Monthly Archives: March 2023

Michel Foucault THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE (1) Table of Contents

Posted on March 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
Publication of an unpublished book manuscript by Michel Foucault: PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. Text established by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, under the direction of François Ewald – to be published by Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, in May 2023 The…

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David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023

Posted on March 9, 2023 by stuartelden

David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023 An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet … Continue reading →

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Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years – Penn Press, December 2023

Posted on March 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years – Penn Press, December 2023 Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Even Foucault’s biographers have neglected this … Continue reading →

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Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Correspondance (1897-1927), eds. Rafael Faraco Benthien, Christophe Labaune and Christine Lorre – Classiques Garnier, 2021

Posted on March 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Correspondance (1897-1927), eds. Rafael Faraco Benthien, Christophe Labaune and Christine Lorre – Classiques Garnier, 2021 This volume significantly increases the corpus of the writings of Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert, by making public letters exchanged during thirty … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Eliade, Blanchot, Rousso

Posted on March 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Apart from the most-recent Lacan seminar to appear in the Points series, all bought second-hand. All connected to the Indo-European thought project in some way.

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Cornelius Castoriadis, The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983, translated by John Garner, María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta – Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Posted on March 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Cornelius Castoriadis, The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983, translated by John Garner, María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta – Edinburgh University Press, 2023 Update December 2024 – now available in paperback and e-book.

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Martha Nussbaum and Politics; Hannah Arendt and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023

Posted on March 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Brandon Robshaw, Martha Nussbaum and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023 Providing an overview of the political and ethical philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, this book presents the ideas of this significant philosopher and shows how her thought, while rooted … Continue reading →

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Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis (eds.), Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Manchester University Press, February 2023

Posted on March 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis (eds.), Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Manchester University Press, February 2023 Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused … Continue reading →

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Claire Rydell Arcenas, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life – University of Chicago Press, 2022

Posted on March 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Claire Rydell Arcenas, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life – University of Chicago Press, 2022 The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on … Continue reading →

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Stephen Legg, Roundtable Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London – Cambridge University Press, March 2023

Posted on March 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Stephen Legg, Roundtable Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London – Cambridge University Press, March 2023 Just an expensive hardback at present, unfortunately. Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India’s constitutional … Continue reading →

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