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Jacques Rancière in conversation with Oliver Davis – London, 12 November 2024

Posted on October 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Rancière in conversation with Oliver Davis – London, 12 November 2024 Meet French philosopher Jacques Rancière in conversation with Professor Oliver Davis (University College Cork). A leading philosopher and specialist of Marxist political philosophy and aesthetics, Jacques Rancière significantly contributed … Continue reading →

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“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem”, audio recording of my talk to the workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences

Posted on September 30, 2024 by stuartelden

“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem” – audio recording of my talk to workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences, University of Bristol, 26 September 2024 Thanks to Federico Testa and Pierre-Olivier Méthot for the … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Les plus vastes horizons du monde: Textes et images brésiliens (1935-1942) suivis de cinq films coréalisés avec Dina Dreyfus – eds. Samuel Titan and Carlos Augusto Calil, Editions Chandeigne, October 2024

Posted on September 29, 2024 by stuartelden

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Les plus vastes horizons du monde: Textes et images brésiliens (1935-1942) suivis de cinq films coréalisés avec Dina Dreyfus – eds. Samuel Titan and Carlos Augusto Calil, Editions Chandeigne, October 2024 Les plus vastes horizons du monde rassemblent dix … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin, On Goethe – ed. Susan Bernstein, Peter Fenves and Kevin McLaughlin, Stanford University Press, April 2025

Posted on September 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin, On Goethe – ed. Susan Bernstein, Peter Fenves and Kevin McLaughlin, Stanford University Press, April 2025 Thanks to Tim Howles for the link.

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Review of Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil

Posted on September 25, 2024 by stuartelden

My review of Marcelo Hoffman’s remarkable book Foucault in Brazil is scheduled to appear in Political Theory next year, but is now available online first. Many thanks to Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for asking me to write the review, and Marcelo for … Continue reading →

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Canguilhem-Koyré-Gottmann

Posted on September 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Most of my recent trip to Paris was for the Indo-European project, but I also did a little work on Alexandre Koyré, which is becoming something of a side project (see the posts Koyré in Cairo, Koyré and a Network … Continue reading →

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Koyré in Cairo

Posted on September 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Update May 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. There are many things I find interesting in the life and work of Alexandre Koyré, and I’ve already published on … Continue reading →

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Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, May 2024) – London book launch October 3, 2024

Posted on September 18, 2024 by stuartelden

Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, May 2024 What comes after citizenship? A discussion with Gargi Bhattacharyya, Rachel Humphris Jef Huysmans, Engin Isin, and Nivi Manchanda, Sivamohan Valluvan as part of (B)OrderS Book Forum at Queen Mary University of London.  Thursday, … Continue reading →

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Interviews with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1

Posted on September 17, 2024 by stuartelden

I posted about one of these interviews a couple of days ago, but there are a couple more now available: The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, … Continue reading →

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The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 – Journal of the History of Ideas blog; Wendy Brown’s foreword

Posted on September 11, 2024 by stuartelden

The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 – Journal of the History of Ideas blog Details of the new translation from Princeton University Press are … Continue reading →

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