Monthly Archives: September 2024

“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem”, audio recording of my talk to the workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences

“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem” – audio recording of my talk to workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences, University of Bristol, 26 September 2024 Thanks to Federico Testa and Pierre-Olivier Méthot for the … Continue reading

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Les plus vastes horizons du monde: Textes et images brésiliens (1935-1942) suivis de cinq films coréalisés avec Dina Dreyfus – eds. Samuel Titan and Carlos Augusto Calil, Editions Chandeigne, October 2024

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Les plus vastes horizons du monde: Textes et images brésiliens (1935-1942) suivis de cinq films coréalisés avec Dina Dreyfus – eds. Samuel Titan and Carlos Augusto Calil, Editions Chandeigne, October 2024 Les plus vastes horizons du monde rassemblent dix … Continue reading

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Walter Benjamin, On Goethe – ed. Susan Bernstein, Peter Fenves and Kevin McLaughlin, Stanford University Press, April 2025

Walter Benjamin, On Goethe – ed. Susan Bernstein, Peter Fenves and Kevin McLaughlin, Stanford University Press, April 2025 Thanks to Tim Howles for the link.

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Henk van Houtum, Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes: A New Cartography of Borders and Migration – nai010, January 2024 (print and e-book)

Henk van Houtum, Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes: A New Cartography of Borders and Migration – nai010, January 2024 (e-book and print) ‘Map attack! In Free the Map, a new publication by Henk van Houtum, traditional maps are challenged … Continue reading

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Éric Weil, Philosopher avec Critique: Articles et notes publiés dans la revue Critique, éd. Patrice Canivez, Gilbert Kirscher et Sylvie Patron – Vrin, September 2024

Éric Weil, Philosopher avec Critique: Articles et notes publiés dans la revue Critique, éd. Patrice Canivez, Gilbert Kirscher et Sylvie Patron – Vrin, September 2024 Cette édition présentée et annotée des textes publiés par Éric Weil dans la revue Critique, revue … Continue reading

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Review of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil

My review of Marcelo Hoffman’s remarkable book Foucault in Brazil is scheduled to appear in Political Theory next year, but is now available online first. Many thanks to Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for asking me to write the review, and Marcelo for … Continue reading

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Adam Takács, Foucault’s Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present – Rowman and Littlefield, December 2023

Adam Takács, Foucault’s Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present – Rowman and Littlefield, December 2023 Foucault’s Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present provides a comprehensive interpretation of Foucault’s work by focusing on its methodological, procedural, and epistemological elements. Adam … Continue reading

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David Stirrup & Jeffrey Orr, The Canada-US Border: Culture and Theory – Edinburgh University Press, February 2024

David Stirrup & Jeffrey Orr, The Canada-US Border: Culture and Theory – Edinburgh University Press, February 2024

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‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences – University of Bristol, 26 September 2024

‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences – University of Bristol, 26 September 2024 Speakers: Annagiulia Canesso (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore/Università degli Studi Padova), Stuart Elden (University of Warwick), Giulia Gandolfi (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia/Karlsruhe), … Continue reading

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Canguilhem-Koyré-Gottmann

Most of my recent trip to Paris was for the Indo-European project, but I also did a little work on Alexandre Koyré, which is becoming something of a side project (see the posts Koyré in Cairo, Koyré and a Network … Continue reading

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