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Who translated Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things?

Posted on April 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Who translated Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things? The original English edition, published by Pantheon in 1970 (and Tavistock in the UK) has the title The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, and under the author name says “A … Continue reading →

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Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 and review at NDPR

Posted on April 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 review at NDPR by Sebastian Gardner A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s … Continue reading →

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David Bather Woods, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on April 4, 2025 by stuartelden

David Bather Woods, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with … Continue reading →

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G. Anthony Bruno, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant – Oxford University Press, March 2025

Posted on April 3, 2025 by stuartelden

G. Anthony Bruno, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant – Oxford University Press, March 2025 Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant is the first history of the concept of facticity. G. Anthony Bruno argues that this concept’s … Continue reading →

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Sam Chian, “Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University: C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in Postwar America”

Posted on April 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Sam Chian, “Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University: C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in Postwar America” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

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‘Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Speculative Philosophy: A Special Edition on the Thought of Gillian Rose’ – Thesis Eleven

Posted on April 2, 2025 by stuartelden

‘Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Speculative Philosophy: A Special Edition on the Thought of Gillian Rose‘ – Thesis Eleven, eds. Michael Lazarus and Daniel Andrés López Several papers, including a previously unpublished piece by Rose on Marx, are open access

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An interview with Achille Mbembe – video of the Holberg conversation

Posted on April 2, 2025 by stuartelden

An interview with Achille Mbembe – thanks to David Beer for the link Achille Mbembe received the 2024 Holberg Prize for his groundbreaking research in African history and politics, and related fields. Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at … Continue reading →

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André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott – Hau Books, February 2025 (open access)

Posted on April 1, 2025 by stuartelden

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott – Hau Books, February 2025 Now published – open access here A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translated into English … Continue reading →

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Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, 2nd edition, May 2025

Posted on April 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, 2nd edition, May 2025 War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated … Continue reading →

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Troubling Classical Bodies, Remarque Institute, New York University, 11 April 2025, 12.30pm and online – Brooke Holmes, Anurima Banerji and Stuart Elden

Posted on March 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Troubling Classical Bodies, Remarque Institute, New York University, 11 April 2025, 12.30pm and online – Brooke Holmes, Anurima Banerji and Stuart Elden I’ll be speaking about an aspect of my Indo-European project, on an early text by Émile Benveniste about … Continue reading →

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