Monthly Archives: April 2023

Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault – University of Chicago Press, September 2023

Posted on April 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault – University of Chicago Press, September 2023 Great to see this book going through production – and three great endorsements at the UCP site, from Arnold Davidson, … Continue reading →

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Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science – Cornell University Press, 2023

Posted on April 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science – Cornell University Press, 2023 In The Will to Predict, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the conceptual and institutional history of … Continue reading →

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Hugh Lopes Williams, ‘Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Political Paradoxes of Structural Anthropology’ – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on April 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Hugh Lopes Williams, ‘Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Political Paradoxes of Structural Anthropology‘ – Journal of the History of Ideas blog In 1952, Claude Lévi-Strauss, then a respected but by no means famous anthropologist, published the short book Race and History, commissioned … Continue reading →

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Tim Simpson, Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023

Posted on April 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Tim Simpson, Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023 Update: there is a New Books discussion with Michael O. Johnston here. Betting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bataille, Eliade, Castree, Charnock & Christophers, Hakl

Posted on April 18, 2023 by stuartelden

The older collection L’Apprenti Sorcier and the new translation The Limit of the Useful by Bataille; a volume of Eliade correspondence; Noel Castree, Greig Charnock, Brett Christophers, David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to his Thought and Hans Thomas Hakl’s Eranos: An Alternative … Continue reading →

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Niki Kasumi Clements, “Foucault the Confessor”, University of Bristol, 19 April 2023, 3.30pm

Posted on April 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Niki Kasumi Clements, “Foucault the Confessor”, University of Bristol, 19 April 2023, 3.30pm Joint Research Talk  Department of French & the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition Niki Kasumi Clements, Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor … Continue reading →

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Paul Allen Miller, “Foucault’s Formative Years” – review of The Early Foucault (Polity, 2021) in Symploke

Posted on April 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Paul Allen Miller, “Foucault’s Formative Years” – a very generous review of my 2021 Polity book The Early Foucault in Symploke. The review requires subscription, unfortunately, but I’m happy to share if you email me. Stuart Elden has become the … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg, The Soul of Brutes – Seagull, November 2022

Posted on April 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg, The Soul of Brutes – Seagull, November 2022 A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his … Continue reading →

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Richard Wolin, Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology – Yale University Press, January 2023

Posted on April 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Wolin, Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology – Yale University Press, January 2023 What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century’s most important philosopher? Martin Heidegger’s … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023

Posted on April 14, 2023 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023 In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida … Continue reading →

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