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Samuel Mercer, The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour – Brill, 2024

Posted on August 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Samuel Mercer, The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour – Brill, 2024 Expensive hardback and e-book only at present, but as with other volumes in the Historical Materialism series, to follow 12 months later as a paperback with … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 22: finishing a draft of a chapter on Dumézil between 1938 and 1949; continuing work on Benveniste’s archive; and an article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Posted on July 31, 2024 by stuartelden

July has been a steady month of progress on this project. I’d hoped to complete the chapter on Georges Dumézil’s work between 1938 and 1949 well before now, but it continued into this month too. It is another very long … Continue reading →

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Peter Osborne (ed.) Futurethoughts: Critical Histories of Philosophy – CRMEP, 2024 (open access; includes new translations of Foucault)

Posted on July 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Peter Osborne (ed.) Futurethoughts: Critical Histories of Philosophy – CRMEP, 2024 Available open access, this includes new translations of Foucault – parts of his 1950s course on anthropology and his tribute to Jean Hyppolite. Contributors: Isabelle Alfandary, Éric Alliez, Anna … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s revised texts – a list with links to comparisons

Posted on July 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault did not continually revise his earlier texts in the way some other authors do. But some of his books and articles do exist in different versions. This is not always fully recognised, and some of these changes are … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis, The Intruder – trans. Jeff Fort, Fordham University Press, May 2024

Posted on July 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis, The Intruder – trans. Jeff Fort, Fordham University Press, May 2024 In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy’s heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger’s heart was grafted into his body. … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité – ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Vrin, September 2024

Posted on July 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité – ed. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, Vrin, September 2024 A really important collection of material around the early stages of the History of Sexuality, including insights into volumes not published, and a critical … Continue reading →

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Posted on July 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms underlying … Continue reading →

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Steve Stakland (ed.), The Phenomenology of Play: Encountering Eugen Fink – Bloomsbury, July 2024

Posted on July 21, 2024 by stuartelden

Steve Stakland (ed.), The Phenomenology of Play: Encountering Eugen Fink – Bloomsbury, July 2024 Eugen Fink’s deep engagement with the phenomenon of play saw him transcend his two towering mentors, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, to become a crucial figure … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rose, Sartre, Koyré, Benveniste, Greimas, Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2024 by stuartelden

The reedition of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work; Sartre’s Literary and Philosophical Essays; the Mélanges collections for Alexandre Koyré and Emile Benveniste; Algirdas Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology; and Foucault’s Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by … Continue reading →

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Joseph Acquisto, Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset – Bloomsbury, July 2024

Posted on July 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Joseph Acquisto, Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset – Bloomsbury, July 2024 Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social world.Joseph Acquisto analyzes the writings of three thinkers during … Continue reading →

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