Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 15: A first trip to the Paris archives since the spring and more archive work in the UK

Posted on November 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m now back at work full time, though very grateful to be free of teaching and administrative duties, and I am feeling much better and more like myself. I was in Paris for two weeks this month, which was the … Continue reading →

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Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt – Éditions Mimesis, November 2023

Posted on November 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt – Éditions Mimesis, November 2023 Cet essai est consacré aux analyses de Michel Foucault sur la guerre, un sujet qui n’a pas toujours reçu l’attention qu’il mérite et qui joue … Continue reading →

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Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault in English and German – MHRA, Autumn 2024

Posted on November 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault in English and German – MHRA, Autumn 2024 Hardback initially, but paperback and e-book forthcoming The works of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) form a multilingual network of ideas. It is for this … Continue reading →

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A new translation and critical edition of Michel Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic – edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Stuart Elden, translated by Marie Satya McDonough – beginning a new project

Posted on November 9, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m very happy to be working with Tony Bruce at Routledge, Stefanos Geroulanos (as co-editor) and Marie Satya McDonough (as translator) on a new translation and critical edition of Michel Foucault’s classic book Birth of the Clinic. This will be a … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures, 50 years on – conference in Buenos Aires, 13-17 November 2023

Posted on November 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Buenos Aires conference next week on Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures, 50 years on. Apologies for not having a link to a conference website – happy to update if anyone knows of one. [Update: Foucault News has a pdf … Continue reading →

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity – University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024

Posted on October 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity – University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024 Philosopher Michel Foucault’s cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023 This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their … Continue reading →

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Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023

Posted on October 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar, 2023: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023 A text I edited from the Berkeley archive, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon“, which originally … Continue reading →

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online via the Wayback Machine

Posted on September 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Quite a while ago I posted about History of the Present, the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley. It used to be online via Rabinow’s Anthropos Lab. At … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Posted on September 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading →

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