Author Archives: stuartelden

Juliet J. Fall, “Dear Carl”: thinking visually and geographically about public figures – Geographica Helvetica (open access)

Posted on October 16, 2020 by stuartelden

I don’t often share journal articles, but this is an interesting and innovative piece which is also available open access, on the contested legacy of Carl Vogt. Juliet J. Fall, “Dear Carl”: thinking visually and geographically about public figures – … Continue reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt interview on Critique and Praxis

Posted on October 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Bernard E. Harcourt is interviewed about his new book Critique and Praxis (Columbia University Press, 2020) here. Q. How did you come up with the idea for this book? A. The times of crisis that we live in, to be frank—that’s what … Continue reading →

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Lewis Coyne, Hans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility – Bloomsbury, October 2020

Posted on October 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Lewis Coyne, Hans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility – Bloomsbury, October 2020 Hans Jonas (1903–1993) was one of the most important German-Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Martin Heidegger and close friend of Hannah … Continue reading →

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Books received – Montinari, Dumézil, Othmani, Lazreg, Deleuze, Watkin, BNF

Posted on October 15, 2020 by stuartelden

All bought this time, mainly for the ongoing Foucault work. Marnia Lazreg’s Foucault’s Orient is now in paperback, and finally got a copy of Christopher Watkin’s Michel Serres: Figures of Thought. Ahmed Othmani was one of Foucault’s students in Tunisia, … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur (2020)

Posted on October 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel Observateur. Critical Inquiry Volume 47, Number 1, 2020. Translated and introduced by Sabina Vaccarino Bremner. Abstract An interview with Michel Foucault…

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Veronica della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor – University of Chicago Press, December 2020

Posted on October 7, 2020 by stuartelden

Veronica della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor – University of Chicago Press, December 2020 The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists’ and mapmakers’ visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to … Continue reading →

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Hans Blumenberg seminar series, University College Oxford (online)

Posted on October 6, 2020 by stuartelden

Hans Blumenberg seminar series, University College Oxford (online) The Hans Blumenberg Seminars (Convener: Audrey Borowski) mark the centenary of Hans Blumenberg’s (1920–1996) birth and provide an occasion to revisit some aspects of his life and thought. Univ’s Nicholas Halmi, Margaret … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hadot, Nail, TCS on Barthes, Eco, Ewald, Billé

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books waiting for me in the office – The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, Thomas Nail, Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion, the Theory, Culture & Society special issue on Neutral Life/Late Barthes, Umberto Eco, The Role of the … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 3: Early versions of some texts, the Port-Royal Grammar, Foucault’s work on literature, Bataille and Nietzsche, and a writing break in Wales

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

A lot of the time recently has been spent revising The Early Foucault, but that is now done, and in the run-up to term I spent a bit of time on this manuscript. Ordinarily I’d have had to spend this time preparing teaching, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Tesserach, Lévi-Strauss, Propp, Lukács, Ginzburg, Amoore, Dumézil, Harcourt, Sarkis

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought second-hand, and some others from publishers, including Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics; Bernard Harcourt, Critique and Praxis and Hashim Sarkis, Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Gabriel Kozlowski, The World as an Architectural Project.

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