Monthly Archives: August 2026

Simone de Beauvoir, Une fois que les femmes ont ouvert les yeux: Écrits et paroles féministes (1947-1985) – Gallimard, April 2026

Posted on August 17, 2026 by stuartelden

Simone de Beauvoir, Une fois que les femmes ont ouvert les yeux: Écrits et paroles féministes (1947-1985) – Gallimard, April 2026 Publier aujourd’hui les Écrits et paroles féministes (1947-1985), c’est rappeler que Le Deuxième Sexe n’a été qu’un commencement. Pendant près de quarante … Continue reading →

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Suzanne Bachelard – between Husserl’s Logic and the Philosophy of Science 

Posted on August 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Suzanne Bachelard (18 October 1919-3 November 2007) was the daughter of Gaston Bachelard. Her mother died in June 1920 when she was still an infant, and she was brought up by her father. She would sit in on his teaching … Continue reading →

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Giorgio Agamben, The Time of Thinking: The Le Thor Seminars with Heidegger (1966 and 1968), trans. Francesco Guercio and Ian Alexander Moore, Seagull, January 2027

Posted on August 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, The Time of Thinking: The Le Thor Seminars with Heidegger (1966 and 1968), trans. Francesco Guercio and Ian Alexander Moore, Seagull, January 2027 A glimpse into philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s formative encounter with Martin Heidegger, told through his notes from the Le Thor … Continue reading →

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Matthew Ritger, Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England – University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Matthew Ritger, Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England – University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2026 New Books network discussion with Jane Degenhardt The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most … Continue reading →

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Three Foucault books in new editions from Gallimard – to coincide with his 100th birthday

Posted on August 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Les Aveux de la chair: Histoire de la sexualité IV, ed. Frédéric Gros, Gallimard Tel, September 2026 Les Aveux de la chair, quatrième et dernier volume d’une Histoire de la sexualité, est en réalité le premier auquel Michel Foucault s’était attelé … Continue reading →

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Andres Saenz de Sicilia, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society – Brill, November 2024, paperback Haymarket, November 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Andres Saenz de Sicilia, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society – Brill, November 2024; paperback Haymarket, November 2025 New Books discussion with Elliot Dolan-Evans – thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading →

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Alex Gekker, Maps as Media – Polity, July 2026

Posted on August 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Alex Gekker, Maps as Media – Polity, July 2026 Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on our screens. Using a GPS while driving, looking for a shop on Google Maps, or … Continue reading →

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Andrew Littlejohn, We Live with the Sea: Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan – Duke University Press, July 2026

Posted on August 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrew Littlejohn, We Live with the Sea: Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan – Duke University Press, July 2026 Introduction open access at the above link In We Live with the Sea, Andrew Littlejohn addresses the implementation and controversy surrounding safety infrastructures … Continue reading →

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Ming Dong Gu, The Fusion of Intellectual Horizons in Chinese and Western Thought – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026

Posted on August 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Ming Dong Gu, The Fusion of Intellectual Horizons in Chinese and Western Thought – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026 Offers a convergence of ideas as the basis for a contemporary universalism with global values Ming Dong Gu bridges the divide … Continue reading →

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Charles Lincoln, Gods, Judges and Presidents: Trifunctional Archetypes in American Law and Government – Bloomsbury, August 2026

Posted on August 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Charles Lincoln, Gods, Judges and Presidents: Trifunctional Archetypes in American Law and Government – Bloomsbury, August 2026 Charles Lincoln interprets the U.S. Constitution through the mythic and psychological lens of Georges Dumézil’s trifunctional framework-priest, warrior, and producer-linking it to thinkers … Continue reading →

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