Category Archives: People

History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online via the Wayback Machine

Posted on September 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Quite a while ago I posted about History of the Present, the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley. It used to be online via Rabinow’s Anthropos Lab. At … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Posted on September 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernst Cassirer, Marcel Mauss, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Walter Benjamin | 2 Comments

Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People – Duke University Press, September 2022 (introduction open access)

Posted on September 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People – Duke University Press, September 2022 I’m late in noticing this book, published last year. The Introduction is available open access here. In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore … Continue reading →

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Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020; and New Books discussion

Posted on September 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020 There is a New Books discussion between the author, David Norman Smith, Peter Audis and Sean Sayers, moderated by Morteza Hajizadeh here. An … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “From the Archive to the Edited Translation: Lefebvre, Foucault, Dumézil”, audio recording from May 2023 workshop

Posted on September 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Technical problems meant that there was unfortunately not a full recording of the Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, held at Senate House, London on 19 May 2023. I did however record my own talk on my … Continue reading →

Posted in Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment

Bernard E. Harcourt, Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory – Columbia University Press, May 2023

Posted on September 11, 2023 by stuartelden

Bernard E. Harcourt, Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory – Columbia University Press, May 2023 Update there is a review at NDPR by Albert W. Dzur. Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems … Continue reading →

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Hannah Richter, The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann – SUNY Press, October 2023

Posted on September 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Hannah Richter, The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann – SUNY Press, October 2023 Just an expensive hardback at the moment… The Politics of Orientation provides the first substantial exploration of a surprising theoretical kinship and its rich political implications, between … Continue reading →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Marie-Eve Morin, Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology – Edinburgh University Press, July 2023 (paperback)

Posted on September 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Marie-Eve Morin, Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology – Edinburgh University Press, July 2022 (hardback and e-book); July 2023 (paperback)

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 13: work on Benveniste, Saussure and in UK archives, a seminar on the research, and a brief health update

Posted on August 31, 2023 by stuartelden

In an earlier post here I briefly mentioned the medical issues that put me in hospital for three weeks in July. The operation was a success and I am making a good, though slow, recovery. I have been at home for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Dumézil, Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Foucault books – updated page with links to reviews, resources and talks

Posted on August 29, 2023 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on this blog about my series of Foucault books, The page has book descriptions, links to reviews, the updates I wrote while researching and writing the books and other related materials. Some translations, scans, textual analysis … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault | 1 Comment