Category Archives: People

The Early Foucault update 2 – Uppsala, Binswanger, Lacan and Bedlam

Posted on January 11, 2017 by stuartelden

While I did take a proper break over Christmas and the New Year, I have been continuing work on the very early Foucault. One of the things I’ve done is some initial research on the time he spent in Uppsala. … Continue reading →

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Two questions about Georges Canguilhem – both answered in the negative

Posted on January 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Earlier this week I posted two questions about Georges Canguilhem – biography and archives Two questions about Georges Canguilhem – does a biography exist in English or French? And are all his papers archived at CAPHÉS at the ENS? That looks quite extensive, but what … Continue reading →

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Two questions about Georges Canguilhem – biography and archives

Posted on January 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Two questions about Georges Canguilhem – does a biography exist in English or French? And are all his papers archived at CAPHÉS at the ENS? That looks quite extensive, but what I am looking for isn’t listed, so I wondered if there might, possibly, … Continue reading →

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Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life reviewed in New York Times

Posted on January 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life, by Robert E Lerner, is reviewed in The New York Times by George Prochnik. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for the link.

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Foucault Studies 22 – ‘Foucault and Rome’, interview with me, and review of Foucault’s Last Decade

Posted on January 6, 2017 by stuartelden

The new issue of Foucault Studies is now out – the bulk is a theme section on ‘Foucault and Roman Antiquity: Foucault and Rome’, edited by Richard Alston and Shreyaa Bhatt. The issue also includes separate articles, a translation of Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan and Binswanger

Posted on January 6, 2017 by stuartelden

The French originals of Lacan’s first two published seminars, and some French and English translations of Binswanger’s work. More preparatory reading for the project on the early Foucault.

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William E. Connolly, Facing the Planetary – forthcoming and open access preview

Posted on January 6, 2017 by stuartelden

William E. Connolly, Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming is forthcoming from Duke University Press shortly. There is an open access preview available here. In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the … Continue reading →

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‘Foucault in Ireland’ – 24 March 2017, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

Posted on January 5, 2017 by stuartelden

On 23 March I’ll be visiting National University of Ireland Maynooth to give a seminar. The following day I’ll be one of the participants in a symposium at the Royal Irish Academy – ‘Foucault and Ireland’. This one-day symposium reviews … Continue reading →

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Ludwig Binswanger – a bibliography of major German works and available French or English translations

Posted on January 5, 2017 by stuartelden

As part of my work on the early Foucault, I’ve been doing some work on Ludwig Binswanger, including finding several of his works. For my own purposes I compiled a bibliography of his major German works, and all the work … Continue reading →

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One or Two King Lears? – review at Berfrois (open access)

Posted on January 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. I have a long review of Brian Vickers’s The One King Lear, at the Berfrois website. It was one of … Continue reading →

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