Category Archives: Michel Foucault

David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault – to be reissued by Verso in 2019, with Afterword by Stuart Elden

Posted on April 9, 2018 by stuartelden

David Macey’s biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault will appear in a reissued edition with Verso in January 2019, with an afterword by me. Update: now published. Verso site. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had … Continue reading →

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Books received – Delaporte, Lecourt, Ginestier, Eribon, Lichnerowicz, Perroux and Gadoffre

Posted on March 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books for the Canguilhem and Foucault work

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Review essay of Foucault, Les Aveux de la chair in Theory, Culture and Society (open access)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by stuartelden

My review essay of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Les aveux de la chair is now available in Theory, Culture and Society. The essay will appear in the annual review of the journal later this year, but this version is … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology

Posted on March 11, 2018 by stuartelden

My 2017 book Foucault: The Birth of Power is generously reviewed by Audrey Borowski in Politics, Religion & Ideology (requires subscription). Links to other reviews and discussions of this book, and its companion Foucault’s Last Decade are archived here.  

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Books received – Dumézil, Canguilhem, Nail, Irrera & Vaccaro, Villacañas & Castro, Foucault, Kotowicz, Braunstein et al, Bleiker

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – Georges Dumézil, Entretiens avec Didier Eribon; Georges Canguilhem, Études d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences; Thomas Nail, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion; Orazio Irrera & Salvo Vaccaro, La pensée politique de Foucault, … Continue reading →

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Foucault in Hamburg – article in German by Rainer Nicolaysen (open access)

Posted on March 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Not much is known about Foucault’s time in Hamburg in 1959-60, except that he was working on his translation of Kant’s Anthropology at this time. The preface to History of Madness was also written there. A new piece in German … Continue reading →

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Christian Laval, Bourdieu, Foucault et la question néolibérale – now published

Posted on March 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Christian Laval, Bourdieu, Foucault et la question néolibérale – forthcoming now out with La Découverte Deux des intellectuels français parmi les plus importants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, Michel Foucault et Pierre Bourdieu, ont choisi de caractériser – le … Continue reading →

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Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire – forthcoming with University of Chicago Press

Posted on February 17, 2018 by stuartelden

Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject – forthcoming with University of Chicago Press in May 2018. Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, is best described as a technique of government directed … Continue reading →

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Marnia Lazreg, Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

Posted on February 15, 2018 by stuartelden

Marnia Lazreg, Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan – now out with Berghahn. Looks fascinating, and the use of archives and interviews should make this revealing. The Introduction is available online and has some interesting, though not … Continue reading →

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Discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair in Quartz (in English, open access)

Posted on February 15, 2018 by stuartelden

Olivia Goldhill, “Foucault has a new book out, and it’s the key to understanding his entire work on sexuality“, Quartz, 14 February 2018 Another piece on Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair, including some quotes from me. I’ve added this to … Continue reading →

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