Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

My first book, Mapping the Present is 20 years old…

Posted on October 4, 2021 by stuartelden

It was twenty years ago today that my first book, Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History was published. I received an advance on 4 October 2001. The contract was signed with Athlone, who became … Continue reading →

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William S. Lewis, Dialectical Method: Henri Lefebvre’s Philosophy of Science – Verso blog

Posted on June 28, 2021 by stuartelden

William S. Lewis, Dialectical Method: Henri Lefebvre’s Philosophy of Science at the Verso books blog. The Marxist philosopher and social scientist Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) authored over 60 books. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that some of these are less well-known … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Lefebvre and Althusser: reinterpreting Marxist humanism and anti-humanism

Posted on June 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Lefebvre and Althusser: reinterpreting Marxist humanism and anti-humanism at Monthly Review online

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 6: the state of the manuscript, limited work in libraries, and editing work on Lefebvre and Dumézil

Posted on June 1, 2021 by stuartelden

The big news for my Foucault work is the publication of The Early Foucault later this week. There is a piece on the Polity blog about the book here. But I’ve also been slowly working on the last of this … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre: The proclamation of the Commune 26th March 1871, translated by David Fernbach at the Verso blog

Posted on March 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre: The proclamation of the Commune 26th March 1871, translated by David Fernbach at the Verso blog Henri Lefebvre’s account of the ideology of the Paris Commune, newly translated into English… an extract from La Proclamation de la Commune: 26 … Continue reading →

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Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal, Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator – Verso, April 2021

Posted on March 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Norbert Guterman and Leo Löwenthal, Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator – Verso, April 2021 Foreword by Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, Introduction by Alberto Toscano Good to see this reissued by Verso. Among … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, From the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – a new collection of writings forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press, 2022

Posted on March 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton – Henri Lefebvre, From the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – a new collection of writings forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press, 2022 (cross-posted with Progress in Political Economy) Perhaps granted much less attention than it merits, … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by stuartelden

As with previous years, these are a list of academic books published this year which I read and appreciated. This means that good books which I haven’t yet read don’t feature, and I will of course miss many. Several of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Peeters, Benveniste, Biagi, Collard, Brighenti & Karrholm, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson, Hyppolite, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss and Eribon

Posted on November 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Alongside some books bought new or second-hand for the Foucault work and related projects, I was sent a copy of Rosemary Clare-Collard, Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade by the publisher, Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology … Continue reading →

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Dawn Lyon, Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods – Bloomsbury, December 2020

Posted on October 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Dawn Lyon, Rhythmanalysis: Research Methods – Bloomsbury, December 2020 First published as What is Rhythmanalysis?, this title is now available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. In recent years, there has been growing interest in Henri Lefebvre’s posthumously published … Continue reading →

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