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Books received – Sartre, Mbembe, Miéville, Jameson, Senghor, Luna

Posted on October 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre, Politics and Literature; Achille Mbembe, La communauté terrestre; China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto; the reissue of Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form; Léopold Sédar Senghor, Writings on Politics and The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault, Turkish translation by Duygu Yurttașen – Foucault’nun Arkeolojisi, Ayrinti, 2026

Posted on October 6, 2026 by stuartelden

My 2023 book The Archaeology of Foucault has been translated into Turkish – Foucault’nun Arkeolojisi, trans. Duygu Yurttașen, Istanbul: Ayrinti, 2026. The cover uses one of the images from Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Le Carceri d’Invenzione. Some of the other books in my … Continue reading →

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Further challenges with the references to Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic

Posted on October 4, 2026 by stuartelden

In an earlier post in this series I discussed a misplaced reference in Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic, where Foucault’s reference pointed to a book by S.A.D. Tissot but the actual source of the quotation was a text by Archibald Pitcairn. In that … Continue reading →

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Iulian Apostolescu ed. The Play of Being: New Perspectives on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenological Project – Brill, October 2026

Posted on October 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Iulian Apostolescu ed. The Play of Being: New Perspectives on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenological Project – Brill, October 2026 The aim of this collection of essays is to explore Eugen Fink’s legacy and the potentialities of his phenomenological project for contemporary … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem, Saggi di epistemologia e storia della scienze, ed. Giuseppe Sertoli, intro. Raffaele Grandoni – Edizioni ETS, September 2026

Posted on October 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Georges Canguilhem, Saggi di epistemologia e storia della scienze, ed. Giuseppe Sertoli, intro. Raffaele Grandoni – Edizioni ETS, September 2026 Pleased to see this collection published, one which Canguilhem himself originally conceived for an Italian audience, with an introduction by … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre, Cours de philosophie de terminale pris sous la dictée par son élève Maurice Mermet. Lycée Condorcet, 1942-1943, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, September 2026

Posted on October 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre, Cours de philosophie de terminale pris sous la dictée par son élève Maurice Mermet. Lycée Condorcet, 1942-1943, ed. Jean-François Louette, Paris: Gallimard, September 2026 Maurice Mermet a seize ans à la rentrée scolaire de 1942. Venu de Lyon, il … Continue reading →

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Giulia Bernard, Bojana Jovicevic and Karen Koch eds. Hegel and Feminism – Bloomsbury, October 2026

Posted on October 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Giulia Bernard, Bojana Jovicevic and Karen Koch eds. Hegel and Feminism – Bloomsbury, October 2026 Whilst much previous writing on Hegel has focused on his social and political philosophy, this volume makes it clear that feminist issues are relevant to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bagnato, Mandrou, Ginzburg, Puaud, Favret-Saada, Wilson

Posted on September 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape; Robert Mandrou, From Humanism to Science 1480-1700; Carlo Ginzburg, Fear Reverence Terror; David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse, Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 … Continue reading →

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Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain – Edinburgh University Press, October 2026

Posted on September 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain – Edinburgh University Press, October 2026

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Working with the Michel Foucault archives – a brief guide to what is in Paris, Normandy, Berkeley and elsewhere

Posted on September 27, 2026 by stuartelden

I am sometimes contacted by people who want advice about working with Michel Foucault’s archives. Although I’m generally happy to try to help, and there are others who are better placed to advise on specifics, I thought it might be … Continue reading →

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