Category Archives: People

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 and NDPR review

Posted on June 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 I’ve shared this book before; there is now a NDPR review by Steve Naragon Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant’s account of … Continue reading →

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Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025

Posted on June 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025 This series usually appears 12 months later in paperback from Haymarket books. From the “red years” that followed the social explosion of May ’68 … Continue reading →

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Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco and Valentina Surace (eds.), Political Ontology, Community and Institutions – SUNY Press, May 2025

Posted on June 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco and Valentina Surace (eds.), Political Ontology, Community and Institutions – SUNY Press, May 2025 Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito’s thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors … Continue reading →

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Pierre Yves-Testenoire, Les cours de Roman Jakobson à l’École Libre des Hautes Études: New York, 1942–1946 – De Gruyter, August 2025

Posted on June 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Pierre Yves-Testenoire, Les cours de Roman Jakobson à l’École Libre des Hautes Études: New York, 1942–1946 – De Gruyter, August 2025 Exiled in the United States during the Second World War, linguist Roman Jakobson gave a series of lectures at the … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre and the “Liste Otto” of Prohibited Books in Occupied France

Posted on June 22, 2025 by stuartelden

The “Liste Otto” was named after Otto Abetz, German ambassador to France under the Occupation, from August 1940 until the Liberation. The list indicated which books had to be removed from sale, with existing copies destroyed, after the German invasion … Continue reading →

Posted in Adam David Morton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized, Understanding Henri Lefebvre | 6 Comments

“Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas” – audio recording of talk at Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

Posted on June 18, 2025 by stuartelden

On 16 June 2025 I gave a short talk with the title “Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, to the Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop at the Maison Française, Oxford. The audio recording of my talk … Continue reading →

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Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025

Posted on June 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025

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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 →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edward Said, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Pierre Klossowski, Roland Barthes, Sunday Histories | 6 Comments

Fanon’s Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 – Birkbeck, 27-28 June 2025

Posted on June 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Fanon’s Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 – Birkbeck, 27-28 June 2025 2025 marks the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon. Despite Fanon’s enormous influence in postcolonial studies, political thought, the history of Marxism and the humanities more widely, … Continue reading →

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Remembering / Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy – Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Remembering / Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy, Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025 Registration and further details at the above link Nearly forty years after the death of Michel Foucault, the time may be ripe for a critical reassessment … Continue reading →

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