Category Archives: People

Eric S. Nelson, Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom – Bloomsbury, November 2023

Posted on May 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Eric S. Nelson, Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom – Bloomsbury, November 2023 In this innovative contribution, Eric S. Nelson offers a contextualized and systematic exploration of the Chinese sources and German language interpretations that shaped Heidegger’s engagement with Daoism … Continue reading →

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Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access)

Posted on May 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access) From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of … Continue reading →

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Camus journaliste – Le blog de Gallica

Posted on May 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Camus journaliste – Le blog de Gallica L’activité journalistique d’Albert Camus illustre son sens de l’engagement avant, pendant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il utilise la presse comme peu d’écrivains l’ont fait pour dénoncer les injustices et les violences … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Thinking What Comes, eds. Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi, two volumes, Edinburgh University Press, March 2024

Posted on May 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Thinking What Comes, eds. Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi, two volumes, Edinburgh University Press, March 2024 – volume 1; volume 2 In two volumes, Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi present the majority of Jacques Derrida’s untranslated, and previously uncollected, essays and interviews. … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 19: back to Dumézil, politics, and Benveniste in Persia and Afghanistan

Posted on April 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project, I have begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. This is another fascinating period, partly because of the range of books he published – 14 in 11 … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Carlo Ginzburg, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series

Posted on April 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Jameson at 90: A Verso Blog Series Fredric Jameson turns 90 years old this month. To celebrate this milestone, we’re publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson’s oeuvre. Daniel Hartley on Sartre: The Origins of a … Continue reading →

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Antonio Negri, Story of a Communist: A Memoir – trans. Ed Emery, ed. Girolamo De Michele, Columbia University Press, October 2024

Posted on April 29, 2024 by stuartelden

Antonio Negri, Story of a Communist: A Memoir – trans. Ed Emery, ed. Girolamo De Michele, Columbia University Press, October 2024 The philosopher Antonio Negri was one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and … Continue reading →

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David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (eds.), Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise – De Gruyter, April 2024

Posted on April 28, 2024 by stuartelden

David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (eds.), Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise – De Gruyter, April 2024 Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most … Continue reading →

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Books received – Chevallier, Behrent, Testa, Bloch & Febvre, Kadercan, Barthes, Koyré

Posted on April 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books I’ve mentioned here recently – Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le christianisme: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years; Federico Testa (ed.), Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – a special issue of Revue … Continue reading →

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Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism – SUNY Press, June 2024

Posted on April 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal: On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism – SUNY Press, June 2024 – part of the SUNY Press Open Access series

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