Category Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024

Posted on April 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et je n’ai écrit sur Nietzsche qu’un tout … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christian Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023

Posted on December 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christiane Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023 This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche’s unpublished notes from late 1879 to … Continue reading →

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The 13/13 Essays – material linked to the seminars of The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

Posted on December 9, 2023 by stuartelden

For several years Bernard Harcourt and colleagues at The Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought have been running a series of 13/13 seminars. The seminars usually have short essays by participants available online, and now they are being collected on … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille correspondence – taking a look at the bound volumes at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Posted on November 16, 2023 by stuartelden

A lot of letters to and from Georges Bataille have been published (for example, here), but the two bound volumes of correspondence at the Bibliothèque nationale are still something to behold. Given how much of his library and correspondence has … Continue reading →

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Books received – Renou, Althusser, Safransky, Zumwalt, Woodard

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the Indo-European project, along with Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, sent by Duke University Press. The Rosemary LévyZumwalt book is the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1939 book on Nietzsche and the ‘Liste Otto’ – which books of his were banned?

Posted on July 3, 2023 by stuartelden

About twenty years ago, in an essay on Henri Lefebvre, I said that his book on Nietzsche (1939) was on the prohibited ‘Liste Otto’. These were books that had to be removed from sale, and existing copies destroyed, after the … Continue reading →

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Edgar Landgraf, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism – University of Minnesota Press, September 2023

Posted on June 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Edgar Landgraf, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism – University of Minnesota Press, September 2023 While many posthumanists claim Nietzsche as one of their own, rarely do they engage his philosophy in any real depth. Nietzsche’s Posthumanism addresses this need by exploring the continuities and disagreements … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ – *open access until mid-June*

Posted on June 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini A reminder that all papers are open access until mid June 2023 – after that date only a few … Continue reading →

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Books received – Chestov, Nietzsche, Ginzburg, Rose, Spotts, Bataille

Posted on May 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books – Léon Chestov’s L’idée de bien chez Tolstoï et Nietzsche (Bataille was one of the translators); the two most recent volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Carlo Ginzburg’s The Judge and the Historian; Gillian Rose, Judaism … Continue reading →

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