Category Archives: Jacques Derrida

Derrida, The Death Penalty reviewed in LARB

Posted on March 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Derrida’s The Death Penalty Volume I is reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Jan Mieszkowski. Thanks to those who sent me the link to this.

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Derrida Seminar Translation Project – details of published and forthcoming French and English volumes

Posted on March 1, 2014 by stuartelden

The Derrida Seminar Project has lots of information on the books in both French and English. Four volumes have been published so far in French: 1. Séminaire: La Béte et le souverain volume I (2001-2002), edited by Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet, … Continue reading →

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The Life Penalty: Foucault, Derrida, Bamber – abstract for a possible conference

Posted on February 26, 2014 by stuartelden

I have been asked if I’d be interested in speaking at a planned conference on ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishments’, which sounds intriguing, although somewhat outside of my usual research interests. At the moment it is not at all clear that … Continue reading →

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Martin McQuillan – Friends with Benefits: Shakespeare, Marx and Derrida – audio recording

Posted on February 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Martin McQuillan – Friends with Benefits: Shakespeare, Marx and Derrida – audio recording. The Kingston Shakespeare Seminar (KiSS) brings leading Shakespeare scholars to the Rose, which the director Peter Hall created to be a “teaching theatre”. Here Sir Peter directed … Continue reading →

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Works of twentieth-century theory that exist in new or revised translations – further examples wanted

Posted on January 20, 2014 by stuartelden

As I said I would last week, I’m preparing a detailed post on why we need a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, and was thinking of other major works of twentieth-century theory that exist in more than one translation. There … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lefebvre, Foucault, Agamben, animals, journals

Posted on January 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism (the 2009 edition with introduction by Stefan Kipfer); Lynne Huffer’s Mad for Foucault; Lynn Turner’s collection The Animal Question in Deconstruction; William Watkin’s Agamben and Indifference; Nicole Shukin’s Animal Capital; the new issue of RIPE; and the new … Continue reading →

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On Derrida’s 1964-65 course on Heidegger (review in French)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

A review (in French) of Derrida’s 1964-65 course Heidegger la Question de l’Être et l’Histoire. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for the link.

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The twenty-five most important academic books to me from 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Not ordered, not comprehensive, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten some – and of course there are those I’ve not yet read or am unaware of… These are all academic books published in 2013, not drawn from all the books I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Farrell Krell, David Harvey, Grégoire Chamayou, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, John Protevi, Karl Marx, Louise Amoore, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Universities, urban/urbanisation | 24 Comments

Christmas gifts for Critical Theorists

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

An excellent compendium at critical-theory.com. Here are a few favourites, but do look at the whole list.

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Derrida, The Death Penalty, Volume I

Posted on December 12, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve read some great books by Derrida, but the latest of his seminars, The Death Penalty, Volume I, is right up there with them. He is such a wonderful reader of texts. There is so much care, attention to detail, … Continue reading →

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