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Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 (print and open access) and two interviews

Posted on October 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 – hardback and open access available now; paperback in June 2026 Uncovers the nonhuman turn’s unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works – Verso, February 2026

Posted on October 14, 2025 by stuartelden

David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works – Verso, February 2026 The world’s leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx’s masterwork For decades, David Harvey … Continue reading →

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Did Benveniste read Derrida’s Of Grammatology?

Posted on October 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida was certainly a careful reader of Émile Benveniste. He wrote a critique of Benveniste in “Le supplément de copule. La philosophie devant la linguistique” which appeared in 1971, in a special issue of Langages, “Épistémologie de la linguistique” edited … Continue reading →

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Andres Saenz de Sicilia ed. Marx and the Critique of Humanism – Bloomsbury, February 2026

Posted on October 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Andres Saenz de Sicilia ed. Marx and the Critique of Humanism – Bloomsbury, February 2026 What is the status of ‘the human’ and ‘humanism’ in Marx’s thought? Does Marx’s critical project rest upon ‘humanist’ commitments? If so, what are these and … Continue reading →

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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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