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Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, Bachelard (avec des inédits de Clémence Ramnoux) – Éditions Rue d’Ulm, October 2025

Posted on October 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, Bachelard (avec des inédits de Clémence Ramnoux) – Éditions Rue d’Ulm, October 2025 Some excerpts available here; parts available online with subscription. Ramnoux’s Œuvres were published a few … Continue reading →

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Andrew Alexander Davis and Sebastian Rand eds., New Perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right – Bloomsbury, August 2025

Posted on October 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Andrew Alexander Davis and Sebastian Rand eds., New Perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right – Bloomsbury, August 2025 This collection of new perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right breaks down some of the most stubborn barriers between the book and its readers. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Canguilhem, Jerrems, Hayter and Harvey, Leary-Owhin

Posted on October 7, 2025 by stuartelden

The final volume of Georges Canguilhem, Oeuvres complètes, Ari Jerrems, The Spatial Limits of Political Community, Teresa Hayter and David Harvey, The Factory and the City: The Story of the Cowley Automobile Workers in Oxford and Michael Edema Leary-Ohwin, Exploring … Continue reading →

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Books received – Levinas, de Menasce, Braudel, Bloch and Febvre

Posted on October 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Books relating to the new interest in stories of French academics who spent time in German prisoner of war camps, a book about Émile Benveniste’s former student Jean de Menasce (see here), and a few relating to the Annales school … Continue reading →

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From a Watershed to the Parting of the Waters: A Note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown

Posted on October 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Back in November 2014, while I was researching Foucault’s Last Decade, I wrote “A minor note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown: From a watershed to the parting of the waters” for this site. I was interested in Foucault’s use of an idea … Continue reading →

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David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Posted on October 3, 2025 by stuartelden

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series  Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson‘s ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.  This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth birthday, we’re publishing a series of … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk, If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color – trans. Corey Anderson Dansereau and Robert Hughes, Polity, June 2025

Posted on October 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color – trans. Corey Anderson Dansereau and Robert Hughes, Polity, June 2025 “You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray”, declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: … Continue reading →

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Jean de Menasce’s dedication to Émile Benveniste – “in memory of the year of exile”

Posted on October 1, 2025 by stuartelden

I already knew that Jean de Menasce dedicated his edition and translation of the 9th century Zoroastrian theological text Škand-Gumānīk Vičār to Émile Benveniste. Benveniste had taught de Menasce Iranian languages, especially Pahlavi, in the late 1930s at the École Pratique des Hautes … 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 →

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Jean Hyppolite, Studien über Marx und Hegel – ed. and trans. Thomas Ebke, Sabina Hoth and Frank Müller – Meiner Verlag, 2025

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Jean Hyppolite, Studien über Marx und Hegel – ed. and trans. Thomas Ebke, Sabina Hoth and Frank Müller – Meiner Verlag, 2025 Thanks to Thomas Ebke for the information about this – he says it’s the first translation of a book … Continue reading →

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