Author Archives: stuartelden

Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis (eds.), Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Manchester University Press, February 2023

Posted on March 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis (eds.), Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Manchester University Press, February 2023 Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused … Continue reading →

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Claire Rydell Arcenas, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life – University of Chicago Press, 2022

Posted on March 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Claire Rydell Arcenas, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life – University of Chicago Press, 2022 The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on … Continue reading →

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Stephen Legg, Roundtable Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London – Cambridge University Press, March 2023

Posted on March 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Stephen Legg, Roundtable Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London – Cambridge University Press, March 2023 Just an expensive hardback at present, unfortunately. Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India’s constitutional … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, edited by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, May 2023

Posted on February 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, edited by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, May 2023 This is a previously unpublished manuscript, probably from 1966, written after The Order of Things and before or alongside early work on what became … Continue reading →

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Books received – Leroi-Gourhan, Blanchot, Vogl, Ungar, Heidegger, Bobic and Haghighi

Posted on February 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books connected in part to the ongoing research on Indo-European though in France, the latest volume of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe and copies of Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short History of the Present and Nikolina Bobic and … Continue reading →

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Archive: Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (audio recording and other links)

Posted on February 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Richard Sennett and Michel Foucault, Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979) New Books Network, 2 Feb 2023. [See site for recording] In 1979, sociologist and NYIH founder Richard Sennett, and philosopher Michel Foucault,…

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Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, April 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, trans. Michael Chase, April 2023 The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot’s final work, now available in English.With a foreword by Arnold I. … Continue reading →

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Andrew Curley, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo – University of Arizona Press, April 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrew Curley, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo – University of Arizona Press, April 2023 For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation’s largest coal plants closed. … Continue reading →

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Alain Corbin, A History of the Wind, trans. William Peniston – Polity, November 2022

Posted on February 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Alain Corbin, A History of the Wind, trans. William Peniston – Polity, November 2022 Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing … Continue reading →

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Sida, prisons, décolonisation : la vie militante de Daniel Defert (2023)

Posted on February 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Sida, prisons, décolonisation : la vie militante de Daniel Defert, France Culture (radio), fév 2023. © Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons – cc-by-sa-3.0, Aucun(e) À propos de la série Une série d’entretiens proposée par Virginie…

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