Category Archives: Jean-Paul Sartre

Books received – Sartre, Foucault, Arthur, Jameson, Leff

Posted on October 17, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre, Between Existentialism and Marxism; Michel Foucault, Iran, quand la terre tremble: Reportage 1978-1979; Paige Arthur, Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre; Frederic Jameson, After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought and The Years of Theory: … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations, contents and a guide to the English translations – updated to include all volumes

Posted on October 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations, contents and a guide to the English translations – the list has been updated to include all volumes of the first edition Previously the list included just the first five volumes of the first edition. I added … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations and the chronology of his exchange with Claude Lefort about communism

Posted on October 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Back in 2024 I complained about how hard it was to navigate Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. I went looking for the French version of “What is a Collaborator?”, only to find it was in volume III of the original edition and volume II … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Mbembe, Miéville, Jameson, Senghor, Luna

Posted on October 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre, Politics and Literature; Achille Mbembe, La communauté terrestre; China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto; the reissue of Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form; Léopold Sédar Senghor, Writings on Politics and The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre, Cours de philosophie de terminale pris sous la dictée par son élève Maurice Mermet. Lycée Condorcet, 1942-1943, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, September 2026

Posted on October 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre, Cours de philosophie de terminale pris sous la dictée par son élève Maurice Mermet. Lycée Condorcet, 1942-1943, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, September 2026 Maurice Mermet a seize ans à la rentrée scolaire de 1942. Venu de Lyon, il … Continue reading →

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Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism and Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature – new editions, Princeton University Press, September 2026

Posted on September 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism – new edition, Princeton University Press, September 2026 Foreword by Caleb Smith and Paul North (the sample material online appears to be from Marxism and Form instead). In The Prison-House of … Continue reading →

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Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity –  Cornell University Press, June 2026

Posted on April 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity –  Cornell University Press, June 2026 A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland … Continue reading →

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Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil

Posted on April 5, 2026 by stuartelden

The philosopher, literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot’s politics have come under periodic scrutiny. Leslie Hill describes the source of the controversy:  As early as 1931 and 1932, while starting out with the Journal des débats, Blanchot was writing political articles … Continue reading →

Posted in Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Maurice Blanchot, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Books written by French professors while prisoners of war in World War II, and the Université de Captivité in Oflag XVII-A

Posted on September 28, 2025 by stuartelden

There are many famous books written in prison, from Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy to Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Socrates’ final words in prison are dramatized by Plato in the Crito. The Marquis de Sade wrote some of his books in prison, and Miguel … Continue reading →

Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, Étienne Wolff, Emmanuel Levinas, Fernand Braudel, François Ellenberger, Georges Canguilhem, Hannah Arendt, Jean Cavaillès, Jean Wahl, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Raymond Ruyer, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized, Walter Benjamin | 10 Comments

Hegel 13/13 – Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought series

Posted on September 13, 2025 by stuartelden

The seminars at the Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought organised by Bernard Harcourt continue with Hegel 13/13. I was able to go to several of the Marx 13/13 series earlier this year, and the larger events are usually … Continue reading →

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