Category Archives: Edward Said

My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Carlo Ginzburg, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Doreen Massey, Edward Said, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Territory | 1 Comment

Books received – Ginzburg, Mauss, Eliade, Goldstein, Brennan

Posted on April 6, 2022 by stuartelden

A couple by Carlo Ginzburg, including his new Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal, the Hau books edition of Marcel Mauss, The Gift, translated by Jane Guyer with additional material, an older book by Mircea Eliade, Jan Goldstein’s Foucault and the Writing of … Continue reading →

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Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said – Bloomsbury, March 2021 – and discussion on BBC 3: Free Thinking

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Timothy Brennan, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said – Bloomsbury, March 2021 Rana Mitter talks to Timothy Brennan and the writers Ahdaf Soueif, Pankaj Mishra and Marina Warner on BBC 3: Free Thinking Drawing on extensive archival sources … Continue reading →

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Books received – Port-Royal, Gregory, Roussel, Dumézil, Said, Love

Posted on September 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Jeff Love’s biography of Alexandre Kojève, Edward Said’s Beginnings – both in recompense for review work, and some second-hand books for various things, mainly in relation to the Foucault work. Foucault introduced the Port-Royal Grammaire, and the issue of Langages … Continue reading →

Posted in Derek Gregory, Edward Said, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault | 1 Comment

Books received – Pelluchon, Eddé, Alarm Phone, Farrell Krell, Hoffmann, Miller, Jullien, Dumézil

Posted on January 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Books received – Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body; Dominique Eddé, Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel; 5 Years of Alarm Phone (also available as a free download); David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter; Marcelo Hoffmann, Militant … Continue reading →

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‘Edward Said’s ideas about power and identity still resonate today’ – CBC radio

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

‘Edward Said’s ideas about power and identity still resonate today’ – CBC radio interview from 1993. Edward Said is considered to have been one of the world’s most eminent cultural and literary critics. A Palestinian Christian Arab who moved to the … Continue reading →

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Naomi Klein, ‘Let them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World’ – video and text

Posted on August 2, 2016 by stuartelden

Naomi Klein, ‘Let them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World’ – the Edward W. Said lecture. Naomi Klein: Let them Drown – The Violence of Othering in a Warming World from The Mosaic Rooms on Vimeo. The … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Iran (and Ernst Bloch) – an August 1979 interview newly available in French

Posted on December 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to a reader who wishes to remain anonymous for sending me these details of an interview with Foucault about Iran conducted in August 1979, which was first published in French in 2013. I’ve stumbled upon an interview with Foucault from this era … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler and Cornel West – Honoring Edward Said video

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

A really interesting conversation between Butler and West on the tenth anniversary of Said’s death. Thanks to Sławek Królak for the link.

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