Author Archives: stuartelden

Archived Key Thinkers from 2nd Edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place (open access)

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

This is a good innovation. The third edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place updates many entries from earlier editions, removes some and adds many entirely new ones. The editors have made the removed entries available online open access. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Koyré, Meillet, Gilmartin, Hubbard, Kitchin and Roberts, and Foucault

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre’s Modern Times, older second-hand books by Alexandre Koyré and Antoine Meillet, the new edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, and Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024. I am one of the new … Continue reading →

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Uday Chandra, Resistance as Negotiation: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India – Stanford University Press, June 2024

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Uday Chandra, Resistance as Negotiation: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India – Stanford University Press, June 2024 “Tribes” appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts … Continue reading →

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A detailed comparison of Michel Foucault’s Two Texts on Georges Canguilhem

Posted on June 24, 2024 by stuartelden

In 1978, Foucault contributed an introduction to the English translation of Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological. The French version is included in Dits et écrits as text 219. (No translator is indicated, which suggests the editors had access to the original … Continue reading →

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Cary J Nederman & Guillaume Bogiaris (eds.), Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought – Edward Elgar, 2024

Posted on June 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Cary J Nederman & Guillaume Bogiaris (eds.), Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought – Edward Elgar, 2024 This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical … Continue reading →

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Peter E. Gordon, A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 (and podcast interview)

Posted on June 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Peter E. Gordon, A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness. “Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a … Continue reading →

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Commentaries on Perry Anderson’s Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State

Posted on June 23, 2024 by stuartelden

John Breuilly, Introduction The three texts published here were written in the mid-1970s…. Here I explain how these came about. Back in 1974, I was teaching on a Modern Politics and History degree at Manchester. This involved modern historians from the … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations – beginning of a list of essays and translations

Posted on June 22, 2024 by stuartelden

I previously grumbled about how hard it was to navigate Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. I went looking for an essay in the French, only to find it was in one volume of the original edition and a different volume of the revised edition. I … Continue reading →

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Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things – Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024 

Posted on June 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things – Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024  I almost missed this, given the subtitle, but Gandal was one … Continue reading →

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Marco Filoni and Massimo Palma (eds.), Tyrants at Work: Philosophy and Politics in Alexandre Kojève – Editions ETS, 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by stuartelden

Marco Filoni and Massimo Palma (eds.), Tyrants at Work: Philosophy and Politics in Alexandre Kojève – Editions ETS, 2024 (print and open access) This volume wants to restore the depth and contradictions – both theoretical and biographical, political and speculative – of … Continue reading →

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