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Beverley Best, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital – Verso, May 2024

Posted on June 19, 2024 by stuartelden

Beverley Best, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital – Verso, May 2024 Why the neglected third volume of Capital holds the key to Marx’s theory of value The Automatic Fetish traces Marx’s analysis of capital, step by step, through … Continue reading →

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The chaos of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations

Posted on June 17, 2024 by stuartelden

I just looked for an essay in one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. What a chaotic mess the different editions and translations are. The English text with the title Situations (1965) is a partial translation of volume IV. Qu’est-ce que la … Continue reading →

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Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, February 2025

Posted on June 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, February 2025 Very good to see this book scheduled. (update May 2025: it is now scheduled for August 2025. I’ve added the cover.) ‘Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account … Continue reading →

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Journée d’étude: Relire Canguilhem à partir des inédits – ENS-PSL, Paris 18 juin 2024

Posted on June 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Journée d’étude: Relire Canguilhem à partir des inédits – ENS-PSL, Paris 18 juin 2024

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Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Idea – Cambridge University Press, November 2024

Posted on June 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Idea – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 20: writing about Dumézil and Benveniste’s archives

Posted on May 31, 2024 by stuartelden

In the previous update on the research for this project, I said I had begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. That has also been the main focus on this last month too, trying … Continue reading →

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CFP: Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles – 18-19 October 2024, Vienna

Posted on May 30, 2024 by stuartelden

CFP: Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles (2024)

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Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture: Detour to the Imaginary – edited by Gilane Tawadros, Duke University Press, August 2024

Posted on May 29, 2024 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture: Detour to the Imaginary – edited by Gilane Tawadros, Duke University Press, August 2024 Stuart Hall’s work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally … Continue reading →

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Books received – Mendieta, Geroulanos, Meillet, Dumézil, and Paxton, Carpet & Paulhan

Posted on May 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Two books by friends – Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory and Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal, the reprint edition of Antoine Meillet’s Linguistique historique et linguistique générale, a hard-to-find copy of Georges Dumézil’s Aspects de la fonction guerrière chez … Continue reading →

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Pierre-Frédéric Daled, Mathias Girel and Nathalie Queroux (eds.), Georges Canguilhem, 80 ans après Le Normal et le pathologique – Éditions rue d’Ulm, May 2024

Posted on May 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Pierre-Frédéric Daled, Mathias Girel and Nathalie Queroux (eds.), Georges Canguilhem, 80 ans après Le Normal et le pathologique – Éditions rue d’Ulm, May 2024 En 1943, au terme d’études de médecine entamées en 1936, l’agrégé de philosophie Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) … Continue reading →

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