Monthly Archives: May 2021

Foucault – Duby – Dumézil – Changeux – Thom : Cinq grands entretiens au Champ Freudien (2021)

Posted on May 19, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault – Duby – Dumézil – Changeux – Thom : Cinq grands entretiens au Champ Freudien, Navarin – Février 2021 Introduction par Christiane Alberti, Deborah Gutermann-Jacquet, France Jaigu Lacan a toujours insisté pour que les…

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Martin Jay, Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History – Penn Press, November 2021

Posted on May 17, 2021 by stuartelden

Martin Jay, Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History – Penn Press, November 2021 There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of … Continue reading →

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Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore – video discussion of Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference

Posted on May 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore – a really interesting video discussion of Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke University Press, 2021). Thanks to dmf for this link. In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss … Continue reading →

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Alisa Zhulina, ‘The Tyrant and the Martyr: Recent Research on Sovereignty and Theater’ – review essay in Journal of the History of Ideas (including Shakespearean Territories)

Posted on May 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Alisa Zhulina, ‘The Tyrant and the Martyr: Recent Research on Sovereignty and Theater‘ – review essay in Journal of the History of Ideas (requires subscription). An interesting review essay, which includes discussion of my book Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago … Continue reading →

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Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021

Posted on May 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Rachael Squire, Undersea Geopolitics: Sealab, Science, and the Cold War – Rowman, July 2021 This book furthers academic scholarship in cutting-edge areas of geographical and geopolitical writing by drawing on a series of little-studied undersea living projects conducted by the … Continue reading →

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Dante Fedele, The Medieval Foundations of International Law: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327–1400), Doctrine and Practice of the Ius Gentium – Brill 2021

Posted on May 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Dante Fedele, The Medieval Foundations of International Law: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327–1400), Doctrine and Practice of the Ius Gentium – Brill 2021 This looks a really interesting study of Baldus, who was significant in the argument I make in The Birth … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cavaillès, Eliade, Foucault, Hoffman, Derrida (with a note on the new Foucault editions)

Posted on May 7, 2021 by stuartelden

The new translation of Jean Cavaillès, On Logic and the Theory of Science, some second-hand books by Eliade, a collective volume on Vincennes, the reedition of Foucault’s first two Collège de France courses, a special issue of the Carceral Notebooks on … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hegel, Skinner, Pereltsvaig and Lewis, Kant (with a grumble about books in a series)

Posted on May 7, 2021 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work for Cambridge University Press: The first four volumes of the Cambridge Hegel Translations, Quentin Skinner’s From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics, The Indo-European Controversy, and Kant’s Lectures and Drafts … Continue reading →

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Gregg Lambert, Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought – Edinburgh University Press, February 2021

Posted on May 6, 2021 by stuartelden

Gregg Lambert, Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought – Edinburgh University Press, February 2021 Radically reorientates the future direction of Continental philosophy according to a geo-political image of thought  Presents the notion of ‘geophilosophy’ as an alternative to contemporary theories … Continue reading →

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Abram Foley, The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America – University of Minnesota Press, August 2021

Posted on May 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Abram Foley, The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America – University of Minnesota Press, August 2021 Michel Foucault famously theorized “the author function” in his 1969 essay “What Is an Author?” proposing that the existence of the author limits … Continue reading →

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