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Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography – Reaktion, July 2025

Posted on August 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography – Reaktion, July 2025 A complete portrait of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, who plumbed both science and imagination. This is the first English biography of Gaston Bachelard, a philosopher who bridged the worlds … Continue reading →

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Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026

Posted on July 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026 Now published – a major, and very expensive, reference work, though the e-book is less. I say a bit about my chapter, on Foucault and structuralism, here.

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Stanford University Press, August 2026

Posted on July 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Stanford University Press, August 2026 Thus Spoke Zarathustra stands alone among Nietzsche’s published works as a poetic and narrative rendering of his most sophisticated ideas through the medium of … Continue reading →

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Francis Dupuis-Déri – Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull, Between the Lines, June 2025

Posted on July 28, 2026 by stuartelden

Francis Dupuis-Déri – Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull, Between the Lines, June 2025 On November 16, 1980, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser strangled his wife in their Parisian apartment, in a period when she was … Continue reading →

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Books received (2) – Bloch, Wolff, Butler, Sloterdijk, Erdur, Klein-Gousseff, Ginzburg

Posted on July 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Two recent editions of texts by Marc Bloch, Étienne Wolff’s Science des monstres, two recent books by Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? and What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology, Peter Sloterdijk’s The Continent without Qualities: Bookmarks in the … Continue reading →

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Books received (1) – Bloch, Derrida, Patchin, Neale, Caló & Enes Pereira, Braudel

Posted on July 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Older books by Bloch and Braudel, bought second-hand, a reedition of three important texts by Derrida,  Force de loi, Voyous, Fichus, and the recent La Chose Séminaire (1975-1977) Suivi de la 6e séance de Donner le temps II, Paige Marie Patchin, … Continue reading →

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Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Louis Renou and a 1940 arrest by the Germans

Posted on July 26, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve written about Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940), an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology, briefly before in this series. From various accounts, there are two pieces of information about her. If both are true, then Renou (1896-1966) was arrested in 1940. But I’ve … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi, Puzzles: A Seminar on the ‘Benefit of Christ’ – trans. Thomas Haskell Simpson, Seagull, March 2026

Posted on July 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi, Puzzles: A Seminar on the ‘Benefit of Christ’ – trans. Thomas Haskell Simpson, Seagull, March 2026 I’ve previously shared some of the many tributes to Ginzburg, who died in June. I hadn’t seen that this … Continue reading →

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David Armitage, Teresa M. Bejan, and Felix Waldmann eds. The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives – Oxford University Press, July 2026

Posted on July 23, 2026 by stuartelden

David Armitage, Teresa M. Bejan, and Felix Waldmann eds. The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives – Oxford University Press, July 2026 The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives offers the most comprehensive collective overview of Locke’s political thought … Continue reading →

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Dimitrios Lais, Foucault’s Ethics of Genealogy: Antiquity, (Neo) Governmentality, and Globalisation – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2026

Posted on July 21, 2026 by stuartelden

Dimitrios Lais, Foucault’s Ethics of Genealogy: Antiquity, (Neo) Governmentality, and Globalisation – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2026 This book offers a bold reinterpretation of Michel Foucault’s late work, reconstructing him as an ethical philosopher whose account of antiquity provides crucial resources … Continue reading →

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