Author Archives: stuartelden

Thomas Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023

Posted on May 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Thomas Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023 Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, Noah’s Arkive – University of Minnesota Press, June 2023

Posted on May 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, Noah’s Arkive – University of Minnesota Press, June 2023 Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of animals, and … Continue reading →

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dalia Gebrial discuss prison abolition, racial capitalism, and critical geography – Verso podcast

Posted on May 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dalia Gebrial discuss prison abolition, racial capitalism, and critical geography on the Verso podcast:

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How Nietzsche came in from the Cold – Philipp Felsch’s book and a two-part interview

Posted on May 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Philipp Felsch’s book Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam [How Nietzsche came in from the cold] was mentioned at the workshop on translation and the archive yesterday. It’s a study of the two Italian editors and translators of Nietzsche, Colli and Montinari. … Continue reading →

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György Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness – 100 years on, an online collection of German and Russian reviews of and essays about the book

Posted on May 20, 2023 by stuartelden

From the Historical Materialism mailing list György Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, the book that has won him enthusiastic supporters and bitter enemies, was published 100 years ago. To mark the occasion, a collection of German and Russian reviews of and … Continue reading →

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Ian Hacking, Anthropologie philosophique et raison scientifique (2023)

Posted on May 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Ian Hacking, Anthropologie philosophique et raison scientifique, Textes réunis par Matteo Vagelli. Traduction de Aude Bandini, Vincent Guillin ,Marc Kirsch, Louis Quéré, Matteo Vagelli, Vrin, 2023. Présentation Des calculs de probabilité aux troubles de la…

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Claude Lévi-Strauss: the Fondation Loubat lectures 

Posted on May 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Update August 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. In the 1949-50 academic year, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave the Fondation Loubat lectures at the Collège de France. Although he was trying … Continue reading →

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Books received – Koyré, Foucault, Eliade & Pettazzoni, Axelos, Evans

Posted on May 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Alexandre Koyré’s Introduction à la lecture de Platon; the Eliade-Pettazzoni correspondence and Richard Evans’s biography of Eric Hobsbawm, all bought second-hand, along with Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World and Michel Foucault, Le discours philosophique, kindly sent by the … Continue reading →

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Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 – book symposium at The Disorder of Things

Posted on May 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 I’ve mentioned this book before. There is a book symposium being hosted by The Disorder of Things. Thanks to dmf for … Continue reading →

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Mona Domosh, Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South – University of Georgia Press, March 2023 (and seminar on May 16)

Posted on May 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Mona Domosh, Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South – University of Georgia Press, March 2023 A seminar on the book is being held online tomorrow – 16 May 2023 (details here; registration here). Apologies for the lack of notice. … Continue reading →

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