Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault’s Historical Imaginary – Western Sydney University, 14 June 2022, online

Posted on June 10, 2022 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Historical Imaginary – Western Sydney University, 14 June 2022, online. Free, but registration required. 6-8pm AEST; 9-11am BST. A discussion of Foucault’s historical method with Alison Downham Moore, Mark G. E. Kelly, and Stuart Elden. Despite the enormous influence … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022, cover and preorder details

Posted on May 31, 2022 by stuartelden

The final book in my series of studies of Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, is due for publication with Polity in December 2022. On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought project update 3: Paris – Foucault, Canguilhem, Dumézil

Posted on May 9, 2022 by stuartelden

I had a good two-week visit to Paris, where I worked at both the Mitterand and Richelieu sites of the Bibliothèque nationale, the Collège de France and the École normale supérieure. It was something of a transitional trip, doing a … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Madness, Language, Literature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel, translated by Robert Bononno, University of Chicago Press, February 2023

Posted on May 2, 2022 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Madness, Language, Literature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel, translated by Robert Bononno, University of Chicago Press, February 2023 Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, La Question anthropologique. Cours, 1954-1955 (2022)

Posted on May 2, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, La Question anthropologique. Cours, 1954-1955, EHSS, Gallimard Seuil, 10 juin 2022 Qu’est-ce que l’homme ? Michel Foucault, au mitan des années 1950, consacre une partie de son enseignement, dispensé à l’université de Lille…

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Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity – reviewed at Berfrois (open access)

Posted on April 22, 2022 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. At Berfrois, I review Paul Allen Miller’s recent book Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 15: submission of the revised manuscript and the end of the project

Posted on April 8, 2022 by stuartelden

On Wednesday afternoon, I submitted the final, revised manuscript of The Archaeology of Foucault to Polity. I’d submitted the manuscript for review in February during Warwick’s reading week, and had two very positive and useful reports back at the end of March. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Ginzburg, Mauss, Eliade, Goldstein, Brennan

Posted on April 6, 2022 by stuartelden

A couple by Carlo Ginzburg, including his new Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal, the Hau books edition of Marcel Mauss, The Gift, translated by Jane Guyer with additional material, an older book by Mircea Eliade, Jan Goldstein’s Foucault and the Writing of … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault talk, the end of term and 3 million blog visits

Posted on March 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Today I enjoyed speaking about the work that went into The Early Foucault with the Genealogy in the Humanities project (Syracuse University and Cornell University). Thanks to Alex Livingston and Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for organising, and those who attended and asked questions. … Continue reading →

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Stjuart Elden: Fuko: Rođenje moći – Serbian translation of Foucault: The Birth of Power by Tomislav Kargačin, Mediterran, 2019

Posted on February 12, 2022 by stuartelden

Stjuart Elden: Fuko: Rođenje moći – Serbian translation of Foucault: The Birth of Power by Tomislav Kargačin, Mediterran, 2019 This came out a while ago, but I’ve only just now received copies. Many thanks to Tomislav Kargačin for the work on the … Continue reading →

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