Category Archives: People

Books received – Wade, Towarnicki, Althusser, Foucault

Posted on March 15, 2019 by stuartelden

Simeon Wade’s memoir, Foucault in California, Frédéric de Towarnicki, À la rencontre de Heidegger, Louis Althusser, Journal de captivité: Stalag XA 1940-1945, and one of the several issues of Magazine littéraire on Foucault. Wade’s memoir is the infamous Death Valley acid trip, and … Continue reading →

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British Academy/Leverhulme grant for archival work on the early Foucault

Posted on March 11, 2019 by stuartelden

I’m very pleased to say that I’ve been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme small grant for a project entitled ‘The Early Foucault: Retracing Intellectual History through Archival Sources’. As regular readers of the blog will know, I’ve been working on the first … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem, transmission d’une pensée : des archives aux Œuvres complètes – CAPHÉS, Paris, 14 March 2019

Posted on March 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Georges Canguilhem, transmission d’une pensée : des archives aux Œuvres complètes – CAPHÉS, Paris, 14 March 2019 Jeudi 14 mars 2019 — École normale supérieure, 29, rue d’Ulm, salle 236 (2e étage), 75005 Paris — 17h à 19h 30 Intervenants : Jean-François Braunstein, Camille Limoges, … Continue reading →

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LSE Festival 2019: The Haunting of Neo-liberalism (Audio) with Robert Eaglestone, Simon Glendinning, Maja Zehfuss and Danielle Sands

Posted on March 5, 2019 by stuartelden

LSE Festival 2019: The Haunting of Neo-liberalism (Audio) with Robert Eaglestone, Simon Glendinning, Maja Zehfuss and Danielle Sands Speaker(s): Professor Robert Eaglestone, Professor Simon Glendinning, Professor Maja Zehfuss | Marx famously wrote of the spectre of communism haunting Europe in … Continue reading →

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Books received – Macherey, Mezzadra & Neilson, Zevnik, Gotman, Owens and Almqvist, Sartre

Posted on March 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production; Tim Smith-Lang, Michel Foucault’s What is an Author?; Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson, The Politics of Operation: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism; Andreja Zevnik, Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics; Kelina Gotman, Essays on Theatre and Change; Owens … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Althusser, Macey, Derrida, Edkins and Zehfuss

Posted on February 26, 2019 by stuartelden

Three books for the Foucault work; the new edition of David Macey’s The Lives of Michel Foucault, with an afterword by me, and the third edition of Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss, Global Politics. The last has a chapter from me … Continue reading →

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Books received – Althusser, Koyré and Lemke

Posted on February 26, 2019 by stuartelden

Copies of some older Althusser and Koyré books, along with the more recently published Que Faire? and the English translation of Thomas Lemke, Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason.

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Stuart Elden, Canguilhem – Polity Key Contemporary Thinkers series, now published

Posted on February 25, 2019 by stuartelden

My study of George Canguilhem for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series is now released in the UK in both hardback and paperback. It should be available in North America and worldwide over the next couple of months. [Update April 23 … Continue reading →

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Books received – Yusoff, Foucault, Koyré, Althusser, Kantorowicz

Posted on February 19, 2019 by stuartelden

Some books that arrived while I was away – Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None; a copy of Foucault’s Maladie mental et psychologie; Alexandre Koyré’s Newtonian Studies and From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe; the latest issue of Theory, Culture and Society; … Continue reading →

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“Shakespearean Landscapes”, Fourth Denis Cosgrove Lecture in the GeoHumanities, British Academy, 23 May 2019

Posted on February 18, 2019 by stuartelden

I am delighted to have been invited to give the fourth Denis Cosgrove Lecture in the GeoHumanities. The lecture is organised by the Royal Holloway Centre for the GeoHumanities, and will take place at the British Academy in London, on 23 May … Continue reading →

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