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Paul Earlie, Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis – Oxford University Press, February 2021

Posted on February 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Paul Earlie, Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis – Oxford University Press, February 2021 In Derrida and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis, Paul Earlie offers a detailed account of the importance of psychoanalysis in Derrida’s thought. Based on close readings of texts … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Inheritance – Duke University Press, 2021 (open access Introduction)

Posted on February 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Inheritance – Duke University Press, 2021 Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the region where family’s ancestral alpine village is found. Far … Continue reading →

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Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy – Paris Institute for Critical Thinking Bookaholics #5

Posted on February 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy – Paris Institute for Critical Thinking Bookaholics #5 Converts to the Real was published by Harvard University Press in 2019. Our fifth interview is with Edward Baring, … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – University of Chicago Press, February 2021 (now published)

Posted on February 11, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt, University of Chicago Press, December 2020 [update: now listed as February 2021] Perhaps the most influential…

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Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, January 2021 (now published and open access introduction)

Posted on February 11, 2021 by stuartelden

Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, January 2021 In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. Harker traces the emergence … Continue reading →

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Etienne Balibar, “Critical Reflections on the New Definition of the Human Species”, Theory in Crisis seminar, 19 February 2021

Posted on February 11, 2021 by stuartelden

Etienne Balibar, “Critical Reflections on the New Definition of the Human Species“, Theory in Crisis seminar, 19 February 2021 , 4:00PM – 6:00PM (CET)  What is the role of critical theory today and who is it for? What kind of maps … Continue reading →

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Simon Brown, ‘Intellectual Journalism and Intellectual History’, Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Simon Brown, ‘Intellectual Journalism and Intellectual History‘, Journal of the History of Ideas blog In an interview at the Chronicle Review with the writer and teacher Maggie Doherty about academic humanities and public writing, I encountered a term for the first time that described … Continue reading →

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Harsha Walia, Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy, The Intercept

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy THE CELEBRATORY CLAMOR surrounding President Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation moratorium was short-lived, as a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the pause on deportation within a few days of its announcement. Even though … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality Volume IV, translated by Robert Hurley – Penguin, February 2021

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality Volume IV, translated by Robert Hurley, edited by Frédéric Gros – Penguin February 2021 (a translation of Les Aveux de la chair, Gallimard, 2018) The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Hyppolite, Balibar, Balibar & Wallenstein, Dumézil, Neocleous, Eliade, Benveniste

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books for the ongoing Foucault research and related projects, but also a copy of Mark Neocleous, A Critical Theory of Police Power, and Etienne Balibar, Passions du concept, sent by their authors.

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