Category Archives: Michel Foucault

The Early Foucault update 10: translations of Binswanger, von Weizsäcker and by ‘G-J Verdeaux’

Posted on August 25, 2017 by stuartelden

After a too-short holiday, I’ve been back working on the Foucault book. Although I’d drafted some of this material before, my focus has been on the translations of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker. With Binswanger’s ‘Dream and Existence’, Foucault was not … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France – audio re-recording

Posted on August 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Leçon inaugurale de Michel Foucault – L’ordre du discours Quelle est cette volonté de vérité dans nos discours, qui a traversé tant de siècles de notre histoire ? demande Michel Foucault dans sa leçon inaugurale. Qu’est ce qui est en … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eribon, von Weizsäcker, Althusser, Žižek, Wyrsch, Foucault, Funnell & Dodds, Bier

Posted on August 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Some recently received books – Eribon, von Weizsäcker, Wyrsch, Bochner & Halpern, and The Cambridge Companion for the research on the early Foucault, plus Althusser, Žižek and Lisa Funnell & Klaus Dodds’s Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond in recompense for … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 9: from Shakespeare back to Foucault and Canguilhem

Posted on August 9, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve spent most of the first half of the summer revising my Shakespeare manuscript, which is now resubmitted. But I have been doing a little work on the early Foucault in the meantime, and on Canguilhem. With the latter, much … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sforzini, Foucault, Doel

Posted on August 7, 2017 by stuartelden

The latest volume of the Arden Shakespeare, Arianna Sforzini’s Les Scènes de la Vérité: Michel Foucault et le Théâtre, the issue of NRF with a previously unpublished piece by Foucault, and Marcus Doel’s Geographies of Violence. Doel’s book is the … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power forthcoming in Chinese translation

Posted on August 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Both Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power are now forthcoming in Chinese translation with Beijing Publishing Group. Both books are also forthcoming in Korean with Nanjing Publishing House.

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Foucault: The Birth of Power reviewed at LSE Review of Books

Posted on August 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Foucault: The Birth of Power is reviewed at LSE Review of Books by Syamala Roberts. In Foucault: The Birth of Power, Stuart Elden outlines how the theorisation of power was the essential tool developed within Foucault’s work and political activities … Continue reading →

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Remigiusz Ryziński discusses Foucault’s time in Poland

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Remigiusz Ryziński discusses his book Foucault w Warszawie, an account of the short period Foucault spent in Poland in the late 1950s – between his time in Uppsala and Warsaw. While the interview is in Polish, machine translation seems to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Freud, Carceral Notebooks 12, Derrida, Latour, Eribon

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Two volumes of the Penguin Freud library, issue 12 of the Carceral Notebooks; the most recently published Derrida seminar, Théorie et pratique; Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia and a second-hand copy of Didier Eribon’s Michel Foucault et ses contemporains. The Latour was … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, ‘Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours’ edited by Martin Rueff in NRF (and a question)

Posted on July 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Another piece of Foucault from the archive was published last year – Michel Foucault, ‘Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours‘ edited by Martin Rueff in NRF. Apparently these notes date from the drafting of The Archaeology of Knowledge. I’ve ordered a copy … Continue reading →

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