Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Henri Lefebvre: Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of Land – project funding from the ISRF

Posted on March 4, 2016 by stuartelden

I’m pleased to announce that along with Adam David Morton (Political Economy, University of Sydney) I have been awarded a small grant from the Independent Social Research Foundation for the project ‘Henri Lefebvre’s writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics … Continue reading →

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – minor updates to the reading guide

Posted on February 29, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve made some very minor updates to the reading guide ‘Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?‘ The main update is a link to with a link to Benjamin Fraser’s second book on Lefebvre – Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and … Continue reading →

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Korean translations of Understanding Henri Lefebvre and Foucault’s Last Decade forthcoming

Posted on February 18, 2016 by stuartelden

Translations of Understanding Henri Lefebvre and Foucault’s Last Decade are forthcoming in Korean with Kyungsung University Press and Nanjang Publishing House respectively. These might be the first of my authored books to appear in translation, since potential translations of The Birth of Territory into … Continue reading →

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2015 in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to ‘best-of’ lists

Posted on December 31, 2015 by stuartelden

I began 2015 with the manuscript of a book under the title Foucault’s Last Decade close, I thought, to completion. But it was far too long. In the end, I cut the first two long chapters out, and submitted a book … Continue reading →

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Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield

Posted on December 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Antipode Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield. This piece discusses Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in English translation with Verso. I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, … Continue reading →

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Today’s writing task – beginning work on a preface to Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist Thought and the City

Posted on October 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Today’s writing task – beginning work on a preface to Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist Thought and the City, forthcoming in late 2016 with University of Minnesota Press.

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – updates to the reading guide: Metaphilosophy, Marxist Thought and the City, and two edited collections

Posted on October 9, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve made some minor updates to the reading guide ‘Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?‘ The updates are a link to the Verso page for the forthcoming translation of Metaphilosophy and links to two recent collections Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies and Urban … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Brown, Golder, Ashgate, etc.

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

A pile of recently bought, earned or complimentary books: Foucault’s The Punitive Society, Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos, Ben Golder’s Foucault and the Politics of Rights, four books in recompense for review work for Ashgate, and recent issues of Theory, Culture & Society and Transactions … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in February [now July] 2016 – Verso page and available to pre-order

Posted on September 28, 2015 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, translated by David Fernbach and edited and introduced by Stuart Elden, is forthcoming in February July 2016. Verso’s page for the book is now live and it is available to pre-order. In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Nail, Wikileaks, RIS, Leibniz, Groupe Information Santé

Posted on September 28, 2015 by stuartelden

A real mix of stuff – a collection edited by Lefebvre on Fourier, Thomas Nail’s The Figure of the Migrant (which I endorsed and mentioned last week); the new issue of Review of International Studies; Verso’s new book The Wikileaks Files; an offprint of an … Continue reading →

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