Category Archives: People

Posted on May 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Path to the Possible:
I recently did a book review of State, Space, World, a collection of Henri Lefebvre’s work edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden (who blogs at Progressive Geographies).  The review is in Social…

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Eric Santner – The Royal Remains

Posted on May 11, 2012 by stuartelden

I previously knew Santner’s work from his study of Sebald, On Creaturely Life. This more recent book covers similar ground to the Manow book I mentioned a few days ago – the persistence of the ‘two bodies’ idea explored by … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
For full details and the conference poster please visit the Conference website Colloque international MICHEL FOUCAULT DU GOUVERNEMENT DES VIVANTS AU COURAGE DE LA VÉRITÉ Université Paris-Est Créteil/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne    21-22 juin 2012…

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Philip Manow, In the King’s Shadow

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

I picked up this 2010 book from Polity as part of the recompense for a reader report. I’m glad I did – it’s a very interesting examination of the political body after the end of the medieval King’s Two Bodies … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman – The Least of All Possible Evils

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Out soon Now out with Verso: The principle of the “lesser evil”—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

University of Chicago Press finally have a page up for the translation of Foucault’s 1981 lectures at Louvain – Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. They are due out in January 2013. Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler, Parting Ways

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler’s long-awaited book on Jewish and Zionist thought is forthcoming in July. Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism will be published by Columbia University Press. Judith Butler follows Edward Said’s late suggestion that through a consideration of … Continue reading →

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Agamben, Highest Poverty draft preface

Posted on May 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has made available the preface to Agamben’s Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Forms of Life He previously made the preface to Opus Dei available. Both books are being translated for Stanford UP. More here.

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Sloterdijk – You Must Change Your Life

Posted on May 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The English translation of Sloterdijk’s book is scheduled for November – full details here.

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Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

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