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Gillian Rose, Love’s Work – Penguin reissue and discussion

Posted on July 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Gillian Rose’s classic book, Love’s Work was reissued by Penguin earlier this year. There was a discussion of the book and her work generally at the London Review Bookshop with James Butler, Rebekah Howes and Rowan Williams – available here. … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present – Verso, May 2024

Posted on July 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson, Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 – now published The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more … Continue reading →

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Maya Krishnan on the legacy of Gillian Rose

Posted on July 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Maya Krishnan, The Risk of the Universal: The Philosophy of Gillian Rose

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France – audio recordings being posted online

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Today is the fortieth anniversary of Foucault’s death. The Collège de France are putting the surviving audio recordings of his lectures online – Le Pouvoir psychiatrique is up now, with others to follow. I’ve previously listed audio and video recordings … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Koyré, Meillet, Gilmartin, Hubbard, Kitchin and Roberts, and Foucault

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre’s Modern Times, older second-hand books by Alexandre Koyré and Antoine Meillet, the new edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, and Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024. I am one of the new … Continue reading →

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A detailed comparison of Michel Foucault’s Two Texts on Georges Canguilhem

Posted on June 24, 2024 by stuartelden

In 1978, Foucault contributed an introduction to the English translation of Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological. The French version is included in Dits et écrits as text 219. (No translator is indicated, which suggests the editors had access to the original … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations – beginning of a list of essays and translations

Posted on June 22, 2024 by stuartelden

I previously grumbled about how hard it was to navigate Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. I went looking for an essay in the French, only to find it was in one volume of the original edition and a different volume of the revised edition. I … Continue reading →

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Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things – Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024 

Posted on June 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things – Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024  I almost missed this, given the subtitle, but Gandal was one … Continue reading →

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Marco Filoni and Massimo Palma (eds.), Tyrants at Work: Philosophy and Politics in Alexandre Kojève – Editions ETS, 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by stuartelden

Marco Filoni and Massimo Palma (eds.), Tyrants at Work: Philosophy and Politics in Alexandre Kojève – Editions ETS, 2024 (print and open access) This volume wants to restore the depth and contradictions – both theoretical and biographical, political and speculative – of … Continue reading →

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