Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault’s Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality

Posted on November 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Some years ago, Philippe Chevallier alerted me to the importance of the 1977 German translation of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as Sexualität und Wahrheit: Der Wille zum Wissen. This text included a brief preface by Foucault … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 38 published, including a theme section on Foucault and Nietzsche, and a ‘Buffalo dossier’ (all open access)

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 38 is now published There are essays by Johanna Oksala and Philipp Kender, and a special section on Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche, with pieces by Orazio Irrera, Federico Testa, Emmanuel Salanskis, Daniele Lorenzini and Frédéric Porcher. This issue … Continue reading →

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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History – University of Chicago Press, April 2026

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History – University of Chicago Press, April 2026 A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities—and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 30 – archive work in Paris, Bern and Cambridge, MA, and Benveniste’s library

Posted on November 12, 2025 by stuartelden

The formal end of the Leverhulme major research fellowship for the Indo-European thought project was at the end of September, but I have a no-cost extension until the end of January. This is invaluable, and is effectively to extend the grant for … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Duby, Stratford, Hage, Ramnoux

Posted on November 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The newly published transcription of Foucault’s 1972 course in Buffalo, two autobiographical accounts by Georges Duby, Elaine Stratford’s remarkable book The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair, Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, and the two volumes of … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Hermaphrodites – from Herculine Barbin to a planned volume of the History of Sexuality and the recently published manuscript

Posted on November 2, 2025 by stuartelden

In May 1978, Foucault edited the memoir of a “hermaphrodite”, Herculine Barbin, for publication. In the dossier of documents appended to that text he says that “the question of strange destinies like these and which posed such problems for medicine … Continue reading →

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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift – reposted for the 90th anniversary of Said’s birth

Posted on November 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Edward Said was born 90 years ago today – one day after David Harvey. Here’s a piece on Said I wrote earlier this year about his early career – The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift Given all his … Continue reading →

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Jean-François Suratteau, Les métamorphoses de l’art de gouverner Michel Foucault au Collège de France – Vrin, September 2025, and interview

Posted on October 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Jean-François Suratteau, Les métamorphoses de l’art de gouverner Michel Foucault au Collège de France – Vrin, September 2025 Entretien avec Jean-François Suratteau. Thanks to Foucault News for the links. Michel Foucault est un auteur polymorphe, qui a su toucher, par ses … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gusdorf, Foucault, Wolff, Ellenberger, Ramnoux, Dosse, Mabon

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Books bought new or second-hand – Georges Gusdorf, Le crépuscule des illusions; Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites; Étienne Wolff, Les Changements de sexe; François Ellenberger, Histoire de la géologie 1; Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, … Continue reading →

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Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025)

Posted on October 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025) – via Foucault News

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