Category Archives: People

Review of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil

Posted on September 25, 2024 by stuartelden

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

Posted on September 22, 2024 by stuartelden

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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Koyré in Cairo

Posted on September 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Update May 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. There are many things I find interesting in the life and work of Alexandre Koyré, and I’ve already published on … Continue reading →

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Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, May 2024) – London book launch October 3, 2024

Posted on September 18, 2024 by stuartelden

Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, May 2024 What comes after citizenship? A discussion with Gargi Bhattacharyya, Rachel Humphris Jef Huysmans, Engin Isin, and Nivi Manchanda, Sivamohan Valluvan as part of (B)OrderS Book Forum at Queen Mary University of London.  Thursday, … Continue reading →

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Interviews with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1

Posted on September 17, 2024 by stuartelden

I posted about one of these interviews a couple of days ago, but there are a couple more now available: The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, … Continue reading →

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The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 – Journal of the History of Ideas blog; Wendy Brown’s foreword

Posted on September 11, 2024 by stuartelden

The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 – Journal of the History of Ideas blog Details of the new translation from Princeton University Press are … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 23: Emile Benveniste and Georges Dumézil at the Collège de France, and an article on Alexandre Koyré

Posted on September 9, 2024 by stuartelden

The chapter I’m currently working on for the Mapping Indo-European Thought project is a study of the two decades Benveniste and Dumézil were teaching in parallel at the Collège de France. I’ve been concentrating on Dumézil so far, but I plan to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Koyré, Meillet, Rose, Barry, Moyn

Posted on September 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently bought second-hand books, including Gillian Rose’s The Broken Middle, James Barry, Measures of Science, and Samuel Moyn, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics. Top of the pile is a first edition of Alexandre Koyré’s … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome VI : Écrits philosophiques complémentaires, conférences publiques, lettres choisies – Vrin, November 2024

Posted on September 2, 2024 by stuartelden
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‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’, Theory, Culture & Society special issue – all papers currently free to access

Posted on August 30, 2024 by stuartelden

If you missed the 2023 Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society on ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘, which I edited with Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera… All papers are open access or free access at the moment Papers … Continue reading →

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