Category Archives: Michel Foucault

The stuff of academic life

Posted on October 27, 2010 by stuartelden

What not to do on your sabbatical – and then how to get it together – here. This cartoon (via Ben on FB) on getting a PhD in the humanities is amusing and disturbing in just about equal measure. Interesting … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Territory, etc.

Posted on October 25, 2010 by stuartelden

Over at Philosophy in a Time of Error, Peter Gratton responds to my update on Chapter One from a couple of days ago. Peter mentions the piece I published on Foucault’s ‘Society Must Be Defended’ back in 2002. That piece, … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, My Publications, The Birth of Territory | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Henri de Boulainviller, Jacques Derrida, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton | Leave a comment

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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