Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Foucault also struggled to get his students to do the reading…

Posted on June 23, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve previously shared one of Lacan’s comments from his seminar. Here’s Foucault on the same theme: Has everyone read these texts? Yes? No? Nobody? Well, I will have to punish you, that’s for sure! I’m not going to tell you … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 8: two days in the Carolina Rediviva library, Uppsala

Posted on June 23, 2017 by stuartelden

My ongoing research into Foucault’s research and the writing of his History of Madness has taken me to Uppsala, where Foucault worked between 1955 and 1958. This was just a very brief reconnaissance trip – made possible as a side-visit … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gilot, Boehringer and Lorenzini, Debrix, Chimisso, Merleau-Ponty, Sloterdijk, Stratford, Johnston and Sidaway

Posted on June 8, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books, many in recompense for review work. The Chimisso and Merleau-Ponty are for the Foucault and Canguilhem projects; but also second-hand copies of Françoise Gilot’s biography Life with Picasso, and Boehringer and Lorenzini’s collection on … Continue reading →

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Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s book Foucault in Iran

Posted on June 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for this news: Jadaliyya recently published a six-part symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s book Foucault in Iran. Here is part 1 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26386/foucault-and-iran Here is part 2 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26387/rescuing-the-revolution-from-its-outcome Here is part 3 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26394/foucault_against-the-ideology-of-enlightenment Here is part 4 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26413/foucault%E2%80%99s-folly_iran-political-spirituality-and-c … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 7: Canguilhem, Barraqué, von Weizsäcker, and a short trip to the Bibliothèque Nationale

Posted on June 2, 2017 by stuartelden

My focus for the last several weeks has been the work on Canguilhem, although as I’ve previously noted, I see these two projects as supporting each other. There have been lots of moments when I’ve thought ‘I know that because … Continue reading →

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“The early Foucault and the politics of European intellectual history” – Amsterdam, 31 May 2017

Posted on May 30, 2017 by stuartelden

Tomorrow in Amsterdam I’m giving a lecture on my research on the early Foucault: Public Lecture: Prof. Stuart Elden (University of Warwick), “The early Foucault and the politics of European intellectual history” Time: Wednesday 31 May, 17.00-19.00, UvA University Library, … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth course now scheduled for June/July 2017

Posted on May 22, 2017 by stuartelden

The long delayed translation of Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth course is now scheduled for June/July 2017. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the update. The price has also come down to something comparable to previous volumes in the series. This is the … Continue reading →

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Farge and Foucault, Disorderly Families reviewed in the TLS (and discussed in podcast)

Posted on May 19, 2017 by stuartelden

Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, Disorderly Families: Infamous letters from the Bastille archives (edited by Nancy Luxon, translated by Thomas Scott-Railton) reviewed in the TLS: ‘Would you mind imprisoning my wife?‘ by Biancamaria Fontana. Update: it is also discussed in this TLS … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Oeuvres I and II reviewed in the TLS by Duncan Kelly

Posted on May 18, 2017 by stuartelden

Foucault, Oeuvres I and II reviewed in the TLS by Duncan Kelly In 1970, after various appointments in France, Germany, Poland, Sweden and Tunisia, the French philosopher and epistemologist Michel Foucault took a Chair at the Collège de France in … Continue reading →

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The Canguilhem book project – Oeuvres complètes, initial work, aims and translation

Posted on May 15, 2017 by stuartelden

I don’t plan to write detailed posts on the work I’m doing on Georges Canguilhem for the book for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series, unlike the ones which I’ve been writing on the work on Foucault. (More background on this … Continue reading →

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