transcription of Foucault’s 1972 course in Buffalo, two autobiographical accounts by Georges Duby, Elaine Stratford’s remarkable book The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair, Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, and the two volumes of … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Hermaphrodites – from Herculine Barbin to a planned volume of the History of Sexuality and the recently published manuscript

Posted on November 2, 2025 by stuartelden

In May 1978, Foucault edited the memoir of a “hermaphrodite”, Herculine Barbin, for publication. In the dossier of documents appended to that text he says that “the question of strange destinies like these and which posed such problems for medicine … Continue reading →

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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift – reposted for the 90th anniversary of Said’s birth

Posted on November 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Edward Said was born 90 years ago today – one day after David Harvey. Here’s a piece on Said I wrote earlier this year about his early career – The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift Given all his … Continue reading →

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Jean-François Suratteau, Les métamorphoses de l’art de gouverner Michel Foucault au Collège de France – Vrin, September 2025, and interview

Posted on October 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Jean-François Suratteau, Les métamorphoses de l’art de gouverner Michel Foucault au Collège de France – Vrin, September 2025 Entretien avec Jean-François Suratteau. Thanks to Foucault News for the links. Michel Foucault est un auteur polymorphe, qui a su toucher, par ses … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gusdorf, Foucault, Wolff, Ellenberger, Ramnoux, Dosse, Mabon

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Books bought new or second-hand – Georges Gusdorf, Le crépuscule des illusions; Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites; Étienne Wolff, Les Changements de sexe; François Ellenberger, Histoire de la géologie 1; Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, … Continue reading →

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Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025)

Posted on October 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025) – via Foucault News

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024; Book launch, University of Bristol 22 October 2025

Posted on October 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Book launch, University of Bristol 22 October 2025 You are warmly invited to a book launch and roundtable discussion with Dr. Federico … Continue reading →

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