Category Archives: Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida, Thinking What Comes, eds. Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi, two volumes, Edinburgh University Press, March 2024

Jacques Derrida, Thinking What Comes, eds. Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi, two volumes, Edinburgh University Press, March 2024 – volume 1; volume 2 In two volumes, Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi present the majority of Jacques Derrida’s untranslated, and previously uncollected, essays and interviews. … Continue reading

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Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism – SUNY Press, June 2024

Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism – SUNY Press, June 2024 – part of the SUNY Press Open Access series

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Books received – Binswanger & Warburg, Auffret, Foucault, Dumézil, Benveniste et. al, and Derrida

Some recently-bought books, mostly in Paris, including Foucault’s very early La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie and the most recently published seminar from Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. … Continue reading

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Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. Séminaire (1991-1992) – Seuil, February 2024

Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. Séminaire (1991-1992) – Seuil, February 2024 «Le secret, dit-on, c’est ce qui ne se dit pas » : c’est sur cette phrase que s’ouvre le séminaire Répondre – du secret, le tout premier de la série … Continue reading

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Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes of the seminar, November 2023 and April 2024

Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes, University of Chicago Press Volume I, translated by E. S. Burt, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, November 2023 Volume II, translated by Peggy Kamuf, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, April … Continue reading

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Charlotte Thevenet, Derrida et ses doubles – Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, November 2023

Charlotte Thevenet, Derrida et ses doubles – Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, November 2023 Qu’on la pourfende, la déplore ou la célèbre, l’obscurité du style de Derrida semble mettre d’accord disciples et adversaires du philosophe. Plutôt que de prendre parti, ce … Continue reading

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David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023

David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023 In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida … Continue reading

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Indo-European thought project update 9: Dumézil’s courses; Benveniste’s teaching records; Barthes, Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida; and a forthcoming article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Over the last month I have made some progress on a few different aspects of this project.  The main task in Paris was continuing working through the boxes of Georges Dumézil’s courses, held at the Collège de France archives. I’ve now … Continue reading

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Leroi-Gourhan, Person, Loyer, Soulier, Derrida

Mainly bought new and second-hand in Paris, but also A. Person, Directorship: Searching for Politics’ Copernican Moment, sent to me anonymously by the author.

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Books received – Sevilla-Buitrago, Saberi, TCS, Polity, Gaston,

Two excellent books I read in manuscript – Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Planning and Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto, the new special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Richard Polt, … Continue reading

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