Category Archives: People

Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Goblin – on the notebooks and his translations of the Brothers Grimm fairytales

Posted on February 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Goblin It’s easy to miss the Fondazione Gramsci, tucked away off the street in a little building along via Sebino, at number 43A, in Rome’s Trieste neighborhood. Its glass door entrance lies at the end of a … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 17: Contextualising Benveniste

Posted on February 12, 2024 by stuartelden

In my chapter on Émile Benveniste from roughly 1934 to 1949, I’ve been finding all sorts of interesting things to explore. Looking for some of Benveniste’s early publications in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris led me to do … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present – Verso, May 2024 and Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory, ed. Octavian Esanu – Repeater, 2024

Posted on February 10, 2024 by stuartelden

As if the book The Years of Theory I posted about earlier this week wasn’t enough, two more works by Fredric Jameson this year… Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 [updated to … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024

Posted on February 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024 Le 11 juin 1949, Foucault soutient en Sorbonne son mémoire de diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. Séminaire (1991-1992) – Seuil, February 2024

Posted on February 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. Séminaire (1991-1992) – Seuil, February 2024 «Le secret, dit-on, c’est ce qui ne se dit pas » : c’est sur cette phrase que s’ouvre le séminaire Répondre – du secret, le tout premier de la série … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Lectures on Modern French Thought – Verso, October 2024

Posted on February 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Lectures on Modern French Thought – Verso, October 2024 No other information at the moment, but it is 544 pages long…

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Books received – Kojève, Mac Cumhaill & Wiseman, Bakewell, Foucault & Simon, Bloch, Brunet & Mahrer, Adluri & Bagchee

Posted on January 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books, nearly all second-hand, and mostly connected to my Mapping Indo-European Thought project. Also includes the Turkish translation of the dialogue between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon, which I edited, and to which I contributed a new … Continue reading →

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CFP: Pocockian Moments: A Symposium on the Centenary of J.G.A. Pocock – online, 20-21 May 2024

Posted on January 24, 2024 by stuartelden

CFP: Pocockian Moments: A Symposium on the Centenary of J.G.A. Pocock – online, 20-21 May 2024 The voluminous work of the late J. G. A. Pocock (1924-2023) challenged, redefined, and fashioned multiple fields of study, offering successive moments of transformation in … Continue reading →

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Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023

Posted on January 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023 (requires subscription) From the Editor: Foucault and Arethusa Roger D. Woodard Introduction Simon Goldhill A Self-Interested Reader? Foucault and Imperial Greek Technical Texts Claire Hall Elephants, Christians, and Pagans in … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, Kant, trans. Hager Weslati – Verso, May 2024

Posted on January 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Alexandre Kojève, Kant, trans. Hager Weslati – Verso, May 2024 The French publication was with Gallimard in 1973. Kant forms the centerpiece of Alexandre Kojeve’s intriguing discovery of objective reality and its repressed history in Western philosophy During the early … Continue reading →

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