Author Archives: stuartelden

Topical map of COVID-19 social research literature

Posted on July 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on This Sociological Life:
I have been busy checking out the explosion of peer-reviewed articles published recently in social science journals on the COVID crisis. I located over 120 such articles, and have conducted a rapid topic mapping…

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Gilles Deleuze, Letters and Other Texts (Semiotext(e)) June 23, 2020

Posted on July 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Philosophy of Movement:
A posthumous collection of writings by Deleuze, including letters, youthful essays, and an interview, many previously unpublished. Letters and Other Texts is the third and final volume of the posthumous texts of Gilles…

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Five letters from père Festugière to Michel Foucault (1956-1957), edited by Pierre Vesperini, Anabases (requires subscription)

Posted on July 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Pierre Vesperini,“« Un gentil mécréant, avec qui l’on entre aussitôt dans le seul monde qui compte »: Cinq lettres du père Festugière à Michel Foucault (1956-1957)”, Anabases 31, 2020, 125-130. André-Jean Festugière was known to me as the translator of … Continue reading →

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Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros – Columbia University Press, June 2020

Posted on July 20, 2020 by stuartelden

Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros – Columbia University Press, June 2020 What is the strange eros that haunts Foucault’s writing? In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Forestal, Menaka Philips (eds.), The Wives of Western Philosophy: Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor – Routledge, January 2021

Posted on July 17, 2020 by stuartelden

Jennifer Forestal, Menaka Philips (eds.), The Wives of Western Philosophy: Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor – Routledge, January 2021 The Wives of Western Philosophy examines the lives and experiences of the wives and women associated with nine distinct political thinkers—from … Continue reading →

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Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography – Palgrave, March 2020

Posted on July 17, 2020 by stuartelden

Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography – Palgrave, March 2020. Just hardback and e-book at present unfortunately. This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the … Continue reading →

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Martin Jay, Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations – Verso, July 2020, and discussion at New Books Network

Posted on July 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Martin Jay, Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations – Verso, July 2020. There is a discussion at New Books Network with Ryan Tripp. Thanks to dmf for this link. Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt … Continue reading →

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Francesco Biagi, Henri Lefebvre’s Critical Theory of Space – Palgrave, October 2020

Posted on July 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Francesco Biagi, Henri Lefebvre’s Critical Theory of Space – Palgrave, October 2020 Just an expensive hardback and not-much-cheaper e-book at present, unfortunately. Originally published in Italian and translated into English for the first time, Henri Lefebvre’s Critical Theory of Space offers … Continue reading →

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Hervé Guibert: Living Without a Vaccine (2020)

Posted on July 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Andrew Durbin Hervé Guibert: Living Without a Vaccine, New York Review of Books, June 12, 2020, Adapted from the introduction to a new edition of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My…

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Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity – University of Chicago Press, July 2020

Posted on July 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity – University of Chicago Press, July 2020. Speaking of Derrida, his text Geschlecht III, first published in French in 2018, edited by Geoffrey Bennington, Katie Chenoweth, and Rodrigo Therezo has now been translated by Katie … Continue reading →

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