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Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, May 2024

Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, May 2024 This book outlines a critical theory of citizenship, with an emphasis on how citizenship institutes power relations and organises the rights and obligations of those who become its subjects. … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (complete edition; three volumes in one) – L’Arche, April 2024

Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (complete edition; three volumes in one) – L’Arche, April 2024 In English translation, Verso have long had a complete edition in a single volume, but I think this is the first complete edition … Continue reading

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Bibliothèque nationale de France – famous reader cards, including Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes

Chroniques de la BnF 100 has some of the Bibliothèque Nationale’s famous reader’s cards Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes are online at the link. I previously shared Foucault’s card, with an attempt to decipher what it meant. Here’s … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 Out at the end of this month. « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et … Continue reading

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Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, hors-série Les Essentiels 16, April-May 2024

Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024 Il y a quarante ans, le 25 juin 1984, Michel Foucault disparaissait, emporté par le sida. Il avait 57 ans. Cette mort interrompait une existence prolifique et turbulente. Bâtir une … Continue reading

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Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century – Toronto, 29-30 May 2024

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International Dunhuang Programme new website

“After three decades of pioneering research, the IDP launches a new and improved website” – British Library Asian and African studies blog The International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) has launched a new website, where you can view over 150,000 Central and … Continue reading

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The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, original translation by James Strachey, revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms – Rowman & Littlefield, June 2024

The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, original translation by James Strachey, revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms – Rowman & Littlefield, June 2024 The physical set doesn’t come cheap – $1,950.00 or £1,500.00! … Continue reading

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Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024

Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024 update May 2025: New Books network discussion with Lily Goren Across Italy in the nineteenth century, a generation of intellectuals engaged with … Continue reading

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Books received – Politzer, Nelson, Keshavarzian, Daix, Livingstone

Michel Politzer, Les Trois morts de Georges Politzer, William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics and the Making of Citizens, Arang Keshavarzian, Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East, Pierre Daix’s biography … Continue reading

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