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  • Canguilhem

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis in philosophy on the concept of the reflex, supervised by Gaston Bachelard. He was the sponsor of Michel Foucault’s doctoral ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Birth of Territory

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory.Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foucault

    The Birth of Power

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift in Foucault's approach?Foucault's time in Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Sloterdijk Now

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Series series Theory Now
    Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most challenging and contentious thinkers currently working within the European tradition. This is the first collection devoted to his work for English-language audiences and will act as an introduction to his work, set an agenda for engagement with his ideas, and relate his writings to a range of political, theoretical and practical contexts.Since his philosophical ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Early Foucault

    by Stuart Elden ...
    It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing 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 ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Archaeology of Foucault

    by Stuart Elden ...
    On 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.Weaving together ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Terror and Territory

    The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Today's global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the relationship between territory and sovereignty is under siege. Unfolding an updated understanding of the concept of territory, Stuart Elden shows how the contemporary "war on terror" is ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Foucault's Last Decade

    by Stuart Elden ...
    On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third volumes were published, he was dead.This decade is one of the most fascinating of his career. It begins with the initiation of the sexuality project, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Shakespearean Territories

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare's unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Space, Knowledge and Power

    Foucault and Geography

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Michel Foucault’s work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research. This book, the first to engage Foucault’s geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, is framed around his discussions with the French geography journal Hérodote in the mid 1970s. The opening third of ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Mitra-Varuna

    An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

    by Georges Dumézil, Veena Das ...
    Translated by Derek Coltman ...
    A classic text that develops one prong of Dumézil’s tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign.Georges 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 ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Mapping the Present

    Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History

    by Stuart Elden ...
    In a late interview, Foucault, suggested that Heidegger was for him the "essential philosopher." Taking this claim seriously, Mapping the Present assesses the relationship between these two thinkers, particularly on the issue of space and history. It suggests that space and history need to be rethought, and combined as a spatial history, rather than as a history of space. In other words, space ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD