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PAIS to Launch Global Insights Panel Series reflecting on COVID-19 in collaboration with international partners in Canada, the US, Germany and Ethiopia

Posted on April 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Politics and International Studies at Warwick, along with partner institutions, is launching a Global Insights Panel Series reflecting on COVID-19 in collaboration with international partners in Canada, the US, Germany and Ethiopia. Registration required, but free and open to all, … Continue reading →

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“Foucault Was Always Much More Circumspect”: Stuart Elden on Foucault’s Politics and the Rediscovery of His Early Years – 2nd part of Journal of the History of Ideas interview

Posted on April 29, 2020 by stuartelden

The second part of my interview with Jonas Knatz and Anne Schult for the Journal of History of Ideas blog is now available – “Foucault Was Always Much More Circumspect”: Stuart Elden on Foucault’s Politics and the Rediscovery of His … Continue reading →

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Where to find British Library maps online

Posted on April 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Tom Harper has a list of where to find British Library maps online at the British Library Maps and Views blog.

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Marlon Salomon, Obituary, François Delaporte (1941 – 2019)

Posted on April 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Marlon Salomon, Obituary, François Delaporte (1941 – 2019) Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science (6) 2019: 115-123 DOI: 10.24117/2526-2270.2019.i6.11 Open access On the 28th of May, the French philosopher and historian of sciences,…

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Two new Sloterdijk translations from Polity – After God and Infinite Mobilisation

Posted on April 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Two new Sloterdijk translations from Polity – After God, translated by Ian Alexander Moore, and Infinite Mobilisation, translated by Sandra Berjan. Here’s the press description for After God. In his Critique of Cynical Reason, Peter Sloterdijk pursued an enlightenment of the … Continue reading →

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Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas from Discipline and Punish to the History of Sexuality

Posted on April 27, 2020 by stuartelden

Historicizing Foucault: Stuart Elden on Tracing Foucault’s Ideas from Discipline and Punish to the History of Sexuality – part 1 of a longer interview at the Journal of History of Ideas blog, conducted earlier this month. My thanks to Anne … Continue reading →

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Books received – Veyne, Dumézil, Bataille & Leiris, Eliade, Chapsal

Posted on April 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Trying to keep second-hand booksellers in business… a pile of recently bought books, including Paul Veyne’s memoirs, the English translation of the Bataille-Leiris correspondence, the first volume of Mircea Eliade’s journals, a collection of interviews by Madeleine Chapsal, and some … Continue reading →

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Mario Tronti, The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution in Marxism, edited and translated by Andrew Anastasi – Common Notions, September 2020

Posted on April 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Mario Tronti, The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution in Marxism, edited and translated by Andrew Anastasi – Common Notions, September 2020 Never before translated texts powerfully present Italian autonomist Marxist Mario Tronti’s resonance with contemporary questions of revolutionary … Continue reading →

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Samantha Rose Hill, Where to start with Hannah Arendt’s work

Posted on April 23, 2020 by stuartelden

People often ask me where they should start with Hannah Arendt's work. These are my most common suggestions. For those who want a taste before committing to the longer works: Politics: CrisesTheory: Between Past & FutureA sense of Arendt: Men … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkin, “So you want to read Michel Serres? Start here”

Posted on April 23, 2020 by stuartelden

A very useful reading guide from Christopher Watkin, author of the recently published Michel Serres: Figures of Thought from Edinburgh University Press. I recently received an email from someone wanting to get into Michel Serres’s writing in English translation, and asking … Continue reading →

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