Category Archives: Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Posted on July 20, 2025 by stuartelden

This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rose, Sartre, Koyré, Benveniste, Greimas, Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2024 by stuartelden

The reedition of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work; Sartre’s Literary and Philosophical Essays; the Mélanges collections for Alexandre Koyré and Emile Benveniste; Algirdas Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology; and Foucault’s Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Koyré, Meillet, Gilmartin, Hubbard, Kitchin and Roberts, and Foucault

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre’s Modern Times, older second-hand books by Alexandre Koyré and Antoine Meillet, the new edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, and Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024. I am one of the new … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations – beginning of a list of essays and translations

Posted on June 22, 2024 by stuartelden

I previously grumbled about how hard it was to navigate Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. I went looking for an essay in the French, only to find it was in one volume of the original edition and a different volume of the revised edition. I … Continue reading →

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The chaos of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations

Posted on June 17, 2024 by stuartelden

I just looked for an essay in one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. What a chaotic mess the different editions and translations are. The English text with the title Situations (1965) is a partial translation of volume IV. Qu’est-ce que la … 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 →

Posted in Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Pierre Klossowski | 3 Comments

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 →

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