{"title":"Stuart Elden","description":"\u003cp\u003eStuart Elden's work offers insightful explorations into the intersections of philosophy, politics, and history, with a particular focus on the thought of Michel Foucault. His books delve into themes of sovereignty, power, and knowledge, illuminating complex ideas through rigorous scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in critical theory, political philosophy, and the intellectual histories that shape contemporary thought will find Elden's writings both challenging and enriching. His works serve as thoughtful commentaries for those seeking a deeper understanding of philosophical and political concepts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"foucaults-last-decade-by-stuart-elden-9780745683928","title":"Foucault's Last Decade","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on \u003ci\u003eDiscipline and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of \u003ci\u003eThe History of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third volumes were published, he was dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis decade is one of the most fascinating of his career. It begins with the initiation of the sexuality project, and ends with its enforced and premature closure. Yet in 1974 he had something very different in mind for \u003ci\u003eThe History of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e than the way things were left in 1984. Foucault originally planned a thematically organised series of six volumes, but wrote little of what he promised and published none of them. Instead, over the course of the next decade, he took his work in very different directions, studying, lecturing and writing about historical periods stretching back to antiquity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoucault's Last Decade\u003c\/i\u003e offers a detailed intellectual history of both the abandoned thematic project and the more properly historical version left incomplete at his death. It draws on all Foucault’s writings in this period, his courses at the Collège de France and lectures elsewhere, as well as material archived in France and California to provide a comprehensive overview and synthetic account of Foucault’s last decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000623775980,"sku":"9780745683928","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13196413482453.jpg?v=1763290453"},{"product_id":"the-early-foucault-by-stuart-elden-9781509525966","title":"The Early Foucault","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organising cultural programmes, and lecturing in Uppsala, Warsaw, and Hamburg. Although he published little in this period, Foucault wrote much more, some of which has been preserved and only recently become available to researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on archives in France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and the USA, this is the most detailed study yet of Foucault’s early career. It recounts his debt to teachers including Louis Althusser, Jean Hyppolite, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean Wahl; his diploma thesis on Hegel; and his early teaching career. It explores his initial encounters with Georges Canguilhem, Jacques Lacan, and Georges Dumézil, and analyses his sustained reading of Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger. Also included are detailed discussions of his translations of Ludwig Binswanger, Victor von Weizsäcker, and Immanuel Kant; his clinical work with Georges and Jacqueline Verdeaux; and his cultural work outside of France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInvestigating how Foucault came to write \u003ci\u003eHistory of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, Stuart Elden shows this great thinker’s deep engagement with phenomenology, anthropology, and psychology. An outstanding, meticulous work of intellectual history, \u003ci\u003eThe Early Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the formation of a major twentieth-century figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341233963244,"sku":"9781509525966","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12281913482725.jpg?v=1772187797"},{"product_id":"the-archaeology-of-foucault-by-stuart-elden-9781509545353","title":"The Archaeology of Foucault","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\nOn 20 May 1961, Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970, he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and philosophy. He taught both psychology and philosophy, beginning his explorations of the question of sexuality.\n\nWeaving together analyses of published and unpublished material, this is a comprehensive study of this crucial period. As well as Foucault’s major texts, it discusses his travels to Brazil, Japan, and the USA, his time in Tunisia, and his editorial work for \u003ci\u003eCritique\u003c\/i\u003e and the complete works of Nietzsche and Bataille.\n\nIt was in this period that Foucault developed the historical-philosophical approach he called ‘archaeology’ – the elaboration of the archive – which he understood as the rules that make possible specific claims. In its detailed study of Foucault’s archive, the book is itself an archaeology of Foucault in another sense, both excavation and reconstruction.\n\nThis book completes a four-volume series of major intellectual histories of Foucault. \u003ci\u003eFoucault’s Last Decade\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Polity in 2016; \u003ci\u003eFoucault: The Birth of Power\u003c\/i\u003e followed in 2017; and \u003ci\u003eThe Early Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e in 2021.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363011346668,"sku":"9781509545353","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12475783482725.jpg?v=1772912107"},{"product_id":"mitra-varuna-an-essay-on-two-indo-european-representations-of-sovereignty-by-stuart-elden-9781912808977","title":"Mitra-Varuna - An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic text that develops one prong of Dumézil’s tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorges Dumézil’s fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome, Scandinavia, and the Celts yielded an idea that became his most influential scholarly legacy: the tripartite hypothesis, which divides Indo-European societal functions into three classes: the sacred sovereign, the warrior, and the producer. \u003ci\u003eMitra-Varuna\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1940, concentrates on the first function, that of sovereignty. Dumézil identifies two types of rulers, the first judicial and worldly, the second divine and supernatural. These figures, both priestly, are oppositional but complementary. The title nods to these roles, referring to the gods Mitra, a rational mediator, and Varuna, an awesome religious figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStuart Elden’s critical edition, based on the 1988 English translation by Derek Coltman, identifies variations between the first and second French editions and completes—and in places corrects—Dumézil’s references. The editor’s detailed introduction situates \u003ci\u003eMitra-Varuna\u003c\/i\u003e within Dumézil’s career, outlines how his treatment of its themes developed over time, and relates the book to the political controversy around his ideas. 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