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The library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert, inventory online

Announcing the official launch of the Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard Announcement in French and English – thanks to Foucault News … Continue reading

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Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain” – Yale University Press, October 2025

Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain” – Yale University Press, October 2025 The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025 Now published Comment s’est constituée, à travers le temps, la … Continue reading

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J. Michael Cole, The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War – Polity, October 2025

J. Michael Cole, The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War – Polity, October 2025 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the … Continue reading

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Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 (print and open access) and two interviews

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 – hardback and open access available now; paperback in June 2026 Uncovers the nonhuman turn’s unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France … Continue reading

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Patricia Chiantera‐Stutte and Ulrike Jureit eds., Geo‐Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt – Routledge, November 2025

Patricia Chiantera‐Stutte and Ulrike Jureit eds., Geo‐Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt – Routledge, November 2025 Sorry to report that the price is prohibitively expensive. This book focuses on the geographical and geopolitical sources for Carl Schmitt’s multilayered political … Continue reading

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Timothy Middleton, Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma – Fordham University Press, November 2025

Timothy Middleton, Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma – Fordham University Press, November 2025 A crucial intervention at the intersection of ecotheology and trauma theology  We are in the midst of a global ecological crisis. At times, … Continue reading

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David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works – Verso, February 2026

David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works – Verso, February 2026 The world’s leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx’s masterwork For decades, David Harvey … Continue reading

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Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison – UCL Press, October 2025 (print and open access)

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison – UCL Press, October 2025 Available in print and open access. Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary … Continue reading

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Did Benveniste read Derrida’s Of Grammatology?

Jacques Derrida was certainly a careful reader of Émile Benveniste. He wrote a critique of Benveniste in “Le supplément de copule. La philosophie devant la linguistique” which appeared in 1971, in a special issue of Langages, “Épistémologie de la linguistique” edited … Continue reading

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