Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Foucault's Influence on Politics and Thought
In the early 1960s Foucault gets a position to teach at the University of Clemau-Ferrin in central France. He is teaching psychology but he's also doing research for his own work. The Vincent period is an important one in terms of some of the themes of Foucault's work, but it's also one that he almost can't wait to get out of. For most of us learning English wasn't exactly a high point in our academic careers; we didn't take any foreign language courses or anything like that. Now there are more than 10 million subscriptions to Babel: A Language Addict’s Guide to Teaching and Learning by David Frum on sale
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