Author Archives: stuartelden

Books received – Ginzburg, Mauss, Eliade, Goldstein, Brennan

Posted on April 6, 2022 by stuartelden

A couple by Carlo Ginzburg, including his new Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal, the Hau books edition of Marcel Mauss, The Gift, translated by Jane Guyer with additional material, an older book by Mircea Eliade, Jan Goldstein’s Foucault and the Writing of … Continue reading →

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Christopher Highley, Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theater, Church, and Neighbourhood – OUP, February 2022

Posted on April 5, 2022 by stuartelden

Christopher Highley, Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theater, Church, and Neighbourhood – OUP, February 2022 The latest book in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series: Blackfriars: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban … Continue reading →

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Foucault Lives. A Day Seminar on the Work and Legacy of Michel Foucault at University of Malta (2022)

Posted on April 4, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault Lives. A Day Seminar on the Work and Legacy of Michel Foucault Event:  Foucault Lives 2022 Date:    25 June 2022 Venue: Valletta Campus As he often said, Foucault never wanted his work to become…

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Ryan Johnson – Deleuze: A Stoic and The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter – Edinburgh University Press, February 2022 and February 2018

Posted on April 4, 2022 by stuartelden

Ryan Johnson – Deleuze: A Stoic, Edinburgh University Press, February 2022 Deleuze, A Stoic shows Deleuze’s engagement with Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas, reveals a lasting influence on Gilles Deleuze by mapping his provocative reading of … Continue reading →

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Elisabetta Basso, Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955 – Columbia University Press, September 2022

Posted on April 4, 2022 by stuartelden

Elisabetta Basso, Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955 – Columbia University Press, September 2022, translated by Marie Satya McDonough, foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt In the 1950s, long before his ascent to international renown, Michel Foucault published a … Continue reading →

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The Collège de Sociologie and Shakespeare, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare seminar, 9 April 2022 (online)

Posted on April 4, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
9 April 2022, 10am-6pm (UK) – The Collège de Sociologie and Shakespeare, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, online event. Pleased to share the details of this seminar, co-organised with Richard Wilson. The event is online, sadly, instead…

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The Early Foucault talk, the end of term and 3 million blog visits

Posted on March 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Today I enjoyed speaking about the work that went into The Early Foucault with the Genealogy in the Humanities project (Syracuse University and Cornell University). Thanks to Alex Livingston and Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for organising, and those who attended and asked questions. … Continue reading →

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Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State – OUP, April 2022 – and discussion at New Books Network

Posted on March 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State – OUP, April 2022 Disasters are all around us. In everyday parlance, disasters are understood as exceptional occurrences that destroy human life, property, and resources. For centuries, people … Continue reading →

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A brief history of Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero – on the Verso blog

Posted on March 18, 2022 by stuartelden

At the Verso books blog I have a piece tracing the history of Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero in the 1960s and 1970s From 1965 until 1980, Louis Althusser edited the Théorie series of books, each released by the … Continue reading →

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Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China – Allen Lane, January 2022 [paperback January 2023]

Posted on March 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China – Allen Lane, January 2022 [paperback January 2023 – UK; USA] China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations, yet just a century … Continue reading →

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