Category Archives: People

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 →

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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 →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Stuart Elden, ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’, Modern French Research Seminar, University of Cambridge (online), 31 January 2022

Posted on January 20, 2022 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking about my ongoing Foucault work, and particularly the book on the 1960s, in an online seminar for the University of Cambridge on 31 January 2022 at 5-6.30pm. The public registration link for the seminar is here.

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Jean Hyppolite, Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel – Classiques Garnier, January 2022

Posted on January 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Jean Hyppolite, Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel – Classiques Garnier, January 2022, edited by Giuseppe Bianco Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel, la thèse principale de Jean Hyppolite, publiée pour la première fois … Continue reading →

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Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel – ENS 2022 

Posted on January 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel – ENS 2022 Contre une lecture simpliste de l’anti-hégélianisme que Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault ont défendu dans les années 1960, l’ouvrage propose un parcours dans les textes … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 13: drafting the chapters on The Archaeology of Knowledge and sexuality; moving to work on madness and medicine

Posted on January 7, 2022 by stuartelden

My optimistic idea of having a complete, even if very rough, draft of The Archaeology of Foucault before Christmas didn’t happen. I’d liked the idea of having a complete text, which I could then print and leave for a while … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments