Category Archives: People

Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025; paperback Haymarket June 2026

Posted on June 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025; paperback Haymarket June 2026 A new collection of essays on two of the most important communist philosophers of our time: Alain Badiou and Toni … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026

Posted on June 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026 This book explores the Situationist International’s paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that … Continue reading →

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Julia Kristeva’s Dostoyevsky – from Mikhail Bakhtin and Hans Holbein to psychoanalysis, religion and language 

Posted on June 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva often references Fyodor Dostoyevsky in her work. She read him while growing up in Bulgaria, and continued after her move to France. She recalls her initial reading was against her father’s directive. As well as Dostoyevsky’s famous novels, … Continue reading →

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Jean-David Morvan, Suzette Bloch and Laurent Bidot, Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant – La vie et l’œuvre de Marc Bloch en BD, Tallandier, June 2026

Posted on June 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-David Morvan and Suzette Bloch, Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant – La vie et l’œuvre de Marc Bloch en BD, Tallandier, June 2026 « Marc Bloch était mon grand-père. Un homme exceptionnel, un savant, un républicain et un patriote acharné dont l’engagement … Continue reading →

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Jean Wahl, The Idea of the Instant in Descartes’s Philosophy – ed. and trans. Alan D. Schrift, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

Posted on June 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean Wahl, The Idea of the Instant in Descartes’s Philosophy – ed. and trans. Alan D. Schrift, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

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Books received – Sollers, Kristeva, Shakespeare, Storm, Andrew & Ungar

Posted on June 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Some books bought new or second-hand recently, including some for ‘Sunday History’ posts; the first two volumes of the Arden Shakespeare fourth series; and Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Coils of Critical History, … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités – new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026

Posted on June 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités – new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026 Thanks to John Raimo for this link. As far as I can tell, this has the same content as the 2019 edition of … Continue reading →

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Henry Somers-Hall, Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought – Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

Posted on June 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Henry Somers-Hall, Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought – Edinburgh University Press, May 2026 Interview with Brent Adkins about the book

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Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and the Question of Fascism

Posted on May 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Most of Georges Bataille’s earliest writings were literary, and between 1929 and the early 1930s he was the editor of Documents, an art and literary journal (scans are available on Gallica). Most of his articles there were included in the first … Continue reading →

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Yannis Flytzanis ed. Henri Lefebvre – Space, Philosophy and the Political – Bloomsbury, July 2026

Posted on May 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Yannis Flytzanis ed. Henri Lefebvre – Space, Philosophy and the Political – Bloomsbury, July 2026 A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging … Continue reading →

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