Category Archives: Gillian Rose

Gillian Rose – a few links for the thirtieth anniversary

Today marks thirty years since Gillian Rose died so tragically young, at the age of just 48. I’ve shared these links before, but Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory, edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott, was … Continue reading

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Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law – University of Warwick, 3 December 2025

Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law – University of Warwick, 3 December 2025

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 29: working on Benveniste’s Vocabulaire, Dumézil’s Bilan and other work

I’ve been back in the UK for a few months, though I continue to work through the archival material I saw in the United States, some of which is in the form of notes, some photos of things, and a … Continue reading

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Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists

While I’ve been working on my Indo-European thought project, I’ve looked at a few books from the University of Warwick’s library which came from the Gillian Rose collection. Some of the books from that collection could not be borrowed – ones … Continue reading

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The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 – Swedenborg Hall, London, 18-19 June 2025

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 – Swedenborg Hall, London, 18-19 June 2025 ‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not’ – Rose’s discovery of Silouan the Athonite’s maxim provided the occasion for Love’s Work and guided its weaving … Continue reading

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Books received – Vendryes, Critique, Jakobson & Pomorska, Rose, Zerelli, Nabokov & Wilson, Koyré, Wikander, Jakobson & Fischer-Jørgensen

Mainly bought second-hand while in New York, but also the recent Critique issue on Canguilhem, the new translation of Stig Wikander, The Aryan Männerbund, and Linda M.G. Zerelli, A Democratic Theory of Truth.

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Fifteen ‘Sunday Histories’ on Progressive Geographies

There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the … Continue reading

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‘Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Speculative Philosophy: A Special Edition on the Thought of Gillian Rose’ – Thesis Eleven

‘Critical Theory, Aesthetics and Speculative Philosophy: A Special Edition on the Thought of Gillian Rose‘ – Thesis Eleven, eds. Michael Lazarus and Daniel Andrés López Several papers, including a previously unpublished piece by Rose on Marx, are open access

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Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique – University of Chicago Press, March 2025

Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique – University of Chicago Press, March 2025 The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, “theory” is often skeptical … Continue reading

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Gillian Rose articles in Thesis Eleven

Some new articles about Gillian Rose in Thesis Eleven Michael Lazarus, Economy and state: The politics of citizenship and universality in Gillian Rose, Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg – open access J.M. Bernstein, Reification in the age of climate catastrophe: … Continue reading

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