Monthly Archives: March 2025

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism (open access)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. This developed out of the work that went into Henri … Continue reading →

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Martin Mittelmeir, Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory, trans. Shelley Frisch, Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on March 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Martin Mittelmeir, Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory, trans. Shelley Frisch, Yale University Press, November 2024 Discussed at The Virtual Memories show – thanks to dmf for the link In the 1920s, the Gulf of … Continue reading →

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Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025

Posted on March 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025 Il volume affronta la concezione del normale e del patologico nel pensiero sociologico francese, in particolare in Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim e Maurice Halbwachs, attraverso … Continue reading →

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The Friendship between Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré

Posted on March 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Although they both studied in Germany, and were among those who attended Heidegger’s lecture courses in the 1920s, Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré didn’t meet at that time. (Arendt attended lectures in 1924-26 in Marburg; Koyré in 1928-29 in Freiburg.) Their first … Continue reading →

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Ara H. Merjian, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde – Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on March 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Ara H. Merjian, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde – Yale University Press, November 2024 A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation As the first comprehensive avant-garde of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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