Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Writing a book on Georges Canguilhem for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series

Posted on April 28, 2017 by stuartelden

As part of my research on the very early Foucault, I’ve been looking at the work of some of his teachers and other inspirations. One of those figures was Georges Canguilhem, who ended up being the rapporteur for Foucault’s doctoral … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 9 Comments

NDPR reviews – Foucault/Derrida, Heidegger on Nietzsche and Nail’s Theory of the Border

Posted on April 25, 2017 by stuartelden

Three interesting reviews at NDPR Olivia Custer, Penelope Deutscher, and Samir Haddad (eds.), Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics by Christopher Penfield – here Thomas Nail, Theory of the Border by Avery Kolers – here Martin Heidegger, … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

The Early Foucault update 6: Foucault’s teachers, and returning to his work on Binswanger

Posted on April 13, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve largely been able to continue the focus of the last update, with a series of fairly uninterrupted days’ research and writing. Aside from continuing work on Lacan, I’ve also been looking at the people who taught Foucault. Merleau-Ponty is … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Ludwig Binswanger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The Early Foucault and the Politics of European Intellectual History – Amsterdam lecture, 31 May 2017

Posted on April 12, 2017 by stuartelden

While visiting ACCESS Europe in Amsterdam, I’ll be giving this public lecture: “The Early Foucault and the Politics of European Intellectual History“, 31st May, 5pm This lecture by ACCESS EUROPE Visiting Scholar Stuart Elden reports on a project tracing the intellectual … Continue reading →

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Interview with Mark Kelly on Foucault and Biopolitical Imperialism

Posted on April 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Fully Automated Episode 2: Biopolitical Imperialism with Mark G.E. Kelly Our guest this week is Mark G. E. Kelly, an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Politics, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The textual issues around Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’

Posted on April 11, 2017 by stuartelden

While it is somewhat outside the time period I am currently working on, Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’ lecture is interesting because it is one of the few instances for which there is a textual record of an engagement between … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

The Early Foucault update 5: Canguilhem, Merleau-Ponty, Politzer, Lacan…

Posted on April 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Until about a week ago I was focusing on the terrain work, for the London Review of International Law lecture, the conference in Oslo, and the lecture in Maynooth. But in and around other things I was also doing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Georges Canguilhem, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

On the appearance of books in a series

Posted on April 1, 2017 by stuartelden

This post probably speaks to a collector’s instinct in me, or something else, but I really dislike the way that publishers mess with the design of books in a series. It is especially annoying when the books are released in sequence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Freud’s papers on technique in English – a summary of the suggestions

Posted on April 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Earlier this week I asked this question: As part of my work on the early Foucault, I’m working through Lacan’s early seminars. I want to read the texts of Freud which Lacan is discussing first. The first extant volume of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Freud, Yates, Wilson, Toal

Posted on March 29, 2017 by stuartelden

Two volumes of Freud for the Foucault work; Julian Yates, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multi-Species Impression sent by the publisher; Richard Wilson’s Will Power: Essays on Shakespearean Authority; and Gerard Toal’s Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments