Monthly Archives: August 2026

Foucault on Frans Hals, The Regents and the illustration of his History of Madness

Posted on August 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault’s discussion on Dutch television with Noam Chomsky, moderated by Fons Elders, is of course well known.  The interview was part of a series, also including dialogues between A.J. Ayer and Arne Naess, Karl Popper and John Eccles, and Leszek … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Fentress and Adam Rabinowitz, Slaving States: From West Africa to the Ancient Mediterranean – Princeton University Press, August/October 2026

Posted on August 22, 2026 by stuartelden

Elizabeth Fentress and Adam Rabinowitz, Slaving States: From West Africa to the Ancient Mediterranean – Princeton University Press, August/October 2026 The growing economies of ancient Greece and Rome created an ever-increasing demand for enslaved labor, which was supplied by states … Continue reading →

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Books received – Ginzburg, Bachelard, Shatz, de Beauvoir, Pallares-Burke, De Genova & Morales, Stob

Posted on August 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg, Dialogue avec Marc Bloch (a collection of his texts from various places); the critical edition of Gaston Bachelard, La rationalism appliqué; Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon; Simone de Beauvoir, Une fois que … Continue reading →

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Richard Fallon, Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology – Oxford University Press, April 2025

Posted on August 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Richard Fallon, Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology – Oxford University Press, April 2025 By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth’s … Continue reading →

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Samuel Mace, Carl Schmitt in the Middle East: Unstable Decisionism and the Failure of Political Orders – Palgrave Macmillan, August 2026

Posted on August 20, 2026 by stuartelden

Samuel Mace, Carl Schmitt in the Middle East: Unstable Decisionism and the Failure of Political Orders – Palgrave Macmillan, August 2026 This book presents a critical examination of Carl Schmitt’s political framework, particularly in the context of decisionist regimes in … Continue reading →

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Michael R. Griffiths, The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 20, 2026 by stuartelden

Michael R. Griffiths, The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 New Books discussion with Maths Frickhoeffer – thanks to dmf for the link The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought promises to transform a decades … Continue reading →

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The Foucault Century – Symposium 24-25 September 2026

Posted on August 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Speakers Sabeen AhmedAmy AllenVerena Erlenbusch-AndersonNiki Kasumi ClementsPenelope DeutscherDavid HalperinAmy HollywoodLynne HufferDaniele LorenziniDonovan Schaefer Register for each day separately Register: Sept 24 Register: Sept 25

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Jennifer C. James, Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery – Duke University Press, August 2026

Posted on August 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Jennifer C. James, Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery – Duke University Press, August 2026 Introduction open access at the above link Captive Ecologies makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery’s afterlife, tracing the complex entanglements between racial … Continue reading →

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Ian Hunter, The Kantian Religion – Princeton University Press

Posted on August 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Ian Hunter, The Kantian Religion – Princeton University Press, April/June 2026 Interview at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog with Rex Butler Thanks to Foucault News and dmf for the links Kantian philosophy is typically viewed as providing … Continue reading →

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Helen Deutsch, The Last Amateur: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature – University of Chicago Press, June 2026

Posted on August 18, 2026 by stuartelden

Helen Deutsch, The Last Amateur: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature – University of Chicago Press, June 2026 Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur argues for the transformative … Continue reading →

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