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Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence -Cambridge University Press, February 2025 

Posted on October 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence – Cambridge University Press, February 2025  What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 24: Emile Benveniste’s archives of teaching and publishing, the Festschrift, and the Alexandre Koyré side-project

Posted on October 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update in September, I’ve continued working on the chapter of this project which looks at Benveniste and Dumézil’s parallel teaching careers at the Collège de France, through the 1950s and 1960s. This is the planned topic of an online Social … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes – Melusina, September 2004

Posted on October 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes, Melusina, September 2004 Pleased to hear that the Spanish translation of Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) has just been published. Many thanks to Albert Fuentes for the translation, and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Wittgenstein, Wahnich, Heidegger and Löwith, Alexander, Hill, Sebastian

Posted on October 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work from Rowan & Littlefield – Wittgenstein’s diaries, Wahnich, The French Revolution in Theory, the Heidegger and Löwith correspondence, a biography of WEB Du Bois, Leslie Hill, Nancy, Blanchot and Mihail Sebastian’s Journal … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024

Posted on October 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques 1961-1983, ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Flammarion/Vrin/INA, 2024 De 1961, date de son retour en France après plusieurs années passées en Suède, en Pologne et en Allemagne, jusqu’à la fin de sa vie, Michel Foucault a été très régulièrement … Continue reading →

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Trevor Wilson, Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy – Northwestern University Press, November 2024

Posted on October 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Trevor Wilson, Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy – Northwestern University Press, November 2024 Recounts Kojève’s key role in the pivotal exchange of ideas between Eastern and Western European intellectuals in the early twentieth century This book shines … Continue reading →

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Jacques Rancière in conversation with Oliver Davis – London, 12 November 2024

Posted on October 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Rancière in conversation with Oliver Davis – London, 12 November 2024 Meet French philosopher Jacques Rancière in conversation with Professor Oliver Davis (University College Cork). A leading philosopher and specialist of Marxist political philosophy and aesthetics, Jacques Rancière significantly contributed … Continue reading →

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“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem”, audio recording of my talk to the workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences

Posted on September 30, 2024 by stuartelden

“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem” – audio recording of my talk to workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences, University of Bristol, 26 September 2024 Thanks to Federico Testa and Pierre-Olivier Méthot for the … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Les plus vastes horizons du monde: Textes et images brésiliens (1935-1942) suivis de cinq films coréalisés avec Dina Dreyfus – eds. Samuel Titan and Carlos Augusto Calil, Editions Chandeigne, October 2024

Posted on September 29, 2024 by stuartelden

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Les plus vastes horizons du monde: Textes et images brésiliens (1935-1942) suivis de cinq films coréalisés avec Dina Dreyfus – eds. Samuel Titan and Carlos Augusto Calil, Editions Chandeigne, October 2024 Les plus vastes horizons du monde rassemblent dix … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin, On Goethe – ed. Susan Bernstein, Peter Fenves and Kevin McLaughlin, Stanford University Press, April 2025

Posted on September 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin, On Goethe – ed. Susan Bernstein, Peter Fenves and Kevin McLaughlin, Stanford University Press, April 2025 Thanks to Tim Howles for the link.

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