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Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity –  Cornell University Press, June 2026

Posted on April 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche, A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity –  Cornell University Press, June 2026 A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland … Continue reading →

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Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil

Posted on April 5, 2026 by stuartelden

The philosopher, literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot’s politics have come under periodic scrutiny. Leslie Hill describes the source of the controversy:  As early as 1931 and 1932, while starting out with the Journal des débats, Blanchot was writing political articles … Continue reading →

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The Story of Capital: Book Launch with David Harvey in Conversation with Adam Tooze

Posted on April 3, 2026 by stuartelden

The Story of Capital: Book Launch with David Harvey in Conversation with Adam Tooze – discussing The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works (Verso, 2026), via Reading Capital with David Harvey

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Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon

Posted on April 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon, describing it as “the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s lectures in Buffalo – audio recordings of the 1972 course and part of the 1970 course online

Posted on April 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Foucault’s lectures in Buffalo – audio recordings of the 1972 course and part of the 1970 one are now available online. The 1972 course has recently been transcribed as Histoire de la vérité, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera. … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1972 visit to Attica prison

Posted on March 29, 2026 by stuartelden

In April 1972, during his second teaching visit to SUNY Buffalo, Michel Foucault visited Attica prison. The two visits to Buffalo are important for his teaching, which I discuss briefly here and in more detail in a piece in Foucault Studies. Leonhard Riep discusses … Continue reading →

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The limited copies of the 1940 edition of Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna

Posted on March 22, 2026 by stuartelden

In 1943, the American librarian and Sanskrit scholar Horace Poleman wrote a review of Georges Dumézil’s 1940 book Mitra-Varuna: Essai sur deux représentations indo-européennes de la souveraineté for the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Interestingly, given the accusations made of Dumézil’s politics, Poleman … Continue reading →

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The Books on Territory I Didn’t Write, and the Related Articles I Did

Posted on March 15, 2026 by stuartelden

At various points over the last twenty-five years or so, I’ve debated writing different books on territory. Many of the articles I’ve written on this topic were early versions of parts of the books I did write on territory, but … Continue reading →

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Benjamin Arditi, The Book of Others: Schmitt, Althusser, Laclau, Rancière and Politics – Routledge, October 2025

Posted on March 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Benjamin Arditi, The Book of Others: Schmitt, Althusser, Laclau, Rancière and Politics – Routledge, October 2025 In The Book of Others, Benjamin Arditi examines the enduring theoretical influence of four major political thinkers—Carl Schmitt, Louis Althusser, Ernesto Laclau, and Jacques Rancière—whom … Continue reading →

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International Women’s Day: ‘Women Reading Deleuze’ virtual theme issue

Posted on March 9, 2026 by stuartelden

International Women’s Day: Women Reading Deleuze – virtual theme issue from Edinburgh University Press To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, we are excited to showcase a selection of free-to-read journal articles from Deleuze and Guattari Studies, posts on the Edinburgh … Continue reading →

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