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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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Jacques Derrida, Le Calcul des Langues – Seuil, June 2020 – previously unpublished manuscript, edited by Geoff Bennington and Katie Chenoweth

Posted on July 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Le Calcul des Langues – Seuil, June 2020 News of a previously unpublished manuscript by Derrida, edited by Geoff Bennington and Katie Chenoweth. Texte énigmatique et entièrement inédit, Le Calcul des langues marque la première tentative de Jacques … Continue reading →

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Gilbert Humbert (1928-2020)

Posted on July 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Notice nécrologique sur Gilbert Humbert Patrick Négrier Gilbert Humbert, né en 1928, et compagnon de Michel Foucault en 1951, est décédé le 14 mai 2020. Ancien élève d’Olivier Messiaën, il eut une vie composite et…

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Les Cahiers du GRM – theme issue on Pratiques et expériences de l’enquête (open access – papers in English, French and Italian)

Posted on July 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Les Cahiers du GRM – theme issue on Pratiques et expériences de l’enquête – edited by Andrea Cavazzini (open access) Du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui, l’enquête militante a souvent joué le rôle d’un retour au réel par-delà les paradigmes théoriques et politiques … Continue reading →

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