Category Archives: People

Three Foucault books in new editions from Gallimard – to coincide with his 100th birthday

Posted on August 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Les Aveux de la chair: Histoire de la sexualité IV, ed. Frédéric Gros, Gallimard Tel, September 2026 Les Aveux de la chair, quatrième et dernier volume d’une Histoire de la sexualité, est en réalité le premier auquel Michel Foucault s’était attelé … Continue reading →

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Andres Saenz de Sicilia, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society – Brill, November 2024, paperback Haymarket, November 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Andres Saenz de Sicilia, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society – Brill, November 2024; paperback Haymarket, November 2025 New Books discussion with Elliot Dolan-Evans – thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading →

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The Georges Dumézil-Michel Foucault correspondence – a chronological listing with archival locations

Posted on August 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault had a long friendship with the comparative mythologist and linguist Georges Dumézil. As well as providing invaluable support for Foucault’s career, Dumézil was also important to Foucault intellectually, as Didier Eribon was the first to discuss in detail, … Continue reading →

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Gilles Deleuze, On Spinoza: Courses, November 1980–March 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale and others, University of Minnesota Press, December 2026

Posted on August 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, On Spinoza: Courses, November 1980–March 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale and others, University of Minnesota Press, December 2026 Through newly transcribed and translated lectures, Deleuze explores Spinoza’s philosophy concerning questions of good and evil and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dupuis-Déri, Drouet, Mbembe, Ginzburg, Connor, Lorenzini

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Mostly books I’ve mentioned here before – Francis Dupuis-Déri, Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull; Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance; Achille Mbembe, Brutalism; Carlo Ginzburg, Threads and Traces; … Continue reading →

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Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but now there is a New Books discussion with Nathan Smith

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Two Foucault books reissued by Routledge – History of Madness and Politics, Philosophy, Culture, October 2026

Posted on August 4, 2026 by stuartelden

History of Madness When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l’âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time … Continue reading →

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Colm McAuliffe, Film, In Theory: The BFI Education Department and Film Culture – Bloomsbury, February 2026

Posted on August 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Colm McAuliffe, Film, In Theory: The BFI Education Department and Film Culture – Bloomsbury, February 2026 Film, In Theory offers the first sustained history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain. It balances unpublished archival materials from the BFI … Continue reading →

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Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian – Harvard University Press, August 2026

Posted on August 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian – Harvard University Press, August 2026 Interview about writing the book here. [Update 21 August 2026: New Books discussion with Ryan Tripp – thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading →

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The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’

Posted on August 2, 2026 by stuartelden

A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “If I ever go missing, I want Stuart leading the … Continue reading →

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