Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker’, Theory, Culture & Society, 2020 (open access)

Posted on November 17, 2020 by stuartelden

My article ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker‘, is now available online first in Theory, Culture & Society, 2020 Foucault’s Introduction to a translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s essay ‘Dream and Existence’ was published in late 1954. The translation … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault – Polity, June 2021

Posted on November 3, 2020 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault – Polity, June 2021 Great to see the Polity page for this book is now up, and to be able to share the cover and description here. It was not until 1961 that Foucault published … Continue reading →

Posted in Alberto Toscano, Books, Edmund Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Dumézil, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Louis Althusser, Ludwig Binswanger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault | 1 Comment

Two visual pieces on the digitisation of Foucault’s reading notes (both open access)

Posted on October 31, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned before the project to diigitise Foucault’s reading notes which are now archived at the Bibliothèque national de France. Two interesting pieces report on the project. First, a presentation given at a recent conference which gives an indication of … Continue reading →

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Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020 (currently open access e-book)

Posted on October 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Azucena G. Blanco, Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault – De Gruyter, November 2020. This appears to be currently open access as an e-book. This study proposes a revised interpretation of Foucault’s views on literature. It has been argued … Continue reading →

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Books received – Montinari, Dumézil, Othmani, Lazreg, Deleuze, Watkin, BNF

Posted on October 15, 2020 by stuartelden

All bought this time, mainly for the ongoing Foucault work. Marnia Lazreg’s Foucault’s Orient is now in paperback, and finally got a copy of Christopher Watkin’s Michel Serres: Figures of Thought. Ahmed Othmani was one of Foucault’s students in Tunisia, … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The Archaeology of Foucault update 3: Early versions of some texts, the Port-Royal Grammar, Foucault’s work on literature, Bataille and Nietzsche, and a writing break in Wales

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

A lot of the time recently has been spent revising The Early Foucault, but that is now done, and in the run-up to term I spent a bit of time on this manuscript. Ordinarily I’d have had to spend this time preparing teaching, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling, Michel Foucault, teaching, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

The Early Foucault Update 33: Completion of the manuscript, expanded table of contents, and moving into production

Posted on October 2, 2020 by stuartelden

In the last update on the writing of this book, back in May, I talked about how the impact of the coronavirus had made it impossible to complete the manuscript. At that time, it wasn’t clear when I would be able … Continue reading →

Posted in Jean Hyppolite, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault | 2 Comments

Books received – Port-Royal, Gregory, Roussel, Dumézil, Said, Love

Posted on September 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Jeff Love’s biography of Alexandre Kojève, Edward Said’s Beginnings – both in recompense for review work, and some second-hand books for various things, mainly in relation to the Foucault work. Foucault introduced the Port-Royal Grammaire, and the issue of Langages … Continue reading →

Posted in Derek Gregory, Edward Said, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault | 1 Comment

Books received – Kristeva, Lévi-Strauss, Huffer, Palti, Löwith, Barthes, Stanek

Posted on September 1, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work from Columbia University Press, and a copy of Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa and the Middle East in the Cold War, sent by the publisher.

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Julia Kristeva, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes | 1 Comment

Abolition: Critique and Praxis 13/13 including session on ‘Beyond the Punitive Society’

Posted on August 25, 2020 by stuartelden

The next season of the Critique and Praxis: 13/13 seminars run by Bernard Harcourt at Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought will be on the theme of Abolition. The series will include a session on Thursday, January 7, 2021 on … Continue reading →

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