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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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Ludovico Silva, Marx’s Literary Style – Verso, January 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by stuartelden

Ludovico Silva, Marx’s Literary Style – Verso, January 2023 Update: Verso editor Sebastian Budgen comments on the book here A true understanding of Marx’s work requires a careful study of his literary choices

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Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023 Andy tells me the striking cover image is by André Kertész.

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Melissa Pawelski, “Between ‘Körper’ and ‘Leib’ – Translating Michel Foucault’s concept of the body after Friedrich Nietzsche”, Perspectives, 2022 (open access)

Posted on December 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Melissa Pawelski, “Between ‘Körper’ and ‘Leib’ – Translating Michel Foucault’s concept of the body after Friedrich Nietzsche“, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 2022 (open access) This article analyses the German words ‘Leib’ and ‘Körper’ that can both be … Continue reading →

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Two new Heidegger translations from Polity, December 2022

Posted on December 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Two new Martin Heidegger translations from Polity Metaphysics and Nihilism: 1 – The Overcoming of Metaphysics 2 – The Essence of Nihilism, trans. Arun Iyer On the Essence of Language and the Question of Art, trans. Adam Knowles

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Aaron Zielinski, The Imaginary Force of History: On Images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works (2022)

Posted on December 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Aaron Zielinski (2022) The Imaginary Force of History: On images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works, Critical Review, Published online: 09 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2151709 ABSTRACT In manuscripts and unpublished articles written in…

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Thomas Pynchon sells his archive

Posted on December 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
At The New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler reports that Thomas Pynchon has sold his archive to Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The article notes that the “archive includes 48 boxes —…

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