Category Archives: People

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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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Review of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil

My review of Marcelo Hoffman’s remarkable book Foucault in Brazil is scheduled to appear in Political Theory next year, but is now available online first. Many thanks to Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for asking me to write the review, and Marcelo for … Continue reading

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Canguilhem-Koyré-Gottmann

Most of my recent trip to Paris was for the Indo-European project, but I also did a little work on Alexandre Koyré, which is becoming something of a side project (see the posts Koyré in Cairo, Koyré and a Network … Continue reading

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