Monthly Archives: May 2023

‘Indo-European Thought in Post-War France’, Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies, 31 May 2023, 4pm

Update: the recording is available here For anyone interested in my new project, I’ll be speaking about some of it in an online seminar today at 4pm: ‘Indo-European Thought in Post-War France’, Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies

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John Forrester, Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures, ed. Lisa Appignanesi – Polity, May 2023

John Forrester, Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures, ed. Lisa Appignanesi – Polity, May 2023

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Le jeune Foucault et la psychopathologie: archives et éditions (2023)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Le jeune Foucault et la psychopathologie: archives et éditions (2023) 22 juin 2023 ENS de Paris Intervenants : Elisabetta Basso (Université de Pavie et Caphés), Claude Debru (Caphés), Mireille Delbraccio (Caphés), Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Marie-Laure Massot…

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Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 1 – updating the list of English translations of Oeuvres complètes on this site

With the publication of Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 1: 1944-1948 (trans. Chris Turner, eds. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys), English readers now have access to most of the essays in volume 11 of Bataille’s Œuvres complètes. I’ve updated the list … Continue reading

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Books received – Chestov, Nietzsche, Ginzburg, Rose, Spotts, Bataille

Some recently bought books – Léon Chestov’s L’idée de bien chez Tolstoï et Nietzsche (Bataille was one of the translators); the two most recent volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Carlo Ginzburg’s The Judge and the Historian; Gillian Rose, Judaism … Continue reading

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Jonathan I. Israel, Spinoza, Life and Legacy – Oxford University Press, August 2023

Jonathan I. Israel, Spinoza, Life and Legacy – Oxford University Press, August 2023 A massive, 1,344 page study of Spinoza… A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man’s life, relationships, … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 12: working in some UK archives; Benveniste’s EPHE teaching; some talks on the research

After the last update a friend contacted me with some valuable information – about an archive which was already on my list of ones to try to visit when in the United States next year, but should certainly now be … Continue reading

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François Krug, Réactions françaises: Enquête sur l’extrême droite littéraire – Seuil, March 2023

François Krug, Réactions françaises: Enquête sur l’extrême droite littéraire – Seuil, March 2023

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Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr eds, To Write the Africa World and The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings – Polity 2023

Achille Mbembe & Felwine Sarr eds, To Write the Africa World – Polity 2023, trans. Drew Burk In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on … Continue reading

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Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Brill, September 2022; paperback Haymarket September 2023

Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Brill, September 2022 A paperback is forthcoming from Haymarket in September 2023 [update – now published]

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