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Jacques Lacan, The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV, translated by Adrian Price – Polity, February 2021

Posted on February 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Jacques Lacan, The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV, translated by Adrian Price – Polity, February 2021 ‘The unfulfilled and unsatisfied mother around whom the child ascends the upward slope of his narcissism is someone real. She is … Continue reading →

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Stephen Houlgate, Hegel on Being – two volumes, Bloomsbury, October 2021

Posted on February 17, 2021 by stuartelden

Stephen Houlgate, Hegel on Being – two volumes, Bloomsbury, October 2021 Very expensive hardback and e-book at present, but this looks a major work. Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel’s entire logic of being. Stephen Houlgate presents the Science … Continue reading →

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Arlette Farge, Instants de Vie, with Clémentine Vidal-Naquet, Éditions EHESS, February 2021 (and discussion with Luc Darieaux)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Arlette Farge, Instants de Vie, presented by Clémentine Vidal-Naquet, Éditions EHESS, February 2021 Le XVIIIe?siècle d’Arlette Farge est sonore, odorant, tactile, à la fois familier et exotique, attachant. Elle a rencontré le peuple de Paris…

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Remigiusz Ryziński. Foucault in Warsaw (June 2021)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Remigiusz Ryziński. Foucault in Warsaw, Open Letter Books (Forthcoming, June 2021) The previously untold story of the plot to kick Michel Foucault out of Poland in the 1950s In 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland…

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Ben Clift, Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism, 2nd edition – Red Globe Press, 2021

Posted on February 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Ben Clift, Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism, 2nd edition – Red Globe Press/Macmillan, 2021 This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works. Modern economics strips away social, historical, and political context from analysis of ‘the … Continue reading →

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‘Michel Foucault and the Social Contract’, Stuart Elden, Mark Kelly and Christopher Watkin, 13 April 2021 (online seminar)

Posted on February 16, 2021 by stuartelden

On 13 April 2021, 6pm Melbourne/9am UK, I’ll be taking part in an online discussion on ‘Michel Foucault and the Social Contract‘ with Mark Kelly and Christopher Watkin, as part of a series looking at the social contract today. Full … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rose, Balibar, Martinet, Lévi-Strauss, Harker, Dumézil

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Books for the Foucault research, along with a few in recompense for review work for Verso, and Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine, sent by Duke University Press, and the new translation of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild … Continue reading →

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Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War – Princeton University Press, January 2020 – discussion at New Books Network

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War – Princeton University Press, January 2020 Discussion at New Books Network with Sharika Crawford In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and … Continue reading →

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Jean Hyppolite’s teaching at the Collège de France – ‘the history of philosophical thought’

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

The chair Foucault held at the Collège de France was previously occupied by Jean Hyppolite. Hyppolite had been Foucault’s teacher, was supervisor of his diploma thesis on Hegel and rapporteur for his secondary doctoral thesis on Kant’s Anthropology. Hyppolite succeeded … Continue reading →

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Harriet Hawkins, Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities – Routledge, 2021

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Harriet Hawkins, Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities – Routledge, 2021 This book explores the intersection of geographical knowledge and artistic research in terms of both creative methods and practice-based research. In doing so it brings together geography’s … Continue reading →

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