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Stuart Elden’s Foucault books reviewed and discussed
Stuart Elden two books (Polity 2016) and (Polity 2017) have recently been reviewed and discussed in a number of places.
A review of both books can be found in by Bruce Robbins and in by Peter Gratton (along with Foucault’s The Punitive Society).
A review of Foucault’s Last Decade by Kurt Borg is in ; and one of Foucault: the Birth of Power at the by Syamala Roberts.
He has also taken part in discussions with Dave O’Brien for the New Books in Critical Theory series on both books – Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power .
Among earlier discussions of the books there is one with Peter Gratton, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor in ; and with Antoinette Koleva in , also in Bulgarian translation in Sociological Problems [Социологически проблеми]. There is also a longer piece about the writing of the books at . All the above links are open access.
Stuart is currently writing a book on The Early Foucault, and updates on its research and writing can be found at his blog, .