Category Archives: Jacques Derrida

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 →

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

Posted on May 1, 2024 by stuartelden

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

Posted on April 26, 2024 by stuartelden

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

Posted on March 16, 2024 by stuartelden

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

Posted on February 3, 2024 by stuartelden

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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