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 to
researchers. Drawing 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 Dumezil, 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 Weizsacker, and Immanuel Kant; his clinical
work with Georges and Jacqueline Verdeaux; and his cultural work
outside of France. Investigating how Foucault came to write History
of Madness, Stuart Elden shows this great thinker's deep engagement
with phenomenology, anthropology and psychology. An outstanding,
meticulous work of intellectual history, The Early Foucault sheds
new light on the formation of a major twentieth-century figure.
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