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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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Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self – trans. Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Posted on January 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024 Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes of the seminar, November 2023 and April 2024

Posted on January 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes, University of Chicago Press Volume I, translated by E. S. Burt, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, November 2023 Volume II, translated by Peggy Kamuf, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, April … Continue reading →

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Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian – Haymarket, March 2024, foreword by Naomi Klein

Posted on January 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian – Haymarket, March 2024 Available in print and e-book – and good to see the e-book priced much lower than the physical book. A revelatory and wide-ranging series of … Continue reading →

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“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” – English text of the Turkish preface

Posted on January 2, 2024 by stuartelden

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” was published in Theory, Culture & Society in 2017. The transcribed discussion was edited and introduced by me and there is an afterword by Jonathan Simon. This article … Continue reading →

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Some of my highlights on Progressive Geographies in 2023

Posted on January 1, 2024 by stuartelden

I didn’t publish much this past year – The Archaeology of Foucault has a 2023 date but was officially published in December 2022, and the special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Foucault was completed some time before. I … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

Posted on December 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 35, special issue on Covid – Biopolitical Tensions after Pandemic Times

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Peter Sloterdijk, Out of the World – Stanford University Press, May 2024

Posted on December 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, Out of the World – Stanford University Press, May 2024 In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity’s tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds … Continue reading →

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