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Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Althusser, Nicolaysen, Heidegger, Foucault, TCS, Lefebvre, Scammell, Avellaneda and Vega

Posted on January 2, 2020 by stuartelden

A mixed pile of books to come back to in the office. They include – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L’union de l’âme et du corps chez Malebranche, Biran et Bergson – a course Foucault attended Jacques Lacan, My Teaching Two recent translations of … Continue reading →

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Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno’s correspondence on the legacy of Walter Benjamin

Posted on December 17, 2019 by stuartelden

Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno’s correspondence on the legacy of Walter Benjamin – in the Los Angeles Review of Books, edited and translated by Susan H. Gillespie and Samantha Rose Hill THE 1967 CORRESPONDENCE between Hannah Arendt and Theodor … Continue reading →

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Books received – a pile from the Verso sale

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

The Verso sale runs until the end of December 2019

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Books received – Dumézil, Sartre, Canguilhem, Baxstrom and Meyers

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

Two books by Dumézil, one by Sartre, the latest volume of the Canguilhem Oeuvres, and Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible.

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The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society – edited by Michael E. Leary-Owhin and John P. McCarthy The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre’s … Continue reading →

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A bibliographical curiosity – ‘Michel Foucault’ and a thesis on penicillin

Posted on December 10, 2019 by stuartelden

Michael Clark’s Michel Foucault, an Annotated Bibliography: Tool Kit for a New Age includes a curious entry on p. 3: “Sur l’emploi de la pénicilline par voie buccale”, Paris: Université Faculté de médecine, 1952 [?], 56 pages. The title would translate … Continue reading →

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Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva – Bloomsbury, January 2020

Posted on December 9, 2019 by stuartelden

Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva – Bloomsbury, January 2020 At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva–one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Her some fifty books, … Continue reading →

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Althusser’s 1963 Presentation of Bourdieu and Passeron – translated and introduced in Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on December 5, 2019 by stuartelden

On 6 December 1963 Pierre Bourdieu and Passeron gave a seminar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. They were introduced by Louis Althusser, and his introduction, translated by Rachel Gomme, along with a commentary by Charlotte Branchu and Derek Robbins has been published in Theory, … Continue reading →

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Gilles Deleuze, Louis Althusser, Peter Sloterdijk, Pierre Bourdieu, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Kuhn, Bradley, Mbembe, Fisher and Gotman (eds.), Derrida, Delay and Verdeaux

Posted on November 22, 2019 by stuartelden

The books by Kuhn and Delay and Verdeaux are for the work on the early Foucault; Arthur Bradley, Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure was sent by the publishers; and the Derrida and Mbembe books are newly out. Mbembe’s Necropolitics contains … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche Or the Realm of Shadows – translated by David Fernbach, Verso, February 2020

Posted on November 18, 2019 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche Or the Realm of Shadows – translated by David Fernbach, Verso, February 2020 I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s now up on the Verso site and online bookstores. I wrote an Introduction to this. A … Continue reading →

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