Category Archives: Jacques Derrida

My favourite academic books of 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by stuartelden

As with previous years, these are a list of academic books published this year which I read and appreciated. This means that good books which I haven’t yet read don’t feature, and I will of course miss many. Several of … Continue reading →

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Books received (2) – Hyppolite, Mauss, Wollstonecraft, Jameson, Benveniste, Forestal & Philips, Besteman

Posted on December 23, 2020 by stuartelden

The papers from Hyppolite’s final seminar (including pieces by Derrida and Althusser), Marcel Mauss, Sociologie et anthropologie, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, some works by Emile Benveniste, Fredric Jameson’s The Prison-House of Language, Jennifer Forestal and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken, Mill, Rancière, Badiou, Salmon, Sirinelli

Posted on December 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently for the Foucault work, related projects and J.S. Mill for teaching. I’m teaching the history of political thought again this year, and while I have most of the texts we’re using, didn’t have Mill’s Considerations on … Continue reading →

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Books received – Peeters, Benveniste, Biagi, Collard, Brighenti & Karrholm, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson, Hyppolite, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss and Eribon

Posted on November 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Alongside some books bought new or second-hand for the Foucault work and related projects, I was sent a copy of Rosemary Clare-Collard, Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade by the publisher, Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology … Continue reading →

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Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida – Verso, September 2020

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida – Verso, September 2020 Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he … Continue reading →

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Books received – Mauss, Davidson, Dubuisson, Schrift, Sartre, Hannah, Derrida, Prideaux

Posted on August 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Mainly some books from Routledge in recompense for review work, including Matthew Hannah, Direction and Socio-Spatial Theory, but also Alastair Davidson’s Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography, Tel Quel 17 – to which Foucault contributed, Derrida’s Le calcul des langues, and Sue Prideaux’s Strindberg: A Life.

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity – University of Chicago Press, July 2020

Posted on July 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity – University of Chicago Press, July 2020. Speaking of Derrida, his text Geschlecht III, first published in French in 2018, edited by Geoffrey Bennington, Katie Chenoweth, and Rodrigo Therezo has now been translated by Katie … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Le Calcul des Langues – Seuil, June 2020 – previously unpublished manuscript, edited by Geoff Bennington and Katie Chenoweth

Posted on July 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Le Calcul des Langues – Seuil, June 2020 News of a previously unpublished manuscript by Derrida, edited by Geoff Bennington and Katie Chenoweth. Texte énigmatique et entièrement inédit, Le Calcul des langues marque la première tentative de Jacques … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Clang – a new translation of Glas by David Wills and Geoffrey Bennington, University of Minnesota Press, December 2020

Posted on May 1, 2020 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Clang – a new translation of Glas by David Wills and Geoffrey Bennington, University of Minnesota Press, December 2020 A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each … Continue reading →

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Books received – a pile from the Verso sale

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

The Verso sale runs until the end of December 2019

Posted in Books, Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Politics | Leave a comment