Category Archives: People

Deleuze and Guattari Studies special issue on Space, Control, Resistance

Posted on November 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Deleuze and Guattari Studies special issue on Space, Control, Resistance – one essay open access, the others require subscription

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Foucault and Iran – a bibliography of previous publications and translations of the texts in ‘Iran, quand la terre tremble: reportage 1978-1979’

Posted on November 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault’s journalism and interviews about the Iranian revolution are well known. The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera commissioned him to write reports on what was happening during the revolution, based on two visits to the country in September and November 1978. He … Continue reading →

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Jacqueline Rose, Two Women – Fitzcarraldo, November 2026

Posted on November 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Jacqueline Rose, Two Women – Fitzcarraldo, November 2026 In Two Women, Jacqueline Rose fictionalizes and intertwines the lives of two remarkable figures whose stories trace the contours of the twentieth century: Edith Stein, the German-Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and saint; … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eribon, Senghor, Bilé, Foucault, Sartre, Deleuze, Bakhtin

Posted on November 3, 2026 by stuartelden

The 2026 edition of Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, with a new preface; Léopold Sédar Senghor, Œuvre poétique; Serge Bilé, Noirs dans les camps nazis; Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud; Jean-Paul Sartre, Carnets de la drôle … Continue reading →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Paul Sartre, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Isabel Jacobs and Jacob Saliba eds. Authority, History, and Political Theology: Collected Works and Correspondence of Alexandre Kojève and Gaston Fessard – Bloomsbury, August 2026 and interview at JHI blog

Posted on November 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Isabel Jacobs and Jacob Saliba eds. Authority, History, and Political Theology: Collected Works and Correspondence of Alexandre Kojève and Gaston Fessard – Bloomsbury, August 2026 Kojève and Fessard on Political Theology: An Interview with Isabel Jacobs and Jacob Saliba at … Continue reading →

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Should we teach Louis Althusser? Can we give a voice to Hélène Legotien?

Posted on November 1, 2026 by stuartelden

I’m teaching a level 3 option on European Political Theory again this term, for the first time in several years. ‘European’ is used loosely to designate a tradition, rather than all the theorists being European by citizenship. This allows me … Continue reading →

Posted in Hélène Legotien, Louis Althusser, Sunday Histories | 8 Comments

Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity –  Cornell University Press, June 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on October 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity –  Cornell University Press, June 2026 I’ve shared news of the book before. There is now a New Books discussion with Gina Stamm – thanks to dmf … Continue reading →

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Léopold Sédar Senghor as a Prisoner of War, and his Report on Conditions in Frontstalag 230

Posted on October 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) is known as a poet, one of theoreticians of négritude and the first President of Senegal. Senghor’s 1948 edited collection Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et Malgache de langue française[Anthology of new black and Malagasy … Continue reading →

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Nicholas Mulder, “Total Historian” – on Marc Bloch (and some of the recent publications by or on Bloch)

Posted on October 24, 2026 by stuartelden

Nicholas Mulder, “Total Historian” – on Marc Bloch. Thanks to dmf for the link As the piece indicates, Bloch’s entry into the Pantheon has seen several reissues or new publications, some of which are pictured above, and most of which … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg on his Life’s Work and the Writing of History – conversation with Emmanuelle Saada, 13 November 2024

Posted on October 24, 2026 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg on his Life’s Work and the Writing of History – conversation with Emmanuelle Saada, 13 November 2024

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