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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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Michel Foucault, auteur, lecteur, archiviste. Dialogue avec Daniel Defert – video recording

Posted on March 30, 2014 by stuartelden

“Michel Foucault, auteur, lecteur, archiviste. Dialogue avec Daniel Defert” – video recording available here.

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Jakob von Uexküll: A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans

Posted on March 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Jakob von Uexküll, A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans was recently published in a new edition. This is a text that Heidegger, Deleuze & Guattari and Agamben have all discussed. The Monoskop site has gathered a number of … Continue reading →

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The English language sources of Foucault’s L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi

Posted on March 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Last year a little book of Foucault’s lectures at Dartmouth College in 1980 was published in French – L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi: Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Paris: Vrin, 2013. [Update: A … Continue reading →

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A few translated excerpts from the discussion following Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures in Rio

Posted on March 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Between 21-25 May 1973, Foucault gave five lectures in Rio de Janeiro. These were under the collective title of ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’. They were published in Portuguese in 1974 as “A verdade e as formas jurídicas” (easily available online), … Continue reading →

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