Author Archives: stuartelden

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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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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