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The Archaeology of Foucault, Turkish translation by Duygu Yurttașen – Foucault’nun Arkeolojisi, Ayrinti, 2026

My 2023 book The Archaeology of Foucault has been translated into Turkish – Foucault’nun Arkeolojisi, trans. Duygu Yurttașen, Istanbul: Ayrinti, 2026. The cover uses one of the images from Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Le Carceri d’Invenzione. Some of the other books in my … Continue reading →

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Iulian Apostolescu ed. The Play of Being: New Perspectives on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenological Project – Brill, October 2026

Iulian Apostolescu ed. The Play of Being: New Perspectives on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenological Project – Brill, October 2026 The aim of this collection of essays is to explore Eugen Fink’s legacy and the potentialities of his phenomenological project for contemporary … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem, Saggi di epistemologia e storia della scienze, ed. Giuseppe Sertoli, intro. Raffaele Grandoni – Edizioni ETS, September 2026

Georges Canguilhem, Saggi di epistemologia e storia della scienze, ed. Giuseppe Sertoli, intro. Raffaele Grandoni – Edizioni ETS, September 2026 Pleased to see this collection published, one which Canguilhem himself originally conceived for an Italian audience, with an introduction by … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre, Cours de philosophie de terminale pris sous la dictée par son élève Maurice Mermet. Lycée Condorcet, 1942-1943, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, September 2026

Jean-Paul Sartre, Cours de philosophie de terminale pris sous la dictée par son élève Maurice Mermet. Lycée Condorcet, 1942-1943, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, September 2026 Maurice Mermet a seize ans à la rentrée scolaire de 1942. Venu de Lyon, il … Continue reading →

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Giulia Bernard, Bojana Jovicevic and Karen Koch eds. Hegel and Feminism – Bloomsbury, October 2026

Giulia Bernard, Bojana Jovicevic and Karen Koch eds. Hegel and Feminism – Bloomsbury, October 2026 Whilst much previous writing on Hegel has focused on his social and political philosophy, this volume makes it clear that feminist issues are relevant to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bagnato, Mandrou, Ginzburg, Puaud, Favret-Saada, Wilson

Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape; Robert Mandrou, From Humanism to Science 1480-1700; Carlo Ginzburg, Fear Reverence Terror; David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse, Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 … Continue reading →

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Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain – Edinburgh University Press, October 2026

Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain – Edinburgh University Press, October 2026

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Working with the Michel Foucault archives – a brief guide to what is in Paris, Normandy, Berkeley and elsewhere

I am sometimes contacted by people who want advice about working with Michel Foucault’s archives. Although I’m generally happy to try to help, and there are others who are better placed to advise on specifics, I thought it might be … Continue reading →

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Silvia Federici, The Development of Lukacs’ Realism – Minor Compositions, April 2027 (print and open access)

Silvia Federici, The Development of Lukacs’ Realism – Minor Compositions, April 2027 (print and open access) Thanks to Adam David Morton for the link. Open access pdf available now. An unpublished early text that shows Silvia Federici working through questions … Continue reading →

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Michel Serres, Hermes IV: Distribution – trans. Randolph Burks – University of Minnesota Press, December 2026

Michel Serres, Hermes IV: Distribution – trans. Randolph Burks – University of Minnesota Press, December 2026 How order, meaning, and knowledge emerge from noise across science, literature, and philosophy Hermes IV: Distribution is the fourth and penultimate volume in Michel Serres’s … Continue reading →

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