Category Archives: People

Henri Lefebvre, The Critique of Everyday Life – One Volume Edition

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

848 pages of Henri Lefebvre – The Critique of Everyday Life: The One-Volume Edition. Three volumes in one – the first volume comes from 1947, with a second edition in 1958 that almost doubles its length; the second volume from 1961; … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Bate on writing a biography of Ted Hughes – copyright, author estates and family members

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A very interesting piece in The Guardian by Jonathan Bate about his writing of a biography of Ted Hughes. The issues are much wider than this particular case, and concern copyright, author estates and the role of family members. There are … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment – online preview of introduction

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

The introduction to Lefebvre’s keenly anticipated Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is available to read online at Artforum. I will be interviewing editor Łukasz Stanek for the Society and Space open site in the near future.

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Books received – Derrida, Stiegler, Comay, Taubes, Azoulay & Ophir, Serres

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

A number of books from Stanford University Press in recompense for review work.

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Books received- Jaspers, Thompson, Heidegger, journals

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Another pile of post today – three books by Karl Jaspers, including his Groningen lectures Reason and Existenz; Richard Yarwood’s Citizenship;the re-edition of E.P. Thompson’s Warwick University Ltd; the first volume of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte; and some new issues of … Continue reading →

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Jacques le Goff (1924-2014)

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Jacques le Goff, medieval historian, has died at the age of ninety. I found his work really helpful while writing The Birth of Territory, and recently consulted his collection Hérésies et sociétés dans l’Europe pré-industrielle, 11e-18e siècles in which Foucault has a chapter. There … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman interviews with Levi Bryant and Tristan Garcia’s translators

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Two interesting interviews to accompany the EUP book series. Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn about their translation of Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object. Levi Bryant on his new book Onto-Cartography. You can read the introductions to these, and Adrian Johnston’s … Continue reading →

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7 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in March

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Critical-theory.com has another list of recently published books – Roudinesco on Lacan, Despret & Stengers, Negra & Tasker, Critchley, Shults, Zizek and Grant.

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Four short excerpts from Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, translated by Richard Polt

Posted on March 31, 2014 by stuartelden

Four passage from the black notebooks (GA 96) quoted in Peter Trawny’s book Heidegger und der Mythos der jüdischen Weltverschwörung – at Enowning. Update: some of the same passages are also translated here, along with a couple of others.

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New pieces on Heidegger’s Schwarze Hefte

Posted on March 31, 2014 by stuartelden

A review in German in Die Zeit (thanks to Peter Gratton for this one), and a piece in The New York Times. All three volumes are now published – details at the Klostermann site.

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