Monthly Archives: May 2024

Jacques Schuhmacher, Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections: A research guide – UCL Press, May 2024 (print and open access)

Jacques Schuhmacher, Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections: A research guide – UCL Press, May 2024 (print and open access) When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects … Continue reading

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Editors at Philosophy & Public Affairs Resign; Will Launch New OA Journal

Editors at Philosophy & Public Affairs Resign; Will Launch New OA Journal – Daily Nous The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (complete edition; three volumes in one) – L’Arche, April 2024

Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (complete edition; three volumes in one) – L’Arche, April 2024 In English translation, Verso have long had a complete edition in a single volume, but I think this is the first complete edition … Continue reading

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Bibliothèque nationale de France – famous reader cards, including Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes

Chroniques de la BnF 100 has some of the Bibliothèque Nationale’s famous reader’s cards Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes are online at the link. I previously shared Foucault’s card, with an attempt to decipher what it meant. Here’s … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 Out at the end of this month. « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et … Continue reading

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Not everyone can afford open access monographs | Wonkhe

Not everyone can afford open access monographs | Wonkhe Adding requirements for open access books and chapters to REF will massively increase costs – and there is no additional funding to cover these. Dawn Hibbert asks for a rethink Some … Continue reading

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Mary Gilmartin, Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin & Sue Roberts (ed.), Key Thinkers on Space and Place, third edition – Sage, June 2024

Mary Gilmartin, Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin & Sue Roberts (ed.), Key Thinkers on Space and Place, third edition – Sage, June 2024 Space and place are at the heart of how geographers and sociologists think.  This updated edition of the … Continue reading

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Alexandre Lefebvre, Liberalism as a Way of Life – Princeton University Press, June 2024

Alexandre Lefebvre, Liberalism as a Way of Life – Princeton University Press, June 2024 Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about … Continue reading

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Foucault, writing and the contemporary university: a grim celebration, London, 19 June 2024

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Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, hors-série Les Essentiels 16, April-May 2024

Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024 Il y a quarante ans, le 25 juin 1984, Michel Foucault disparaissait, emporté par le sida. Il avait 57 ans. Cette mort interrompait une existence prolifique et turbulente. Bâtir une … Continue reading

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