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Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard update October 2025: the database is now available. Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Sadi Shanaah, The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society, and Countering Radicalization – Oxford University Press, June 2025

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Sadi Shanaah, The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society, and Countering Radicalization – Oxford University Press, June 2025 The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism explores how counter-radicalization policies have come to dominate European counterterrorism and security. … Continue reading →

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Eugenio Donato and “The Structuralist Controversy” conference – proceedings, recordings, Foucault and Flaubert

Posted on July 6, 2025 by stuartelden

The 18-21 October 1966 Baltimore conference on structuralism has long been recognised as important for the reception of French theory in the United States. Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Lucien Goldmann, Jean Hyppolite, Jacques Lacan and Jean-Pierre Vernant were some of … Continue reading →

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Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025

Posted on July 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025 This book concerns the elemental geographies and lives and deaths of the drowned to confront enduring forms of oppression. Elaine Stratford documents with penetrating compassion and acumen how human … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025

Posted on July 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025 How today’s dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty. The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has … Continue reading →

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“For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science”, Luca Sciortino, The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025 (open access)

Posted on July 4, 2025 by stuartelden

“For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science“, Luca Sciortino, The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025 On 21 November 2024, in Rome, the historian … Continue reading →

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Paulina Tambakaki, Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

Posted on July 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Paulina Tambakaki, Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

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Books received – Garber, Serres, Spanos, Bové & O’Hara, Trubetzkoy & Jakobson, Boulez

Posted on July 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, now in paperback; Michel Serres, Hermes II: Interference; the older collection The Question of Textuality: Strategies of Reading in Contemporary American Criticism; Nikolai Trubetzkoy’s correspondence with Roman Jakobson in French translation; and Pierre Boulez’s lectures … Continue reading →

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Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025

Posted on July 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025 For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication—the novels, biographies, … Continue reading →

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Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 and JHI blog interview

Posted on July 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 JHI blog interview with Alec Israeli The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created … Continue reading →

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