Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité – ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Vrin, September 2024

Posted on July 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité – ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Vrin, September 2024 A really important collection of material around the early stages of the History of Sexuality, including insights into volumes not published, and a critical … Continue reading →

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Posted on July 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms underlying … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rose, Sartre, Koyré, Benveniste, Greimas, Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2024 by stuartelden

The reedition of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work; Sartre’s Literary and Philosophical Essays; the Mélanges collections for Alexandre Koyré and Emile Benveniste; Algirdas Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology; and Foucault’s Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France – audio recordings being posted online

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Today is the fortieth anniversary of Foucault’s death. The Collège de France are putting the surviving audio recordings of his lectures online – Le Pouvoir psychiatrique is up now, with others to follow. I’ve previously listed audio and video recordings … Continue reading →

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A detailed comparison of Michel Foucault’s Two Texts on Georges Canguilhem

Posted on June 24, 2024 by stuartelden

In 1978, Foucault contributed an introduction to the English translation of Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological. The French version is included in Dits et écrits as text 219. (No translator is indicated, which suggests the editors had access to the original … Continue reading →

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Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things – Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024 

Posted on June 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things – Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024  I almost missed this, given the subtitle, but Gandal was one … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 20: writing about Dumézil and Benveniste’s archives

Posted on May 31, 2024 by stuartelden

In the previous update on the research for this project, I said I had begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. That has also been the main focus on this last month too, trying … Continue reading →

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CFP: Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles – 18-19 October 2024, Vienna

Posted on May 30, 2024 by stuartelden

CFP: Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles (2024)

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Bibliothèque nationale de France – famous reader cards, including Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes

Posted on May 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Chroniques de la BnF 100 has some of the Bibliothèque Nationale’s famous reader’s cards Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes are online at the link. I previously shared Foucault’s card, with an attempt to decipher what it meant. Here’s … Continue reading →

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