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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Posted on July 20, 2025 by stuartelden

This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in … Continue reading →

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Roger D. Woodard, Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia: Identifying Asian Influences – Cambridge University Press, August 2025

Posted on July 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Roger D. Woodard, Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia: Identifying Asian Influences – Cambridge University Press, August 2025

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Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025

Posted on July 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025 thanks to Foucault News for the link What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of … Continue reading →

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Tom Parr, Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation: Social Justice, Technology, and the Future of Work – Oxford University Press, June 2025

Posted on July 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Tom Parr, Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation: Social Justice, Technology, and the Future of Work – Oxford University Press, June 2025 Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation explores how labour market policymakers should respond to the threats and opportunities … Continue reading →

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Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault – Harmattan, two volumes, May 2025

Posted on July 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault – Harmattan, two volumes, May 2025 Tome I: De la guerre des races au racisme d’État Au fond de la politique, qu’y a-t-il sinon la guerre ? Et cette guerre, comment la … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 2 – updating the list of English translations of Oeuvres complètes on this site

Posted on July 15, 2025 by stuartelden

With the publication of Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949-51 (trans. Chris Turner, eds. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys), English readers now have access to all of the essays in volume 11 of Bataille’s Œuvres complètes and a good … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Vomero Santos, Shakespeare in Tongues – Routledge, June 2025

Posted on July 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Kathryn Vomero Santos, Shakespeare in Tongues – Routledge, June 2025 Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of “the language of Shakespeare” with English by examining the role Shakespeare’s works have played in overlapping histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration that … Continue reading →

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Books received – Denman, Jakobson, Harari, Derrida, Foucault, Fischer-Jørgensen

Posted on July 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Derek S. Denman, Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control, second-hand copies of Roman Jakobson, Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning, Josué V. Harari, Scenarios of the Imaginary, Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, Trends in Phonological Theory: A Historical Introduction, and … Continue reading →

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Two Greek Words for Kings and the Question of Territory: Wanax, Basileus and Émile Benveniste’s Vocabulaire

Posted on July 13, 2025 by stuartelden

In his Vocabulaire, the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society, Émile Benveniste mentions some questions relating to spatiality and territory that I have briefly surveyed here. One question he raised I said was worthy of further attention. In his French text, and its English … Continue reading →

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CFP: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy – June 2026

Posted on July 12, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy – June 2026 Discipline Filosofiche, XXXVI, 2, 2026: Foucault’s Archaeology: Sources, Questions and Legacy, ed. by Elisabetta Basso and Andrea Cavazzini In Michel Foucault’s published and unpublished writings, between Naissance de la Clinique … Continue reading →

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