Category Archives: People

The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio)

Posted on November 19, 2024 by stuartelden

The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio) Thanks to Robert Lucas Scott for the link. Update 21 November: I should have given the link to the transcription published in Theory, Culture and Society in 2008, edited by Vincent Lloyd. It’s … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Derrida, Arendt and Scholem

Posted on November 18, 2024 by stuartelden

Books sent in recompense for review work for University of Chicago Press – three of the four volumes of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologies (the other one is out of print), Michel Foucault, What is Critique? and The Culture of the Self, … Continue reading →

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Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

Posted on November 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Derrida at NYU, 21 November 2024 – online and in-person

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Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024 Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a rationalist … Continue reading →

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Call for Abstracts – Michel Foucault and Phenomenology: The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis

Posted on November 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Call for Abstracts: Michel Foucault and Phenomenology The Southern Journal of Philosophy Workshop March 27-28, 2025, The University of Memphis Keynote Speakers: Philippe Sabot, Elisabetta Basso, Christophe Bouton The Southern Journal of Philosophyhttps://foucault40.info How is Michel Foucault’s thought related to the tradition … Continue reading →

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Jenny Turner reviews Gillian Rose, Marxism Modernism and Love’s Work at London Review of Books

Posted on November 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Jenny Turner reviews Gillian Rose, Marxism Modernism and Love’s Work at London Review of Books

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024

Posted on November 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 The book is now available for sale, in print or e-book via … Continue reading →

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Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle – Polity Press, December 2023 and New Books Discussion

Posted on November 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle – Polity Press, December 2023 New Books Discussion with Dave O’Brien – thanks to dmf for the link Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst … Continue reading →

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Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Kaspar Villadsen, Foucault’s Technologies – Oxford University Press, November 2024 Shame about the prohibitive price… Michel Foucault is rarely viewed as a philosopher of technology, yet academics and students routinely refer to his terms ‘technologies of power’, ‘governmental technologies’, and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bradley, Konings, Nail, Adey, TCS

Posted on November 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books previously mentioned here, sent by publishers – Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy; Martijn Konings, The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People; Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction; Peter Adey, Evacuation: The Politics … Continue reading →

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