Monthly Archives: May 2025

Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57

Posted on May 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57. Michel Foucault’s historical approach is usually understood as moving from archaeology to genealogy, the former describing his work of the 1960s and the latter … Continue reading →

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Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025

Posted on May 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025 I’m sure this will be interesting, but I’m disappointed it’s only 160 pages. This really feels like it needs someone to do a really major treatment. I’ve read the Jeff … Continue reading →

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Online discussion of Chris Philo’s Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination – 27 May 2025

Posted on May 5, 2025 by stuartelden

A reminder of this event on 27 May 2025, 5.30pm, online – a discussion of Chris Philo’s important new book Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025). London Group of Historical Geographers – registration (free, but required 24 … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, and The Song of Igor – other sources for the story of a failed collaboration

Posted on May 4, 2025 by stuartelden

In a previous piece on Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, Marc Szeftel and The Song of Igor, I outlined the story of a planned collaborative edition and English translation of the Slavic epic The Song of Igor. This is a text of disputed … Continue reading →

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Critique 935 – Après Canguilhem: Nouveaux dialogues entre médecine et philosophie

Posted on May 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Critique 935 – Après Canguilhem: Nouveaux dialogues entre médecine et philosophie « Ôtez Canguilhem et vous ne comprenez plus grand-chose à toute une série de discussions. » Par ces mots, Michel Foucault faisait de Georges Canguilhem l’invisible clef de voûte de la … Continue reading →

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Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science – Springer, 2024

Posted on May 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science – Springer, 2024 This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically … Continue reading →

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Alain Corbin, Fragility: A History of Plaster, trans. Helen Morrison – Polity, June 2025

Posted on May 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Alain Corbin, Fragility: A History of Plaster, trans. Helen Morrison – Polity, June 2025 The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since … Continue reading →

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025

Posted on May 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 Update June 2025: New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende An exploration of the political thought of one of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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Garrett Felber, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre – AK Books, May 2025

Posted on May 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Garrett Felber, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre – AK Books, May 2025 We’re really excited to be working with AK Press on the preorder campaign for this new book on Buffalo legend, Martin Sostre! For each … Continue reading →

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