Category Archives: Louis Althusser

Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop, Althusser and Spinoza: Detours and Returns – trans. Élise Hendrick ed. Dan Taylor, Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on November 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop, Althusser and Spinoza: Detours and Returns – trans. Élise Hendrick ed. Dan Taylor, Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025

Posted on November 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025 J’ai mis des années avant d’oser écrire sur Hélène. Elle n’était pas que l’étranglée de la rue d’Ulm. Elle était un mystère, une femme aux multiples identités, une personnalité opaque, hermétique … Continue reading →

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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-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Raymond Ruyer, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized, Walter Benjamin | 6 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 →

Posted in Bernard E. Harcourt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

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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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – the resulting publications and the archive of its lectures

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Louis Althusser’s seminars at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) are of course best known for the famous Reading Capital volume, which developed from his 1964-65 seminar. He ran seminars on the young Marx in 1961-62 and Lacan and psychoanalysis in 1963-64. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Georges Canguilhem, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School, trans. Fabio Gironi, Brill, July 2025

Posted on February 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School, trans. Fabio Gironi, Brill, July 2025 Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction is the first book-length examination of the theses developed by Louis Althusser and his collaborators on the … Continue reading →

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Samuel Mercer, The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour – Brill, 2024

Posted on August 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Samuel Mercer, The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour – Brill, 2024 Expensive hardback and e-book only at present, but as with other volumes in the Historical Materialism series, to follow 12 months later as a paperback with … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 8, 2024 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Louis Althusser, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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

Posted on March 5, 2024 by stuartelden

A revised and expanded version of this post is here as part of the Sunday histories series. 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, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Canguilhem, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Hyppolite, Louis Althusser, Stefanos Geroulanos, Uncategorized | 4 Comments