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Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program, trans. Kevin B. Anderson and Karel Ludenhoff – PM Press, October 2022

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program, trans. Kevin B. Anderson and Karel Ludenhoff – PM Press, October 2022 Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from … Continue reading →

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Jacques Lacan, Premiers écrits, Seuil, January 2023 [updated]

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Jacques Lacan, Premiers écrits, Seuil, January 2023 Avant que d’être psychanalyste, Lacan a été psychiatre. On n’aurait pas republié ses premiers écrits s’ils n’invitaient à une lecture après coup. Que nous apprennent-ils de la formation du futur analyste ? Sa … Continue reading →

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Books received – Blanchot, Lévi-Strauss, Hollier, Jackson, Barthes

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books bought for the Indo-European thought project, but also Mark Laurence Jackson, Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault: The Recluse of Architecture, in recompense for review work.

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Thomas S. Kuhn, The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science, edited by Bojana Mladenovic – University of Chicago Press, November 2022

Posted on December 22, 2022 by stuartelden

The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science, edited by Bojana Mladenovic – University of Chicago Press, November 2022 A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.  This … Continue reading →

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Anne-Marie Lewis – Celestial Inclinations – A Life of Augustus, Oxford University Press – May 2023

Posted on December 22, 2022 by stuartelden

Anne-Marie Lewis – Celestial Inclinations – A Life of Augustus, Oxford University Press – May 2023 Only a really expensive hardback listed, but this looks to be a major study.

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, War and Peace: On the Principle and Constitution of the Rights of Peoples, translated by Paul Sharkey, introduced by Alex Prichard – AK Press, August 2022

Posted on December 22, 2022 by stuartelden

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, War and Peace: On the Principle and Constitution of the Rights of Peoples, translated by Paul Sharkey, edited and introduced by Alex Prichard – AK Press, August 2022

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Marilyn Strathern, Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things, new ed. HAU, 2023 (and open access pdf)

Posted on December 21, 2022 by stuartelden

Marilyn Strathern, Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things, new ed. HAU, 2023 (paperback January 2023 and open access pdf now)

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Sally Sedgwick, Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit – Oxford University Press, March 2023

Posted on December 21, 2022 by stuartelden

Sally Sedgwick, Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit – Oxford University Press, March 2023 Just an expensive hardback listed at the moment, unfortunately. Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit examines a conspicuous feature of Hegel’s major works: … Continue reading →

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Clare Pettitt, Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 – Oxford University Press, June 2020, and review in Critical Inquiry

Posted on December 20, 2022 by stuartelden

Clare Pettitt, Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 – Oxford University Press, June 2020 I’m late to noticing this book, which looks interesting: Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkin and Oliver Davis (eds) New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy – Routledge, December 2022

Posted on December 20, 2022 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin and Oliver Davis (eds) New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy – Routledge, December 2022 Hardback and e-book, with two chapters open access What does ‘autonomy’ mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant for contemporary … Continue reading →

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