Category Archives: Jacques Derrida

Josué V. Harari, the Marquis de Sade, and Michel Foucault’s 1970 lectures in Buffalo

Posted on June 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Josué V. Harari plays a small but important role in the story of Foucault in the United States. A PhD researcher at the University at Buffalo when Foucault visited in the early 1970s, he went on to edit a 1979 volume … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edward Said, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Pierre Klossowski, Roland Barthes, Sunday Histories | 6 Comments

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 28: archives in Princeton, Chicago and final work in New York

Posted on May 20, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve continued my work with archives in the USA over the past several weeks. Some of this has been in relation to the Indo-European Thought project, but I’ve managed to work on some peripheral things too.I had two days in Princeton, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Edward Said, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Vladimir Nabokov | 1 Comment

Jacques Derrida, Psychanalyse et critique littéraire (1969-1970) – Seuil, April 2025

Posted on April 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Psychanalyse et critique littéraire (1969-1970) – Seuil, April 2025 Thanks to John Raimo for the link Durant l’année universitaire 1969-1970, Jacques Derrida consacre un séminaire au problème des rapports entre la psychanalyse et la critique littéraire. Ce séminaire, … Continue reading →

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Hannah Arendt, David Farrell Krell and the early English translations of Heidegger

Posted on March 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Some years ago, when I was working on Heidegger, I read David Farrell Krell’s “Work Sessions with Martin Heidegger” essay. These were sessions in which Krell discussed some of Heidegger’s vocabulary and worked with him on possible English renderings, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, David Farrell Krell, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

The Friendship between Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré

Posted on March 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Although they both studied in Germany, and were among those who attended Heidegger’s lecture courses in the 1920s, Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré didn’t meet at that time. (Arendt attended lectures in 1924-26 in Marburg; Koyré in 1928-29 in Freiburg.) Their first … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Georges Bataille, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, Sunday Histories | 6 Comments

Books received – Foucault, Greimas, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Vernant, Lejeune

Posted on December 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Most of these bought on a recent Paris trip, and a couple from online second-hand stores. Spectres of Marx is a new edition, including a debate with Étienne Balibar; Du même à l’autre is the most recent seminar volume, including … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment

Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Derrida, Arendt and Scholem

Posted on November 18, 2024 by stuartelden

Books sent in recompense for review work for University of Chicago Press – three of the four volumes of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologies (the other one is out of print), Michel Foucault, What is Critique? and The Culture of the Self, … Continue reading →

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Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

Posted on November 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

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James Martell, Beckett and Derrida – Cambridge University Press, December 2024

Posted on October 25, 2024 by stuartelden

James Martell, Beckett and Derrida – Cambridge University Press, December 2024 Uncannily similar projects, Beckett’s and Derrida’s oeuvres have been linked by literary and philosophy scholars since the 1990s. Taking into consideration their shared historical and personal contexts as writers … Continue reading →

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Derrida Seminars: A Digital Repository of Jacques Derrida’s Teaching Notes

Posted on October 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Derrida Seminars: A Digital Repository of Jacques Derrida’s Teaching Notes Several of Derrida’s Seminars (and some related material) have been edited over the past several years (Galilée and then Seuil) and translated with University of Chicago Press. I’ve only looked … Continue reading →

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