Category Archives: Jean Hyppolite

“Foucault and Structuralism” – a book chapter for Daniele Lorenzini’s collection The Foucauldian Mind

I recently wrote a book chapter on “Foucault and Structuralism” for The Foucauldian Mind, edited by my friend and former Warwick colleague Daniele Lorenzini. It’s been an interesting diversion from the other work. Contrary to my usual practice, where I … Continue reading

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Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No 307, 2024

Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, edited by Federico Testa, No 307, 2024 Congratulations to Federico for bringing this issue together – it has taken a long time, but as … Continue reading

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in the years before the Second World War, are an important and much discussed moment in European intellectual history. The lectures were edited and published … Continue reading

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Martial Gueroult, Critique de la raison pure de Kant – previously unpublished lecture course, Éditions du Collège de France, November 2022

Martial Gueroult, Critique de la raison pure de Kant – Éditions du Collège de France, edited by Arnaud Pelletier, November 2022 A previously unpublished lecture course, from 1957-58. Gueroult held the history of philosophy chair at the Collège de France, succeeded by … Continue reading

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Excerpt from The Archaeology of Foucault at The Montreal Review (open access)

A short excerpt from the coda of The Archaeology of Foucault is available open access at The Montréal Review. It discusses Foucault’s tributes to Jean Hyppolite and the visits to SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and 1972. Thanks to publicity staff … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought project update 3: Paris – Foucault, Canguilhem, Dumézil

I had a good two-week visit to Paris, where I worked at both the Mitterand and Richelieu sites of the Bibliothèque nationale, the Collège de France and the École normale supérieure. It was something of a transitional trip, doing a … Continue reading

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Jean Hyppolite, Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel – Classiques Garnier, January 2022

Jean Hyppolite, Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel – Classiques Garnier, January 2022, edited by Giuseppe Bianco Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel, la thèse principale de Jean Hyppolite, publiée pour la première fois … Continue reading

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 10: cycling in Wales, work on The Order of Things, Nietzsche and a short trip to Paris

In the last part of the summer I was able to make some good progress on this manuscript. In late August and early September I had two-week writing and cycling break in Wales. The weather was good until the last … Continue reading

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 9: further work on linguistics, Roussel and the 1970 visits to Buffalo and Japan

This manuscript is slowly coming together. I’ve continued working on the linguistics and literary analysis texts in Folie, langage, littérature. For space reasons, I’ve had to keep the discussion of these down, though in many respects they reinforce or supplement points made in the … Continue reading

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Books received – Eliade, Charachidzé, Mayhew, Hyppolite’s Hegel, Ginzburg, Fujikane, Mayhew

Mainly some older books picked up second-hand, including Jean Hyppolite’s translation of Hegel, and Robert Mayhew’s Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet, along with Candace Fujikane, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler … Continue reading

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