Category Archives: Gaston Bachelard

Books received – Ginzburg, Bachelard, Shatz, de Beauvoir, Pallares-Burke, De Genova & Morales, Stob

Posted on August 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg, Dialogue avec Marc Bloch (a collection of his texts from various places); the critical edition of Gaston Bachelard, La rationalism appliqué; Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon; Simone de Beauvoir, Une fois que … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Carlo Ginzburg, Frantz Fanon, Gaston Bachelard, Marc Bloch, Simone de Beauvoir | 1 Comment

Suzanne Bachelard – between Husserl’s Logic and the Philosophy of Science 

Posted on August 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Suzanne Bachelard (18 October 1919-3 November 2007) was the daughter of Gaston Bachelard. Her mother died in June 1920 when she was still an infant, and she was brought up by her father. She would sit in on his teaching … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Canguilhem (book), Edmund Husserl, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, Jacques Derrida, Jean Cavaillès, Jean Hyppolite, Michel Foucault, Sunday Histories, Suzanne Bachelard | Leave a comment

Books received – Dupuis-Déri, Drouet, Mbembe, Ginzburg, Connor, Lorenzini

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Mostly books I’ve mentioned here before – Francis Dupuis-Déri, Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull; Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance; Achille Mbembe, Brutalism; Carlo Ginzburg, Threads and Traces; … Continue reading →

Posted in Achille Mbembe, Carlo Ginzburg, Gaston Bachelard, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Suzanne Bachelard, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography – Reaktion, July 2025

Posted on August 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography – Reaktion, July 2025 A complete portrait of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, who plumbed both science and imagination. This is the first English biography of Gaston Bachelard, a philosopher who bridged the worlds … Continue reading →

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Books received – Agamben, Bachelard, Bloch, de la Durantaye, Wahl, Febvre, Braudel

Posted on July 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Books bought new or second-hand recently, including the recent biography and graphic novel Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant, and some older books. The Agamben books are for teaching next academic year – Where are we now? collects his pandemic writings, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Fernand Braudel, Gaston Bachelard, Giorgio Agamben, Jean Wahl, Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch | 1 Comment

Clémence Ramnoux – Mythology, Psychology, Philosophy

Posted on January 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Clémence Ramnoux (1905-1997) was an important French scholar of ancient Greece. She worked mostly on the pre-Socratics, especially Heraclitus. Alongside Simone Pétrement she was one of the first two women who entered the philosophy programme of the École Normale Supérieure in 1927. Simone Weil … Continue reading →

Posted in Clémence Ramnoux, Emile Benveniste, Gaston Bachelard, Jacques Lacan, Jean Gottmann, Jean Hyppolite, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

My favourite academic books of 2025

Posted on January 1, 2026 by stuartelden

A list of academic books I liked published in 2025, or late 2024, or in paperback this year. Many of the books I read this year were published years ago; some of the 2025 ones I’ve bought or have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Books, Boundaries, Clémence Ramnoux, Ernst Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Gaston Bachelard, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Gilles Deleuze, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Pierre Bourdieu, Theory, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Clémence Ramnoux, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Dumézil, Sigmund Freud, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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, Roger Caillois, 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