Category Archives: Alain Badiou

A brief history of Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero – on the Verso blog

Posted on March 18, 2022 by stuartelden

At the Verso books blog I have a piece tracing the history of Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero in the 1960s and 1970s From 1965 until 1980, Louis Althusser edited the Théorie series of books, each released by the … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero – list of published volumes and English translations

Posted on February 3, 2022 by stuartelden

In the 1960s and 1970s Louis Althusser edited a series at the radical publisher François Maspero. Many of the books published were by his former students including Pierre Macherey, Étienne Balibar, Alain Badiou, Emmanuel Terray and others. There were some … Continue reading →

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Books received – Althusser, Pécheux and Fichant, Badiou, Terray, Balibar, Kristeva, Epstein, Danchev

Posted on January 24, 2022 by stuartelden

Some books by Althusser and his then-students – some of which I talk about here – along with Etienne Balibar’s Violence and Civility, a couple by Julia Kristeva, Charlotte Epstein’s Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – publications and online archive

Posted on January 20, 2022 by stuartelden

Between 1967 and 1968. Louis Althusser and some of his students delivered a course at the ENS pitched as philosophy for scientists or non-philosophers. Some parts of the course have been published, including Alain Badiou’s Le concept du modèle in … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 10: cycling in Wales, work on The Order of Things, Nietzsche and a short trip to Paris

Posted on October 1, 2021 by stuartelden

In the last part of the summer I was able to make some good progress on this manuscript. In late August and early September I had two-week writing and cycling break in Wales. The weather was good until the last … Continue reading →

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Jean Hyppolite’s teaching at the Collège de France – ‘the history of philosophical thought’

Posted on February 15, 2021 by stuartelden

The chair Foucault held at the Collège de France was previously occupied by Jean Hyppolite. Hyppolite had been Foucault’s teacher, was supervisor of his diploma thesis on Hegel and rapporteur for his secondary doctoral thesis on Kant’s Anthropology. Hyppolite succeeded … Continue reading →

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Books received (1) – Badiou, Stimilli, Eliade, Rosenberg & Westfall, Duby, Heidegger, Turner

Posted on December 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work for Bloomsbury, James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities and a second-hand copy of Georges Duby, The Three Orders.

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken, Mill, Rancière, Badiou, Salmon, Sirinelli

Posted on December 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently for the Foucault work, related projects and J.S. Mill for teaching. I’m teaching the history of political thought again this year, and while I have most of the texts we’re using, didn’t have Mill’s Considerations on … Continue reading →

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Alain Badiou – the film, directed by Gorav and Rohan Kalyan

Posted on May 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Badiou – the film, directed by Gorav and Rohan Kalyan (more details here)

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Michele Lancione and Abdoumaliq Simone, David Harvey, Alain Badiou, Panagiotis Sotiris, William Davies and Angela Last on Covid-19

Posted on March 24, 2020 by stuartelden

A few pieces by geographers, sociologists and philosophers – presented without commentary [Update: an updated list is available here – thanks to people for sending additional links. I’ll try to keep that page updated as I see more] Michele Lancione and Abdoumaliq … Continue reading →

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