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Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023

Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023 Just an expensive hardback only at this point unfortunately

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Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023

Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023 [update August 2025: the English translation On Painting is now published] De 1970 à 1987, Gilles Deleuze a donné un cours hebdomadaire à l’université expérimentale de Vincennes, puis de … Continue reading

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online via the Wayback Machine

Quite a while ago I posted about History of the Present, the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley. It used to be online via Rabinow’s Anthropos Lab. At … Continue reading

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Books received – Eilenberger, Durkheim, Lorenzini, Pietz, Culcasi, Guyau

Wolfram Eilenberger, Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger and the Great Decade of Philosophy; a somewhat battered copy of Émile Durkheim, Lettres à Marcel Mauss; and four books I’ve mentioned here before – Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of … Continue reading

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Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People – Duke University Press, September 2022 (introduction open access)

Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People – Duke University Press, September 2022 I’m late in noticing this book, published last year. The Introduction is available open access here. In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore … Continue reading

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Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020; and New Books discussion

Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020 There is a New Books discussion between the author, David Norman Smith, Peter Audis and Sean Sayers, moderated by Morteza Hajizadeh here. An … Continue reading

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Stuart Elden, “From the Archive to the Edited Translation: Lefebvre, Foucault, Dumézil”, audio recording from May 2023 workshop

Technical problems meant that there was unfortunately not a full recording of the Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, held at Senate House, London on 19 May 2023. I did however record my own talk on my … Continue reading

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Bernard E. Harcourt, Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory – Columbia University Press, May 2023

Bernard E. Harcourt, Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory – Columbia University Press, May 2023 Update there is a review at NDPR by Albert W. Dzur. Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems … Continue reading

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Hannah Richter, The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann – SUNY Press, October 2023

Hannah Richter, The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann – SUNY Press, October 2023 Just an expensive hardback at the moment… The Politics of Orientation provides the first substantial exploration of a surprising theoretical kinship and its rich political implications, between … Continue reading

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Marie-Eve Morin, Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology – Edinburgh University Press, July 2023 (paperback)

Marie-Eve Morin, Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology – Edinburgh University Press, July 2022 (hardback and e-book); July 2023 (paperback)

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