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This book is the third of four major intellectual histories of Michel Foucault, exploring newly released archival material and covering the French thinker’s entire academic career.
Foucault’s Last Decade was published by Polity in 2016. Foucault: The Birth of Power was published in 2017. The Archaeology of Foucault will publish in the early 2020s.
The Early Foucault
Stuart Elden
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Cover illustration: Elsa Norström, Journal de la section des jeunes de l’alliance française d’Upsal 1953–, Uppsala University Special Collections, Carolina Rediviva Library
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2599-7
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Names: Elden, Stuart, 1971- author.
Title: The early Foucault / Stuart Elden.
Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “The first intellectual history of Foucault’s early career”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020047809 (print) | LCCN 2020047810 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509525959 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509525966 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509525973 (pdf) | ISBN 9781509525997 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Acknowledgements
As a part of a series of books on Foucault, a project which has been intermittent since 2000 and intense since 2013, there is a continuing and overlapping debt to those thanked before.
I particularly thank Mark Kelly for sparking the initial idea; Margaret Atack for sharing David Macey’s correspondence and interview transcripts from his research for The Lives of Michel Foucault; Aner Barzilay for conversations on the early Foucault and sharing transcriptions of student notes; Didier Eribon for allowing me to see Foucault’s letters to Georges Dumézil; Stefanos Geroulanos for sharing other material by Dumézil; Laurent Feneyrou for access to the Foucault–Jean Barraqué correspondence; Paul Griffiths for his notes on that correspondence; and Daniele Lorenzini for conversations about Foucault and the posthumous publication programme. I remain grateful to Daniel Defert and Henri-Paul Fruchaud. At a late stage, Daniele and Alison Downham Moore generously read the entire manuscript and made some useful suggestions.
For the first time I have employed research assistants to help with some foreign language material. Oscar Jängnemyr provided summaries or translations of Swedish texts about Foucault’s time in Uppsala; Julia Jasińska summarized a Polish book; Federico Testa summarized Alessandro de Lima Francisco and Marcio Luiz Miotto’s unpublished Portuguese theses, which they kindly sent to me; and Melissa Pawelski located some archival documents, shared notes, and translated a key text about Foucault’s time in Hamburg.
I gratefully acknowledge the British Academy/Leverhulme small grant SRG1819\191434, supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and the Department of Politics and International Studies and the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick for funding archival visits.
For access to archival material I thank the Archives littéraires suisses, Berne; Archives Nationales, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine; Bibliothèque interuniversitaire Sorbonne; Bibliothèque Lettres Ulm, École Normale Supérieure; Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra; Bibliothèque nationale de France-Richelieu, archives et manuscrits, especially Laurence le Bras; Bibliothèque nationale de France-Richelieu-Louvois, département de musique; Nathalie Queyroux and David Denéchaud at the Centre d’Archives en Philosophie, History et Édition des Sciences (CAPHÉS), École Normale Supérieure; Carolina Rediviva Library, special collections room, Uppsala University; Collège de France; Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC), Caen; Staats- und Unibibliothek Hamburg; Staatsarchiv Hamburg; Staatsarchiv Thurgau, Frauenfeld; Universitätsarchiv Tübingen; and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Peter Harrington Books in Chelsea allowed me to consult a rare copy of the pre-thesis version of Folie et déraison.
I have used several other libraries to find