Category Archives: People

Foucault’s Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality

Posted on November 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Some years ago, Philippe Chevallier alerted me to the importance of the 1977 German translation of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as Sexualität und Wahrheit: Der Wille zum Wissen. This text included a brief preface by Foucault … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 38 published, including a theme section on Foucault and Nietzsche, and a ‘Buffalo dossier’ (all open access)

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 38 is now published There are essays by Johanna Oksala and Philipp Kender, and a special section on Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche, with pieces by Orazio Irrera, Federico Testa, Emmanuel Salanskis, Daniele Lorenzini and Frédéric Porcher. This issue … Continue reading →

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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History – University of Chicago Press, April 2026

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History – University of Chicago Press, April 2026 A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities—and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 30 – archive work in Paris, Bern and Cambridge, MA, and Benveniste’s library

Posted on November 12, 2025 by stuartelden

The formal end of the Leverhulme major research fellowship for the Indo-European thought project was at the end of September, but I have a no-cost extension until the end of January. This is invaluable, and is effectively to extend the grant for … Continue reading →

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Claude Raffestin (1936–2025) – Juliet Fall tribute, open access articles, and other pieces in English

Posted on November 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The Swiss-French geographer Claude Raffestin died earlier this year. Juliet Fall has a tribute to him here, and Sage have made some articles by or about him available open access until the end of 2025. These articles are mainly from … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Duby, Stratford, Hage, Ramnoux

Posted on November 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The newly published transcription of Foucault’s 1972 course in Buffalo, two autobiographical accounts by Georges Duby, Elaine Stratford’s remarkable book The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair, Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, and the two volumes of … Continue reading →

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Joe Gerlach, Spinoza’s Geographical Ethics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on November 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Joe Gerlach, Spinoza’s Geographical Ethics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 (print and open access)

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Vladimir Nabokov’s original and unpublished translation of The Discourse of Igor’s Campaign; and Roman Jakobson’s enduring wish to complete his English edition

Posted on November 9, 2025 by stuartelden

In two previous pieces in the ‘Sunday Histories’ series, I have discussed the planned but unrealised collaboration between Vladimir Nabokov and Roman Jakobson on an edition and translation of “The Song of Igor”, an old Russian poem of the 12th century. Jakobson had … Continue reading →

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Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 and discussions

Posted on November 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 A translation of Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023 I’ve shared the book before, … Continue reading →

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Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being – Duke University Press, October 2025

Posted on November 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being – Duke University Press, October 2025 The Introduction is open access at this link In Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional … Continue reading →

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