Monthly Archives: July 2026

Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026

Posted on July 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026 Now published – a major, and very expensive, reference work, though the e-book is less. I say a bit about my chapter, on Foucault and structuralism, here.

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Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers eds. How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought – Routledge, July 2026

Posted on July 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers eds. How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought – Routledge, July 2026 This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Stanford University Press, August 2026

Posted on July 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Stanford University Press, August 2026 Thus Spoke Zarathustra stands alone among Nietzsche’s published works as a poetic and narrative rendering of his most sophisticated ideas through the medium of … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Lenger, The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism – trans. Daniel Steuer, Polity, June 2026

Posted on July 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Friedrich Lenger, The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism – trans. Daniel Steuer, Polity, June 2026 Over the last 500 years, capitalism has produced a world that is highly interdependent and at the same time highly asymmetrical. … Continue reading →

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Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen or, my Life in Theory – Penguin, July 2025

Posted on July 29, 2026 by stuartelden

Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen or, my Life in Theory – Penguin, July 2025 Review in The New York Times; feature in The New Yorker (requires subscription). Thanks to dmf and Alin Constantin for the alert. Update: there is also a … Continue reading →

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Anthony Iles and Mattin eds., Abolishing Capitalist Totality – Minor Compositions, 2026

Posted on July 28, 2026 by stuartelden

Anthony Iles and Mattin eds., Abolishing Capitalist Totality – Minor Compositions, 2026 When capitalism feels inescapable, theory becomes a weapon to challenge fatalistic totalities. This book explores the limits of the colonization of everyday life by economic logic gone mad. … Continue reading →

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Francis Dupuis-Déri – Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull, Between the Lines, June 2025

Posted on July 28, 2026 by stuartelden

Francis Dupuis-Déri – Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull, Between the Lines, June 2025 On November 16, 1980, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser strangled his wife in their Parisian apartment, in a period when she was … Continue reading →

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Books received (2) – Bloch, Wolff, Butler, Sloterdijk, Erdur, Klein-Gousseff, Ginzburg

Posted on July 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Two recent editions of texts by Marc Bloch, Étienne Wolff’s Science des monstres, two recent books by Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? and What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology, Peter Sloterdijk’s The Continent without Qualities: Bookmarks in the … Continue reading →

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Books received (1) – Bloch, Derrida, Patchin, Neale, Caló & Enes Pereira, Braudel

Posted on July 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Older books by Bloch and Braudel, bought second-hand, a reedition of three important texts by Derrida,  Force de loi, Voyous, Fichus, and the recent La Chose Séminaire (1975-1977) Suivi de la 6e séance de Donner le temps II, Paige Marie Patchin, … Continue reading →

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Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Louis Renou and a 1940 arrest by the Germans

Posted on July 26, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve written about Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940), an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology, briefly before in this series. From various accounts, there are two pieces of information about her. After the death of her first husband Michel Jonval in 1935, Sjoestedt married … Continue reading →

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