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Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research – Gdansk, 17-19 July 2025

Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research – Gdansk, 17-19 July 2025

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Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme industriel et socialisme paysan/Industrial Socialism and Peasant Socialism”, Actuel Marx, 2023, eds. Claire Revol and Armelle Lefebvre

I missed this when published a couple of years ago – a previously unpublished lecture by Henri Lefebvre, taken from his archives, which have been deposited at IMEC and are being catalogued – see the initial notice. Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme … Continue reading

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The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 – Swedenborg Hall, London, 18-19 June 2025

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 – Swedenborg Hall, London, 18-19 June 2025 ‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not’ – Rose’s discovery of Silouan the Athonite’s maxim provided the occasion for Love’s Work and guided its weaving … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 28: archives in Princeton, Chicago and final work in New York

I’ve continued my work with archives in the USA over the past several weeks. Some of this has been in relation to the Indo-European Thought project, but I’ve managed to work on some peripheral things too.I had two days in Princeton, … Continue reading

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Books received – Adorno, Benveniste, Jakobson, Godel

Three books by Adorno from Verso, and second-hand copies of Émile Benveniste’s Indo-European Language and Society, the first volume of Roman Jakobson’s Selected Writings, and Robert Godel, Les Sources Manuscrites du cours de linguistique générale de F. de Saussure.

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Books received – Robeyns, Billé, Legg, Neocleous, Daviron, Granet, Shapiro, Testa, Carrigan, Pothecary

Books generously sent to me by publishers, authors or editors. Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism; Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities; Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police; … Continue reading

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 (open access)

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 As I was away, I’ve only just received the editor copies. The … Continue reading

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Alexandre Koyré in Cairo

This is a revised and expanded version of a post from September 2024 Alexandre Koyré’s teaching career was predominantly in Paris and the United States. Born in Russia, he studied in Paris and Germany, before beginning teaching at the École Pratique des Hautes … Continue reading

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Books received – Vendryes, Critique, Jakobson & Pomorska, Rose, Zerelli, Nabokov & Wilson, Koyré, Wikander, Jakobson & Fischer-Jørgensen

Mainly bought second-hand while in New York, but also the recent Critique issue on Canguilhem, the new translation of Stig Wikander, The Aryan Männerbund, and Linda M.G. Zerelli, A Democratic Theory of Truth.

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Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading

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