Category Archives: Michel Foucault

The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift

Posted on May 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s literary journal TriQuarterly was a significant piece on so-called “structuralism”, and the following year’s “Michel … Continue reading →

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Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research – Gdansk, 17-19 July 2025

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research – Gdansk, 17-19 July 2025

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 28: archives in Princeton, Chicago and final work in New York

Posted on May 20, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve continued my work with archives in the USA over the past several weeks. Some of this has been in relation to the Indo-European Thought project, but I’ve managed to work on some peripheral things too.I had two days in Princeton, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Edward Said, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Vladimir Nabokov | 1 Comment

Books received – Robeyns, Billé, Legg, Neocleous, Daviron, Granet, Shapiro, Testa, Carrigan, Pothecary

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Books generously sent to me by publishers, authors or editors. Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism; Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities; Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police; … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57

Posted on May 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57. Michel Foucault’s historical approach is usually understood as moving from archaeology to genealogy, the former describing his work of the 1960s and the latter … Continue reading →

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Matteo Polleri and Bernard E. Harcourt: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video)

Posted on April 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Matteo Polleri and Bernard E. Harcourt: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video) Academic debate tends to create conflicts among straw figures. That is certainly what has often happened in the many debates over Karl Marx and Michel Foucault. But … Continue reading →

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Richard III or Edward III? A small historical error in Foucault’s History of Madness – and his attempt to correct it

Posted on April 24, 2025 by stuartelden

There is a small historical error in Foucault’s History of Madness, which endures through the different French versions with the exception of Oeuvres, but which is corrected in one of the English versions. Yes, there are other errors, but I’m focused on … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Binswanger and Existential Analysis, ed. Elisabetta Basso, trans. Marie Satya McDonough – Columbia University Press, July 2025

Posted on April 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Binswanger and Existential Analysis, ed. Elisabetta Basso, trans. Marie Satya McDonough – Columbia University Press, July 2025, with foreword by Bernard Harcourt Really good to see the translation of this important volume scheduled. In the early 1950s, the … Continue reading →

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Fifteen ‘Sunday Histories’ on Progressive Geographies

Posted on April 17, 2025 by stuartelden

There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, David Farrell Krell, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Gillian Rose, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Umberto Eco | Leave a comment

Who translated Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things?

Posted on April 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Who translated Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things? The original English edition, published by Pantheon in 1970 (and Tavistock in the UK) has the title The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, and under the author name says “A … Continue reading →

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