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Law and Humanities Summer School, University of Hong Kong, 8-13 June 2020

Posted on September 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Law and Humanities Summer School, University of Hong Kong, 8-13 June 2020 The Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong will hold its first law and humanities summer school, 8-13 June 2020. This … Continue reading →

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A Revolutionary from the OECD – the Castoriadis/Poulantzas debate, translated and introduced at the Verso blog

Posted on September 13, 2019 by stuartelden

A Revolutionary from the OECD – the Castoriadis/Poulantzas debate – at the Verso blog In 1977, an intense debate raged in the Greek press between Nicos Poulantzas and Cornelius Castoriadis, sparked by remarks made by Poulantzas in an article that questioned … Continue reading →

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Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning the Thing, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on September 13, 2019 by stuartelden

Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning the Thing, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 – also reviewed at NDPR by Hakhamanesh Zangeneh. This is a new translation of material which had appeared in English in 1967 but had long been out of print. … Continue reading →

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John Sallis, Elemental Discourses, Indiana University Press, 2018 – first volume of Collected Writings, reviewed at NDPR

Posted on September 13, 2019 by stuartelden

John Sallis, Elemental Discourses, Indiana University Press, 2018 – reviewed by Jeffrey Powell at NDPR The publication of this book is an event for those familiar with the work of John Sallis, for it is the first volume to be … Continue reading →

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Books received – Adorno et. al., Miller, Dumézil, Althusser

Posted on September 13, 2019 by stuartelden

Ethan Miller, Reimagining Livelihoods: Life Beyond Economy, Society and Environment was sent by the press, The Authoritarian Personality has recently been reissued by Verso and is currently on sale, the rest were bought second-hand.

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Kathryn Medien, ‘Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power’, The Sociological Review 2019

Posted on September 11, 2019 by stuartelden

Kathryn Medien, ‘Foucault in Tunisia: The encounter with intolerable power‘, The Sociological Review, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119870107 (requires subscription) In September 1966, 10 years after Tunisia officially gained independence from French colonial rule, Michel Foucault took up a three-year secondment, teaching philosophy … Continue reading →

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Free download of Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, Verso until September 7, 2019

Posted on September 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Download Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre – for free! – until Saturday, September 7th! Until September 7th, we’re giving away the ebook edition of Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy. An essential book on our Philosophy: Verso Student Reading list, and a key text in Lefebvre’s oeuvre, Metaphilosophy is a milestone in … Continue reading →

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Marcel M. van der Linden and Gerald Hubmann (eds.), Marx’s Capital: An Unfinishable Project? Haymarket, 2019

Posted on August 29, 2019 by stuartelden

Marcel M. van der Linden and Gerald Hubmann (eds.), Marx’s Capital: An Unfinishable Project? Haymarket, 2019 Good to see this is now available in paperback For almost 150 years, scholars have been debating how to interpret Marx’s seminal work Capital … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 26 – Defert, Wahl, Warsaw, Hamburg, Dumézil

Posted on August 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Since the last update, and a short holiday in Wales, I’ve been systematically going through each of the previously drafted chapters, and doing a bit of reorganization. I’ve also worked through all the issues of Le Magazine Littéraire which have theme … Continue reading →

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Books received – Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis and some for the early Foucault work

Posted on August 22, 2019 by stuartelden

A copy of Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis, generously sent by Martin, and some second-hand ones for The Early Foucault work. Clavel, Mauriac and Italiaander all knew Foucault at different times, and Pestana is a useful study of his early … Continue reading →

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