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Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault – Polity, June 2021 now published

Posted on June 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, The Early Foucault – Polity, June 2021 The book is now published, in both hardback and paperback, and is in bookstores, though getting copies outside of the UK might still take a while. It’s available as an e-book … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 6: the state of the manuscript, limited work in libraries, and editing work on Lefebvre and Dumézil

Posted on June 1, 2021 by stuartelden

The big news for my Foucault work is the publication of The Early Foucault later this week. There is a piece on the Polity blog about the book here. But I’ve also been slowly working on the last of this … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas & Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, World – Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Posted on May 27, 2021 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas & Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, World – Edinburgh University Press, 2021 The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with White on ABC … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eliade, Waltham-Smith, Marx-Scouras, Foucault, Olsen, Olander & Kristiansen

Posted on May 25, 2021 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand, but also the long-awaited Foucault, Binswanger et l’analyse existentielle, edited by Elisabetta Basso, and the new book by Warwick colleague Naomi Waltham-Smith, Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life.

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Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present – Columbia University Press, April 2021

Posted on May 25, 2021 by stuartelden

Rey Chow, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present – Columbia University Press, April 2021 Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What … Continue reading →

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Centre Michel Foucault statement on Guy Sorman’s accusations against Michel Foucault and bibliography of Foucault in Tunisia

Posted on May 24, 2021 by stuartelden

The Centre Michel Foucault have put out a statement on Guy Sorman’s accusations against Michel Foucault which is available in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Foucault News has a very useful bibliography of Foucault in Tunisia for those who want to … Continue reading →

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Martin Jay, Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History – Penn Press, November 2021

Posted on May 17, 2021 by stuartelden

Martin Jay, Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History – Penn Press, November 2021 There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of … Continue reading →

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Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore – video discussion of Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference

Posted on May 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore – a really interesting video discussion of Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke University Press, 2021). Thanks to dmf for this link. In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss … Continue reading →

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Alisa Zhulina, ‘The Tyrant and the Martyr: Recent Research on Sovereignty and Theater’ – review essay in Journal of the History of Ideas (including Shakespearean Territories)

Posted on May 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Alisa Zhulina, ‘The Tyrant and the Martyr: Recent Research on Sovereignty and Theater‘ – review essay in Journal of the History of Ideas (requires subscription). An interesting review essay, which includes discussion of my book Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago … Continue reading →

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Dante Fedele, The Medieval Foundations of International Law: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327–1400), Doctrine and Practice of the Ius Gentium – Brill 2021

Posted on May 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Dante Fedele, The Medieval Foundations of International Law: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327–1400), Doctrine and Practice of the Ius Gentium – Brill 2021 This looks a really interesting study of Baldus, who was significant in the argument I make in The Birth … Continue reading →

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