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Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being – Duke University Press, October 2025

Posted on November 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being – Duke University Press, October 2025 The Introduction is open access at this link In Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Given Time II, eds. Laura Odello, Peter Szendy and Rodrigo Therezo, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf – University of Chicago Press, March 2026

Posted on November 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Given Time II, eds. Laura Odello, Peter Szendy and Rodrigo Therezo, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf – University of Chicago Press, March 2026 The long-awaited conclusion to Derrida’s seminar on the gift and time. In 1991, Jacques … Continue reading →

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Jean Hyppolite, Charles Péguy: Quatre conférences, ed. Giuseppe Bianco – Classiques Garnier, January 2024

Posted on November 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Jean Hyppolite, Charles Péguy: Quatre conférences, ed. Giuseppe Bianco – Classiques Garnier, January 2024 En 1954, Jean Hyppolite, professeur d’histoire de la philosophie à la Sorbonne, donne ces quatre conférences au Centre européen universitaire de Nancy. Il s’agit du seul … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Hermaphrodites – from Herculine Barbin to a planned volume of the History of Sexuality and the recently published manuscript

Posted on November 2, 2025 by stuartelden

In May 1978, Foucault edited the memoir of a “hermaphrodite”, Herculine Barbin, for publication. In the dossier of documents appended to that text he says that “the question of strange destinies like these and which posed such problems for medicine … Continue reading →

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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift – reposted for the 90th anniversary of Said’s birth

Posted on November 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Edward Said was born 90 years ago today – one day after David Harvey. Here’s a piece on Said I wrote earlier this year about his early career – The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift Given all his … Continue reading →

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Daniel James and Franz Knappik, Hegel and Colonialism – Cambridge University Press, October 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on November 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Daniel James and Franz Knappik, Hegel and Colonialism – Cambridge University Press, October 2025 -print and open access This Element offers the first comprehensive study of Hegel’s views on European colonialism. In surprisingly detailed discussions scattered throughout much of his … Continue reading →

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David Harvey and Paris: a tribute for his 90th birthday

Posted on October 31, 2025 by stuartelden

In a retrospective of his long career, first published in 2021, David Harvey made the following claim: I have written quite a few books over the course of my academic career, beginning with Explanation in Geography (Harvey, 1969) and most recently Marx, Capital … Continue reading →

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Katherine Davies, Heidegger’s Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy – SUNY Press, paperback March 2025

Posted on October 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Katherine Davies, Heidegger’s Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy – SUNY Press, paperback March 2025 Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger’s five conversational texts. Reading Martin Heidegger’s five conversational texts together for the first time, Heidegger’s Conversations elaborates not only what Heidegger thought … Continue reading →

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Jean-François Suratteau, Les métamorphoses de l’art de gouverner Michel Foucault au Collège de France – Vrin, September 2025, and interview

Posted on October 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Jean-François Suratteau, Les métamorphoses de l’art de gouverner Michel Foucault au Collège de France – Vrin, September 2025 Entretien avec Jean-François Suratteau. Thanks to Foucault News for the links. Michel Foucault est un auteur polymorphe, qui a su toucher, par ses … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gusdorf, Foucault, Wolff, Ellenberger, Ramnoux, Dosse, Mabon

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Books bought new or second-hand – Georges Gusdorf, Le crépuscule des illusions; Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites; Étienne Wolff, Les Changements de sexe; François Ellenberger, Histoire de la géologie 1; Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, … Continue reading →

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