Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, Senate House, London, 19 May 2023 – organised by Henry Somers-Hall with Julia Ng, Alan Schrift, Daniel Smith, Charles Stivale and Stuart Elden

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

On 19 May 2023 I’ll speaking at a workshop on Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition, organised by Henry Somers-Hall for Royal Holloway, University of London. It will be held in central London at Senate House. Registration is … Continue reading →

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Julian Roche, Marxism and Real Estate: Taking Lefebvre Seriously – Routledge, September 2023

Posted on March 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Julian Roche, Marxism and Real Estate: Taking Lefebvre Seriously – Routledge, September 2023 Intriguing, but a truly ridiculous price of £140! This book straddles two worlds and attempts to bring them together: that of Lefebvre’s Marxism on the one hand, and … Continue reading →

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La Pensée 410 – special issue on Henri Lefebvre

Posted on January 13, 2023 by stuartelden

La Pensée 410 – special issue on Henri Lefebvre Les 24 et 25 mars 2022 s’est tenu à Paris un colloque, organisé par La Pensée, le Groupe d’études du matérialisme rationnel et la Fondation Gabriel Péri, consacré à l’étude et à l’hommage … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Carlo Ginzburg, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Doreen Massey, Edward Said, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Territory | 4 Comments

Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023 Andy tells me the striking cover image is by André Kertész.

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Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural – 40% off outside the Americas

Posted on December 6, 2022 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural is currently available at 40% off outside the Americas from Combined Academic Publishers. You need to sign up to their newsletter to access the sale.

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Two new reviews of Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)

Posted on December 5, 2022 by stuartelden

Two new reviews of Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) Caleb Gallemore in New Political Science Joseph Pierce in Economic Geography Both require subscription, unfortunately. Here’s the start of Pierce’s review: Stuart Elden … Continue reading →

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Parts of Georges Bataille’s library for sale (and a fascinating downloadable catalogue and inventaire)

Posted on November 5, 2022 by stuartelden

Parts of Georges Bataille’s library are for sale – story here. As you’d expect, things are rather expensive… A catalogue is available to buy – La bibliothèque de Georges Bataille – and to download as pdf here. petit in-4, broché, … Continue reading →

Posted in Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Pierre Klossowski | 3 Comments

Gérard Deledalle and Denis Huisman (eds), Les philosophes français d’aujourd’hui par eux-mêmes: autobiographie de la philosophie française contemporaine, 1963 (table of contents)

Posted on November 4, 2022 by stuartelden

Given the interest in the collection Gérard Deledalle and Denis Huisman (eds), Les philosophes français d’aujourd’hui par eux-mêmes: autobiographie de la philosophie française contemporaine, 1963, which I mentioned in the previous post, from which the Lefebvre piece at the Verso blog … Continue reading →

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“I am not a good Communist” – Henri Lefebvre’s Autobiography from 1957, translated by David Fernbach at the Verso blog

Posted on November 4, 2022 by stuartelden

“I am not a good Communist” – Henri Lefebvre’s Autobiography from 1957, translated by David Fernbach at the Verso blog Thanks to Adam David Morton for the alert to this. The original was in a collection of autobiographical sketches by … Continue reading →

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