Category Archives: People

The rediscovery of the typescripts of Foucault’s History of Madness and introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault

Posted on March 5, 2025 by stuartelden

This is very interesting – the discovery of typescript versions of Foucault’s History of Madness and introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault – Emmanuel le Doeff, À la découverte des thèses annotées de Michel Foucault (open access, … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism (open access)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. This developed out of the work that went into Henri … Continue reading →

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Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025

Posted on March 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025 Il volume affronta la concezione del normale e del patologico nel pensiero sociologico francese, in particolare in Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim e Maurice Halbwachs, attraverso … Continue reading →

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The Friendship between Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré

Posted on March 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Although they both studied in Germany, and were among those who attended Heidegger’s lecture courses in the 1920s, Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré didn’t meet at that time. (Arendt attended lectures in 1924-26 in Marburg; Koyré in 1928-29 in Freiburg.) Their first … Continue reading →

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Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson’s Contributions to Linguistics – audio recording from 1983

Posted on February 26, 2025 by stuartelden

In the NYU archives today, I read the typescript of a lecture given by Edmund Leach about Roman Jakobson at the New York Institute for the Humanities, and wondered if it had been published. One better, the audio recording of … Continue reading →

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Iain D. Thomson, Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger – Cambridge University Press, December 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Iain D. Thomson, Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger – Cambridge University Press, December 2024 New Books discussion with Stephen Dozeman. Thanks to dmf for the link. Iain D. Thomson is renowned for radically rethinking Heidegger’s views on metaphysics, technology, … Continue reading →

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Stefanos Geroulanos, ‘In Memoriam: Anson Rabinbach (1945–2025)’

Posted on February 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Stefanos Geroulanos, ‘In Memoriam: Anson Rabinbach (1945–2025)‘ – JHI Blog; originally at Mosse Program Blog

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Walter B. Henning, Robert Oppenheimer, Ernst Kantorowicz, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Khwarezmian Dictionary Project

Posted on February 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Walter Bruno Henning spent part of the 1955-56 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His project at the time was described by him as “Analysis of the Khwarezmian language; collection of material for the Corpus Inscriptionem … Continue reading →

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“Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations: Between Archaeology and Genealogy” – forthcoming in Philosophy, Politics and Critique

Posted on February 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Out soon – “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations: Between Archaeology and Genealogy” – forthcoming in Philosophy, Politics and Critique Update May 2025: it is now published here. The article requires subscription, but as ever please email me if you don’t … Continue reading →

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Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School, trans. Fabio Gironi, Brill, July 2025

Posted on February 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School, trans. Fabio Gironi, Brill, July 2025 Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction is the first book-length examination of the theses developed by Louis Althusser and his collaborators on the … Continue reading →

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