Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Stuart Elden, Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available, Progressive Geographies, July 13, 2025

La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard

Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued much of Foucault and Defert’s personal library, which will soon become available online at the Foucault fiches de lecture site. Thanks to Niki Kasumi Clements, who helped with the cataloguing, for the link. Some other parts of Foucault’s collection – books with dedications from their authors – are at Yale’s Beinecke library, which I visited in 2018.
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