Category Archives: Jean-Paul Sartre

Mark Poster (1941-2012)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Mark Poster, intellectual historian of French thought and theorist of media and information, died yesterday. I never met him or heard him speak, but he was important to me through his writings. Perhaps best known for his work on Baudrillard, Sartre, … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, People | 2 Comments

Reading the Classics of Western Philosophy

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

List below and survey here. The queston asked is how many of these have you read. And the whole of these books, not some, not an abbreviated form. I’m claiming 18 of these, and bits, sometimes substantial, of others. Never read any Sidgwick, Moore, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Graham Harman, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Locke, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Why is Lefebvre sometimes Lefèbvre?

Posted on March 25, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve just seen this again – where does the spelling Lefèbvre for Henri Lefebvre come from? I have all but three of his books in French, and it’s not on them. His biographer Rémi Hess doesn’t use it. Lefebvre himself … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre | 4 Comments