Category Archives: Gaston Bachelard

Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, Bachelard (avec des inédits de Clémence Ramnoux) – Éditions Rue d’Ulm, October 2025

Posted on October 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, Bachelard (avec des inédits de Clémence Ramnoux) – Éditions Rue d’Ulm, October 2025 Some excerpts available here; parts available online with subscription. Ramnoux’s Œuvres were published a few … 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 →

Posted in Albert Camus, Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Karl Jaspers, Kostas Axelos, Maurice Blanchot, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mircea Eliade, Pierre Klossowski, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Elisabetta Basso’s Young Foucault reviewed in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (behind paywall; some excerpts here)

Posted on January 18, 2023 by stuartelden

I have a review of Elisabetta Basso’s excellent Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955, translated by Marie Satya McDonough (Columbia University Press, 2022) in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The review is unfortunately … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaston Bachelard, Ludwig Binswanger, Michel Foucault | 2 Comments

Jean Cavaillès, The Second Davos University Conference with the Heidegger-Cassirer debate – new translation, and podcast

Posted on April 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Jean Cavaillès, The Second Davos University Conference – new translation at Urbanomic. This is the event where Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer had their debate. The translation is to mark the new translation of Jean Cavaillès, On Logic and the … Continue reading →

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Jean Cavaillès, On Logic and the Theory of Science – Urbanomic, 2021

Posted on March 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Jean Cavaillès, On Logic and the Theory of Science – Urbanomic, 2021 (UK sales; US sales) Translated by Knox Pedenand Robin Mackay. Preface by Gaston Bachelard. Introductory notice by Georges Canguilhem and Charles Ehresmann. Introduction by Knox Peden. In this … 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 →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Gaston Bachelard, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Jean Hyppolite, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey | 2 Comments

Correspondance entre Gaston Bachelard et Ludwig Binswanger – open access

Posted on January 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Correspondance entre Gaston Bachelard et Ludwig Binswanger – open access online It’s part of a special issue of Revue Germanique Internationale on ‘Histoire et philosophie de la psychiatrie au XXe siècle : regards croisés franco-allemands’, edited by Elisabetta Basso et … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, Canguilhem – Polity Key Contemporary Thinkers series, now published

Posted on February 25, 2019 by stuartelden

My study of George Canguilhem for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series is now released in the UK in both hardback and paperback. It should be available in North America and worldwide over the next couple of months. [Update April 23 … Continue reading →

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Canguilhem – book for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series, forthcoming 2019

Posted on July 20, 2018 by stuartelden

My study of Georges Canguilhem was resubmitted earlier this month. It’s now been accepted in final form and will appear in Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series in early 2019. As I’ve mentioned before, the book developed out of the work I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Logistical Worlds, Bachelard, Serres, Cremonesi et al, de Beistegui, Strang et al

Posted on June 21, 2018 by stuartelden

Logistical Worlds (sent by the publisher), Gaston Bachelard, The Dialectic of Duration, Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics, Laura Cremonesi et al eds, Foucault and the Making of Subjects (all recompense for review work), Miguel de Beistegui, The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the … Continue reading →

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