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Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday – and some thoughts on Elden and Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography (2011)

Posted on April 22, 2024 by stuartelden

It’s Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday today. I’ve not written much on Kant, but he was the topic of perhaps my favourite of the essay collections I’ve edited or co-edited – Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Reading Kant’s Geography, SUNY … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et je n’ai écrit sur Nietzsche qu’un tout … Continue reading →

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Thinking Global Podcast – Quentin Skinner at E-International Relations

Posted on April 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Thinking Global Podcast – Quentin Skinner at E-International Relations This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London – @QMHistory) speaks with the team about contextualism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and more. Professor Skinner chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) … Continue reading →

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“Foucault and Structuralism” – a book chapter for Daniele Lorenzini’s collection The Foucauldian Mind

Posted on April 8, 2024 by stuartelden

I recently wrote a book chapter on “Foucault and Structuralism” for The Foucauldian Mind, edited by my friend and former Warwick colleague Daniele Lorenzini. It’s been an interesting diversion from the other work. Contrary to my usual practice, where I … Continue reading →

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Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) – book launch 16 April 2024, Pace University

Posted on April 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) – book launch 16 April 2024, Pace University

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Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No 307, 2024

Posted on April 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – special issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, edited by Federico Testa, No 307, 2024 Congratulations to Federico for bringing this issue together – it has taken a long time, but as … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault reviewed by David Beer in The Times Literary Supplement

Posted on April 4, 2024 by stuartelden

My 2023 book The Archaeology of Foucault is generously reviewed by David Beer in The Times Literary Supplement The review requires subscription, but email me if you can’t access a copy through an institution. Imagine Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes … Continue reading →

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Unintimidated Languages: Jameson at 90

Posted on April 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Unintimidated Languages: Jameson at 90 In honor of Fredric Jameson‘s 90th birthday this month, we’re publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson’s oeuvre. Here, Daniel Hartley revisits Jameson’s first book, Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961). … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, ‘The Subaltern in Gramsci’

Posted on April 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, ‘The Subaltern in Gramsci‘ Gramsci saw the whole of the Italian “South” as a kind of goblin, as a character who got and keeps getting a bad rap, like Rumpelstiltskin. In late 1926, a month or so prior … Continue reading →

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Mathieu Dejean, Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse – trans. David Fernbach, Verso blog 

Posted on March 31, 2024 by stuartelden

Mathieu Dejean, Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse – trans. David Fernbach, Verso blog (open access) In 1958, during the insurrectionary events that preceded General de Gaulle’s return to power, 57-year-old Henri Lefebvre faced two ‘comrades’ from the French Communist Party in … Continue reading →

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