Category Archives: People

Richard III or Edward III? A small historical error in Foucault’s History of Madness – and his attempt to correct it

Posted on April 24, 2025 by stuartelden

There is a small historical error in Foucault’s History of Madness, which endures through the different French versions with the exception of Oeuvres, but which is corrected in one of the English versions. Yes, there are other errors, but I’m focused on … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Binswanger and Existential Analysis, ed. Elisabetta Basso, trans. Marie Satya McDonough – Columbia University Press, July 2025

Posted on April 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Binswanger and Existential Analysis, ed. Elisabetta Basso, trans. Marie Satya McDonough – Columbia University Press, July 2025, with foreword by Bernard Harcourt Really good to see the translation of this important volume scheduled. In the early 1950s, the … Continue reading →

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Michael Lazarus, Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx – Stanford University Press, June 2025

Posted on April 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Lazarus, Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx – Stanford University Press, June 2025 Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face … Continue reading →

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Foucault at Buffalo in 1970 and 1972: The Desire for Knowledge; The Criminal in Literature; and The History of Truth

Posted on April 20, 2025 by stuartelden

I have discussed Foucault’s two visits to Buffalo before. First, most briefly, in Foucault: The Birth of Power (2017). In that book, which is on the first half of the 1970s, I simply indicated that Foucault gave some lectures in Buffalo (pp. … Continue reading →

Posted in Foucault: The Birth of Power, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sunday Histories, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | 15 Comments

Fifteen ‘Sunday Histories’ on Progressive Geographies

Posted on April 17, 2025 by stuartelden

There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, David Farrell Krell, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Gillian Rose, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Umberto Eco | Leave a comment

Elisabeth Raucq, animal names and approaches to Indo-European vocabulary

Posted on April 13, 2025 by stuartelden

In the preface to the second edition of his Mitra-Varuna, Georges Dumézil mentions some of the people who attended the lecture course which became the book. Delivered at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1938-39, this was the last year … Continue reading →

Posted in Antoine Meillet, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Roger Caillois, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Who translated Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things?

Posted on April 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Who translated Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things? The original English edition, published by Pantheon in 1970 (and Tavistock in the UK) has the title The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, and under the author name says “A … Continue reading →

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Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 and review at NDPR

Posted on April 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 review at NDPR by Sebastian Gardner A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s … Continue reading →

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G. Anthony Bruno, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant – Oxford University Press, March 2025

Posted on April 3, 2025 by stuartelden

G. Anthony Bruno, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant – Oxford University Press, March 2025 Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant is the first history of the concept of facticity. G. Anthony Bruno argues that this concept’s … Continue reading →

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‘Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Speculative Philosophy: A Special Edition on the Thought of Gillian Rose’ – Thesis Eleven

Posted on April 2, 2025 by stuartelden

‘Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Speculative Philosophy: A Special Edition on the Thought of Gillian Rose‘ – Thesis Eleven, eds. Michael Lazarus and Daniel Andrés López Several papers, including a previously unpublished piece by Rose on Marx, are open access

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