Category Archives: Michel Foucault

The Early Foucault Update 21: Pushing Gravel Uphill

Posted on November 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Just over two years ago, while I was having something to eat in Pasadena, before a conference on Early Modern Literary Geographies, I sketched out how a pair of books on Foucault’s work up until 1969 might look. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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‘Foucault before The History of Madness’, Sussex, 7 December 2018

Posted on November 1, 2018 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking at the University of Sussex on 7 December 2018 on ‘Foucault before The History of Madness – Lectures, Translations, Nietzsche’. The talk draws on the research i’ve been doing for The Early Foucault. The ‘translations’ are ones made by Foucault … Continue reading →

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Books received – Canguilhem, Critique on Bataille, Derrida, Haghighi, Hewitt

Posted on October 30, 2018 by stuartelden

The long-awaited volume V of Georges Canguilhem, Oeuvres complètes, Critique No 195-196 – the tribute issue to Georges Bataille from 1963; Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III; Farzaneh Haghighi, Is the Tehran Bazaar Dead? Foucault, Politics, and Architecture (sent by the publisher) and Rachel Hewitt, Map of a Nation: A … Continue reading →

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Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] – Heyday 2019

Posted on October 24, 2018 by stuartelden

Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] – Heyday 2019. This is the famous/infamous memoir of Simeon Wade, with a foreword by Heather Dundas. In The Lives of Michel Foucault, … Continue reading →

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Foucault, La Sexualité (Clermont-Ferrand 1964) and Le Discours de la sexualité (Vincennes 1969) – published

Posted on October 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1964 course from Clermont-Ferrand La sexualité together with the 1969 course from Vincennes Le discours de la sexualité has now been published – received a copy yesterday. This is the first of a planned seven volumes of material from before … Continue reading →

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A few thoughts on ‘Foucault at the Movies’ – Columbia University Press 2018

Posted on October 15, 2018 by stuartelden

When Foucault va au cinéma came out in 2011, I immediately got hold of a copy. It was a collection of excerpts from Foucault’s interviews about and discussions of films, prefaced by two new introductory essays by Patrice Maniglier and Dork … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 20: Paris, some cautions and future work

Posted on October 1, 2018 by stuartelden

It’s been steady progress in the last part of summer on the manuscript of The Early Foucault. I had a few days in Paris in mid-September, where I did my usual pattern of working in the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque Nationale … Continue reading →

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Books received – Wahl, Arendt, Foucault, Jaspers, Geroulanos, Bulpitt, Derrida, Gotman

Posted on September 28, 2018 by stuartelden

A mix of books for teaching and the Foucault research – Jean Wahl, Introduction à la pensée de Heidegger; the Henri Corbin early translation of works by Heidegger; Hannah Arendt, On Violence; Foucault at the Movies; the French translation of Karl Jaspers’s book … Continue reading →

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Foucault, La sexualité/Le Discours de la sexualité (1964 and 1969 courses) – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil 2018

Posted on September 24, 2018 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La Sexualité. Cours donné à l’université de Clermont-Ferrand (1964) suivi de Le Discours de la sexualité. Cours donné à l’université de Vincennes (1969) – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil 2018 The first volume of Foucault’s pre-Collège de France courses is due for … Continue reading →

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An anonymously published text by Foucault on Arcadie – ‘Le départe du prophète’, 1982 (with an interview between Didier Eribon and André Baudry)

Posted on September 20, 2018 by stuartelden

This text was first published in Libération, July 12, 1982, p. 14 (pdf). There it is signed ‘DE’, and follows an interview with Didier Eribon with André Baudry. Readers would assume that ‘DE’ meant Didier Eribon, but in his book Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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