Category Archives: Michel Foucault

Jonathan Bate on writing a biography of Ted Hughes – copyright, author estates and family members

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A very interesting piece in The Guardian by Jonathan Bate about his writing of a biography of Ted Hughes. The issues are much wider than this particular case, and concern copyright, author estates and the role of family members. There are … Continue reading →

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Jacques le Goff (1924-2014)

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Jacques le Goff, medieval historian, has died at the age of ninety. I found his work really helpful while writing The Birth of Territory, and recently consulted his collection Hérésies et sociétés dans l’Europe pré-industrielle, 11e-18e siècles in which Foucault has a chapter. There … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, auteur, lecteur, archiviste. Dialogue avec Daniel Defert – video recording

Posted on March 30, 2014 by stuartelden

“Michel Foucault, auteur, lecteur, archiviste. Dialogue avec Daniel Defert” – video recording available here.

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The English language sources of Foucault’s L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi

Posted on March 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Last year a little book of Foucault’s lectures at Dartmouth College in 1980 was published in French – L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi: Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Paris: Vrin, 2013. [Update: A … Continue reading →

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A few translated excerpts from the discussion following Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures in Rio

Posted on March 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Between 21-25 May 1973, Foucault gave five lectures in Rio de Janeiro. These were under the collective title of ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’. They were published in Portuguese in 1974 as “A verdade e as formas jurídicas” (easily available online), … Continue reading →

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The remaining Foucault lecture courses – French and English publishing details

Posted on March 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Update 8 July 2014: Subjectivité et vérité and Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling have now been published; Théories et institutions pénales is forthcoming in 2015.   Only two of Foucault’s Collège de France lecture courses remain unpublished in French – Théories et institutions pénales (1971-72) and Subjectivité et vérité (1980-81). As … Continue reading →

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Anthropologie du conscrit français – a text mentioned by Foucault in 1974

Posted on March 25, 2014 by stuartelden

In an addendum to a piece on this site about Foucault’s seminar colleague Jean-Pierre Peter, I made the following note: Update: the only other place I know where Foucault mentions Peter is in “The Birth of Social Medicine” – the … Continue reading →

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The original source for Foucault’s Pierre Rivière collaborative project

Posted on March 25, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve long known that Foucault and his colleagues discovered the case of Pierre Rivière in Annales d’hygiène publique et de médecine légale, during the seminar of his first year of his work at the Collège de France. This particular case so fascinated … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and Fons Elders – a preparatory interview for the Chomsky debate

Posted on March 25, 2014 by stuartelden

I’d not seen this before – fifteen minutes of video in preparation for the Chomsky debate between Foucault and Fons Elders. Thanks to Sjoerd van Tuinen and Elena Loizidou for sharing this. Update: Jeremy Crampton has more news on this … Continue reading →

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Materiali Foucaultiani – a tri-lingual journal and resource site

Posted on March 18, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve known about this site for a while, but not sure I’ve posted about it before. Materiali Foucaultiani is an online, tri-lingual (Italian-French-English) journal and website concerning Foucault. As well as the journal, there is a lot of information on … Continue reading →

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