Category Archives: People

Stjuart Elden: Fuko: Rođenje moći – Serbian translation of Foucault: The Birth of Power by Tomislav Kargačin, Mediterran, 2019

Posted on February 12, 2022 by stuartelden

Stjuart Elden: Fuko: Rođenje moći – Serbian translation of Foucault: The Birth of Power by Tomislav Kargačin, Mediterran, 2019 This came out a while ago, but I’ve only just now received copies. Many thanks to Tomislav Kargačin for the work on the … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 14: working on madness and medicine and a complete draft

Posted on February 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Although I’ve been teaching this term, I have also been working hard on the manuscript of The Archaeology of Foucault, in particular completing one chapter for which I had some draft material before. It’s the first chapter of the book, … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault – discussed at the New Books in Critical Theory podcast with Dave O’Brien

Posted on February 11, 2022 by stuartelden

The Early Foucault is discussed at the New Books in Critical Theory podcast with Dave O’Brien What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Polity Press, 2021), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at … Continue reading →

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Suzanne Gossett, Shakespeare and Textual Theory – Arden/Bloomsbury, February 2022

Posted on February 10, 2022 by stuartelden

Suzanne Gossett, Shakespeare and Textual Theory – Arden/Bloomsbury, February 2022 There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been … Continue reading →

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Books received – Macherey, Kurlander, Vuillerod, Kristeva, Vernant, Benveniste, Trubetzkoy, Dumézil

Posted on February 8, 2022 by stuartelden

A mix of second-hand books, mostly for the new project on Indo-European thought in France, along with a copy of Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel, and another volume of the Théorie series, Pierre Macherey, … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Dumézil, Julia Kristeva, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero – list of published volumes and English translations

Posted on February 3, 2022 by stuartelden

In the 1960s and 1970s Louis Althusser edited a series at the radical publisher François Maspero. Many of the books published were by his former students including Pierre Macherey, Étienne Balibar, Alain Badiou, Emmanuel Terray and others. There were some … Continue reading →

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‘Message ou bruit?’ Resituating a short text by Foucault on medicine

Posted on February 2, 2022 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned before how Dits et écrits, which is an excellent collection, can sometimes decontextualise a piece by Foucault, making it hard to see why it was written. Tracking down the original publication of pieces can often be difficult but is … Continue reading →

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Books received – Althusser, Pécheux and Fichant, Badiou, Terray, Balibar, Kristeva, Epstein, Danchev

Posted on January 24, 2022 by stuartelden

Some books by Althusser and his then-students – some of which I talk about here – along with Etienne Balibar’s Violence and Civility, a couple by Julia Kristeva, Charlotte Epstein’s Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in … Continue reading →

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Edward (E.P.) Thompson and Dorothy Thompson website

Posted on January 20, 2022 by stuartelden

Edward (E.P.) Thompson and Dorothy Thompson resources page on the Verso site Edward and Dorothy Thompson were historians and activists. They met in 1945, and worked together on the international youth brigade which helped to build the railway in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Soon afterwards they … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – publications and online archive

Posted on January 20, 2022 by stuartelden

Update June 2025: a revised and expanded version of this post is here. Between 1967 and 1968 Louis Althusser and some of his students delivered a course at the ENS pitched as philosophy for scientists or non-philosophers. Some parts of … Continue reading →

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