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Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation – trans. Randolph Burks, University of Minnesota Press, February 2026

Posted on December 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation – trans. Randolph Burks, University of Minnesota Press, February 2026 Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common language Hermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel Serres’s renowned Hermes series, an … Continue reading →

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Books received – Garber, Serres, Spanos, Bové & O’Hara, Trubetzkoy & Jakobson, Boulez

Posted on July 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, now in paperback; Michel Serres, Hermes II: Interference; the older collection The Question of Textuality: Strategies of Reading in Contemporary American Criticism; Nikolai Trubetzkoy’s correspondence with Roman Jakobson in French translation; and Pierre Boulez’s lectures … Continue reading →

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Josué V. Harari, the Marquis de Sade, and Michel Foucault’s 1970 lectures in Buffalo

Posted on June 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Josué V. Harari plays a small but important role in the story of Foucault in the United States. A PhD researcher at the University at Buffalo when Foucault visited in the early 1970s, he went on to edit a 1979 volume … Continue reading →

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Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight (eds.), Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres – Duke University Press, March 2024

Posted on August 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Andreas Bandak and Daniel M. Knight (eds.), Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres – Duke University Press, March 2024 One of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930–2019) broke free from disciplinary dogmas. His reflections … Continue reading →

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Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, trans. Louise Burchill, University of Minnesota Press, December 2023

Posted on October 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, Translated by Louise Burchill, Introduction by Paul A. Harris, University of Minnesota Press, 2023 Michel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel … Continue reading →

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A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, attended by Foucault, Canguilhem, Bourdieu, Serres, Thom et. al., its published traces and a request for help

Posted on October 12, 2022 by stuartelden

This is a short account of an interesting event and a rather specialist request for help. In the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s the Institut collégial européen organised a series of events, most of which were reported in their annual … Continue reading →

Posted in Clémence Ramnoux, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Roland Barthes | 2 Comments

Books received – Montinari, Dumézil, Othmani, Lazreg, Deleuze, Watkin, BNF

Posted on October 15, 2020 by stuartelden

All bought this time, mainly for the ongoing Foucault work. Marnia Lazreg’s Foucault’s Orient is now in paperback, and finally got a copy of Christopher Watkin’s Michel Serres: Figures of Thought. Ahmed Othmani was one of Foucault’s students in Tunisia, … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkin, “So you want to read Michel Serres? Start here”

Posted on April 23, 2020 by stuartelden

A very useful reading guide from Christopher Watkin, author of the recently published Michel Serres: Figures of Thought from Edinburgh University Press. I recently received an email from someone wanting to get into Michel Serres’s writing in English translation, and asking … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkin, Michel Serres: Figures of Thought – Edinburgh University Press, March 2020

Posted on January 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin, Michel Serres: Figures of Thought – Edinburgh University Press, March 2020 Great to see details of this major study, several years in the making. The first full introduction to Serres, from The System of Leibniz (1968) to his … Continue reading →

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