Author Archives: stuartelden

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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Roger Eberhard, Human Territoriality – Edition Patrick Frey, 2020

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Roger Eberhard, Human Territoriality – Edition Patrick Frey, 2020 Some of the book is available to view at the above link; some other photos at his website and the Robert Morat gallery. Borders are a means of separation. They separate … Continue reading →

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Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida – Verso, September 2020

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida – Verso, September 2020 Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies: New issue (2020)

Posted on October 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault Studies, Vol 1 No 28 (2020): Number 28, September 2020 The editors of Foucault Studies are pleased to publish this issue containing a review symposium of Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson’s “Genealogies of Terrorism” as well as…

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Vicki Squire, Europe’s Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity – Cambridge University Press, September 2020

Posted on October 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Vicki Squire, Europe’s Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity – Cambridge University Press, September 2020 Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, this book instead suggests that the ‘migration crisis’ reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 33: Completion of the manuscript, expanded table of contents, and moving into production

Posted on October 2, 2020 by stuartelden

In the last update on the writing of this book, back in May, I talked about how the impact of the coronavirus had made it impossible to complete the manuscript. At that time, it wasn’t clear when I would be able … Continue reading →

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A two week break from this blog and social media

Posted on September 18, 2020 by stuartelden

I’m taking a break from this blog, social media and anything online for two weeks. This blog has been fairly quiet recently, except for various things about the dangers of reopening campuses in the middle of a resurgence of cases, … Continue reading →

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Two new books on Gramsci in the Historical Materialism series

Posted on September 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Two new books on Gramsci in the Historical Materialism series with Brill. Francesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, Lorenzo Fusaro and Robert Jackson (eds.), Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks and Alvaro Bianchi, Gramsci’s Laboratory: Philosophy, History and Politics Both only expensive hardback and e-book at … Continue reading →

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