Monthly Archives: February 2023

Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, edited by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, May 2023

Posted on February 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, edited by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, May 2023 This is a previously unpublished manuscript, probably from 1966, written after The Order of Things and before or alongside early work on what became … Continue reading →

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Books received – Leroi-Gourhan, Blanchot, Vogl, Ungar, Heidegger, Bobic and Haghighi

Posted on February 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books connected in part to the ongoing research on Indo-European though in France, the latest volume of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe and copies of Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short History of the Present and Nikolina Bobic and … Continue reading →

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Archive: Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (audio recording and other links)

Posted on February 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Richard Sennett and Michel Foucault, Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979) New Books Network, 2 Feb 2023. [See site for recording] In 1979, sociologist and NYIH founder Richard Sennett, and philosopher Michel Foucault,…

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Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, April 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, trans. Michael Chase, April 2023 The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot’s final work, now available in English.With a foreword by Arnold I. … Continue reading →

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Andrew Curley, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo – University of Arizona Press, April 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrew Curley, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo – University of Arizona Press, April 2023 For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation’s largest coal plants closed. … Continue reading →

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Alain Corbin, A History of the Wind, trans. William Peniston – Polity, November 2022

Posted on February 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Alain Corbin, A History of the Wind, trans. William Peniston – Polity, November 2022 Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing … Continue reading →

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Sida, prisons, décolonisation : la vie militante de Daniel Defert (2023)

Posted on February 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Sida, prisons, décolonisation : la vie militante de Daniel Defert, France Culture (radio), fév 2023. © Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons – cc-by-sa-3.0, Aucun(e) À propos de la série Une série d’entretiens proposée par Virginie…

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Interviews with Mary Douglas and Roland Barthes in ‘Notes on Structuralism’ section of Theory, Culture and Society (open access)

Posted on February 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview – Mike Featherstone, Bryan S. Turner A previously unpublished 1979 interview: This interview with Mary Douglas took place at Lancaster University in the Religious Studies Department. The main focus of the interview … Continue reading →

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A photo of Daniel Defert in Foucault’s old apartment

Posted on February 8, 2023 by stuartelden

A photo I took of Daniel Defert in 2015 when I visited him in Foucault’s former apartment on the rue de Vaugirard. He’s signing a copy of Un Vie Politique for me.

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Daniel Defert (1937-2023)

Posted on February 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Daniel Defert, philosophe, sociologue et figure de la lutte contre le sida, est mort Daniel Defert (2015)by Claude Truong-Ngoc L’universitaire a été à l’origine de la création de l’association Aides en 1984, après la disparition…

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