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CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

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Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023, paperback July 2025 and NDPR review

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023 NDPR review by Bernardo Ferro G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard update October 2025: the database is now available. Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued … Continue reading →

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Eugenio Donato and “The Structuralist Controversy” conference – proceedings, recordings, Foucault and Flaubert

Posted on July 6, 2025 by stuartelden

The 18-21 October 1966 Baltimore conference on structuralism has long been recognised as important for the reception of French theory in the United States. Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Lucien Goldmann, Jean Hyppolite, Jacques Lacan and Jean-Pierre Vernant were some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, René Girard, Sunday Histories | 7 Comments

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 →

Posted in Michel Serres, Roman Jakobson, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025

Posted on July 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025 For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication—the novels, biographies, … Continue reading →

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on July 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025)

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025) (via Foucault News) This issue of Foucault Studies is the first to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/foucault-studies/. The journal retains its full intellectual independence and keeps publishing according to a diamond open access … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Edward Said, Emile Benveniste, Erwin Panofsky, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Hyppolite, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Leonard Robert Palmer, Elisabeth/Elizabeth Palmer and the “Studies in General Linguistics” series – a note on the English editors and translators of André Martinet and Émile Benveniste

Posted on June 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Leonard Robert Palmer (1906-1984) was a British linguist, important both for his own work and as an editor. Early in his career he taught Classics at the Victoria University of Manchester, became Chair of Greek at King’s College London, and from … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Sunday Histories | 4 Comments