Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Boulainviller/Boulainvilliers

Posted on September 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton uses my last post to say something about his own work on Boulainviller/Boulainvilliers (the spelling is disputed) here. As I said in that last post, I’ve not read much of him so far, but he looks interesting. For … Continue reading →

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Territory book progress

Posted on September 23, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been making slow but steady progress on chapter nine of my territory book. A lot of this has been checking minor details in libraries, including original language sources such as the Latin for a few quotes from Newton’s Principia … Continue reading →

Posted in Andreas Knichen, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri de Boulainviller, Isaac Newton, James Harrington, Jean Bodin, Johannes Althusius, Johannes Hertius, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault, Philipp Melanchthon, Samuel Pufendorf, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments

Foucault Studies issue 9 published

Posted on September 17, 2010 by stuartelden

New issue of the journal here

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Foucault, The Courage of Truth

Posted on September 12, 2010 by stuartelden

Although I’d read the French lectures, and probably could have written the endorsement for the English translation anyway, I did ask for the ms. and have now finished reading it. It’s a very good translation – again by Graham Burchell. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gottfried Leibniz, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk | 4 Comments

Kritike new issue

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

You can find the new issue of Kritike here. There’s the Paul Ennis review of Braver’s book on the late Heidegger, previously mentioned here; a range of pieces including an essay on Heidegger; an article and subsequent exchange on Foucault and … Continue reading →

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Foucault News

Posted on September 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has moved the Foucault News blog to a separate site – here.

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Foucault news

Posted on September 1, 2010 by stuartelden

For those people looking for a regular Foucault fix, you can now find it at Clare O’Farrell’s Refracted Input. As Jeremy says: Specifically the news page is here. Clare is well known in the Foucault community and the author of … Continue reading →

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Foucault, The Courage of Truth

Posted on August 26, 2010 by stuartelden

In the post this morning, the typescript of Foucault’s final lecture course in English translation. This is The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II. It comes from the 1983-84 academic year, but all the lectures were … Continue reading →

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The End of Foucault blog?

Posted on August 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Over at Foucault blog, Jeremy discusses how he is putting it on hiatus. This is partly because of the work involved and partly because his interests are broader than simply Foucault (see the new Open Geography blog). I owe Jeremy … Continue reading →

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Hardt on Foucault

Posted on August 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Michael Hardt reviews Foucault’s 82-83 and 83-84 lecture courses – Le gouvernement de soi et des autres and Le courage de la vérité – in the latest New Left Review. Find it here – subscribers only. Most of the first half of the review … Continue reading →

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