Category Archives: People

Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024 Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a rationalist … Continue reading →

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Call for Abstracts – Michel Foucault and Phenomenology: The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis

Posted on November 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Call for Abstracts: Michel Foucault and Phenomenology The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis Keynote Speakers: Philippe Sabot, Elisabetta Basso, Christophe Bouton The Southern Journal of Philosophyhttps://foucault40.info How is Michel Foucault’s thought related to the tradition … Continue reading →

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Jenny Turner reviews Gillian Rose, Marxism Modernism and Love’s Work at London Review of Books

Posted on November 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Jenny Turner reviews Gillian Rose, Marxism Modernism and Love’s Work at London Review of Books

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024

Posted on November 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 The book is now available for sale, in print or e-book via … Continue reading →

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Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle – Polity Press, December 2023 and New Books Discussion

Posted on November 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle – Polity Press, December 2023 New Books Discussion with Dave O’Brien – thanks to dmf for the link Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst … Continue reading →

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Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024 Shame about the prohibitive price… Michel Foucault is rarely viewed as a philosopher of technology, yet academics and students routinely refer to his terms ‘technologies of power’, ‘governmental technologies’, and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bradley, Konings, Nail, Adey, TCS

Posted on November 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books previously mentioned here, sent by publishers – Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy; Martijn Konings, The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People; Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction; Peter Adey, Evacuation: The Politics … Continue reading →

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Rhodri Lewis, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art – Princeton University Press, October 2024

Posted on November 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Rhodri Lewis, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art – Princeton University Press, October 2024 In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it—of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies distinctive, and why … Continue reading →

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Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa (eds.), Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century – MIT Press, March 2024

Posted on November 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa (eds.), Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century – MIT Press, March 2024 A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century. Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949-51 – ed. Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano, trans. Chris Turner – Seagull, December 2024

Posted on November 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949-51 – ed. Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano, trans. Chris Turner – Seagull, December 2024 An introduction for English-language readers to Georges Bataille’s postwar philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of World War … Continue reading →

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