Category Archives: People

Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken, Mill, Rancière, Badiou, Salmon, Sirinelli

Posted on December 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently for the Foucault work, related projects and J.S. Mill for teaching. I’m teaching the history of political thought again this year, and while I have most of the texts we’re using, didn’t have Mill’s Considerations on … Continue reading →

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It was fifty years ago today… Michel Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, 2 December 1970

Posted on December 2, 2020 by stuartelden

On 2 December 1970, Michel Foucault delivered his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. He was 44 years old. My thanks to Marcelo Hoffman for alerting me to this anniversary. Had this not been such a crazy term, it … Continue reading →

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Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy – Bloomsbury, May 2021

Posted on November 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy – Bloomsbury, May 2021 Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan’s work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment.  Beistegui … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures – Columbia University Press, August 2021

Posted on November 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures – Columbia University Press, August 2021 Edited by Claude-Olivier Doron, foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt, translated by Graham Burchell. Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality—the first volume of which was published … Continue reading →

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Rosimeri de Oliveira Dias and Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues (eds.), Ordens do discurso: comentários marginais à aula de Michel Foucault – November 2020

Posted on November 26, 2020 by stuartelden

Rosimeri de Oliveira Dias and Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues (eds.), Ordens do discurso: comentários marginais à aula de Michel Foucault – November 2020 A new Brazilian collection commemorating the 50th anniversary of Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Human, All Too Human I (Winter 1874/75–Winter 1877/78) – Stanford University Press, August 2021

Posted on November 26, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve previously mentioned that the next volume in the Stanford translation of the Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche will be Vol 9 – The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus … Continue reading →

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Four more papers from the ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ special issue of Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on November 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Four more papers from the ‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, which I’m co-editing with Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini, are available online first. These require subscription. Rainer Nicolaysen, Foucault in Hamburg. Notes … Continue reading →

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Henry V: Literary and Historical Territories at War/Territoires d’histoire, territoires littéraires en guerre, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 11 December 2020 (livestream)

Posted on November 23, 2020 by stuartelden

On 11 December I’ll be taking part in an online conference on Shakespeare’s Henry V. Appropriately enough, given its themes and some of the dialogue, the conference will be in both French and English. Henry V: Literary and Historical Territories … Continue reading →

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Achille Mbembe interviewed at Chilperic

Posted on November 20, 2020 by stuartelden

Achille Mbembe interviewed at Chilperic. Talks about his work, but also the process of writing. Where does your writing start?  Most of the time in my head. Sometimes from what I see, what I hear, what I read. It can … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin, Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition, edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng – Stanford University Press, June 2021

Posted on November 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin, Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition, edited by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng – Stanford University Press, June 2021 Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin’s immensely influential essay, “Toward the Critique of Violence,” this critical edition … Continue reading →

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