Category Archives: People

Koyré in Cairo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’, Theory, Culture & Society special issue – all papers currently free to access

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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Working on the proofs of the critical edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna – forthcoming in December 2024 with HAU books

It has taken a long time to get to this stage, but I’m now working on the proofs of the critical edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty – forthcoming in December 2024 with … Continue reading

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Books received – The Anti-Security Collective, Barthes, de Beistegui, Duchesne-Guillemin, Nabokov, JHI, Barua, Dumézil

A pile of recently bought or sent books including The Anti-Security Collective, The Security Abolition Manifesto, Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Zoroastre, Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of The Song of Igor’s Campaign, the most recent issue of the … Continue reading

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