Category Archives: Jean-Paul Sartre

Emile Benveniste’s Second World War 

Posted on May 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Although I have largely put the chapters on Emile Benveniste in my Indo-European thought project aside for the moment, I am still thinking a bit about what remains an unanswered question – what did Benveniste do between the time he was called … Continue reading →

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Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series

Posted on April 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series Fredric Jameson turns 90 years old this month. To celebrate this milestone, we’re publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson’s oeuvre. Daniel Hartley on Sartre: The Origins of a … Continue reading →

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Unintimidated Languages: Jameson at 90

Posted on April 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Unintimidated Languages: Jameson at 90 In honor of Fredric Jameson‘s 90th birthday this month, we’re publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson’s oeuvre. Here, Daniel Hartley revisits Jameson’s first book, Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961). … Continue reading →

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Parts of Georges Bataille’s library for sale (and a fascinating downloadable catalogue and inventaire)

Posted on November 5, 2022 by stuartelden

Parts of Georges Bataille’s library are for sale – story here. As you’d expect, things are rather expensive… A catalogue is available to buy – La bibliothèque de Georges Bataille – and to download as pdf here. petit in-4, broché, … Continue reading →

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Gérard Deledalle and Denis Huisman (eds), Les philosophes français d’aujourd’hui par eux-mêmes: autobiographie de la philosophie française contemporaine, 1963 (table of contents)

Posted on November 4, 2022 by stuartelden

Given the interest in the collection Gérard Deledalle and Denis Huisman (eds), Les philosophes français d’aujourd’hui par eux-mêmes: autobiographie de la philosophie française contemporaine, 1963, which I mentioned in the previous post, from which the Lefebvre piece at the Verso blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Emmanuel Levinas, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty | 2 Comments

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

Robert Boncardo on the sixtieth anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason

Posted on August 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Robert Boncardo on the sixtieth anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason at the Verso blog. Celebrating its sixtieth birthday this year, and enjoying a new print run thanks to Verso Books, the first volume of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique … Continue reading →

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Books received – University of Minnesota Press, Sartre, Dumézil, Koyré

Posted on June 29, 2020 by stuartelden

A mixed pile of books, mostly from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for some review work, along with some second-hand French books.

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The Early Foucault Update 32: Unable to finish a manuscript during lockdown

Posted on May 4, 2020 by stuartelden

While these are strange and disruptive times, as much as I’m able, I’m trying to make progress on this book manuscript. I’d intended to submit it to Polity by the end of April, but that unfortunately wasn’t possible. I can … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Sartre, Canguilhem, Baxstrom and Meyers

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

Two books by Dumézil, one by Sartre, the latest volume of the Canguilhem Oeuvres, and Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible.

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