Category Archives: People

Books received – Mendieta, Geroulanos, Meillet, Dumézil, and Paxton, Carpet & Paulhan

Posted on May 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Two books by friends – Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory and Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal, the reprint edition of Antoine Meillet’s Linguistique historique et linguistique générale, a hard-to-find copy of Georges Dumézil’s Aspects de la fonction guerrière chez … Continue reading →

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Pierre-Frédéric Daled, Mathias Girel and Nathalie Queroux (eds.), Georges Canguilhem, 80 ans après Le Normal et le pathologique – Éditions rue d’Ulm, May 2024

Posted on May 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Pierre-Frédéric Daled, Mathias Girel and Nathalie Queroux (eds.), Georges Canguilhem, 80 ans après Le Normal et le pathologique – Éditions rue d’Ulm, May 2024 En 1943, au terme d’études de médecine entamées en 1936, l’agrégé de philosophie Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) … Continue reading →

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Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, May 2024

Posted on May 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Engin Isin, Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, May 2024 This book outlines a critical theory of citizenship, with an emphasis on how citizenship institutes power relations and organises the rights and obligations of those who become its subjects. … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (complete edition; three volumes in one) – L’Arche, April 2024

Posted on May 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (complete edition; three volumes in one) – L’Arche, April 2024 In English translation, Verso have long had a complete edition in a single volume, but I think this is the first complete edition … Continue reading →

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Bibliothèque nationale de France – famous reader cards, including Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes

Posted on May 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Chroniques de la BnF 100 has some of the Bibliothèque Nationale’s famous reader’s cards Simone Weil, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Roland Barthes are online at the link. I previously shared Foucault’s card, with an attempt to decipher what it meant. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024

Posted on May 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 Out at the end of this month. « Nietzsche et Heidegger, ça a été le choc philosophique ! Mais je n’ai jamais rien écrit sur Heidegger et … Continue reading →

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Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, hors-série Les Essentiels 16, April-May 2024

Posted on May 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024 Il y a quarante ans, le 25 juin 1984, Michel Foucault disparaissait, emporté par le sida. Il avait 57 ans. Cette mort interrompait une existence prolifique et turbulente. Bâtir une … Continue reading →

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Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century – Toronto, 29-30 May 2024

Posted on May 15, 2024 by stuartelden
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International Dunhuang Programme new website

Posted on May 13, 2024 by stuartelden

“After three decades of pioneering research, the IDP launches a new and improved website” – British Library Asian and African studies blog The International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) has launched a new website, where you can view over 150,000 Central and … Continue reading →

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The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, original translation by James Strachey, revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms – Rowman & Littlefield, June 2024

Posted on May 11, 2024 by stuartelden

The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, original translation by James Strachey, revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms – Rowman & Littlefield, June 2024 The physical set doesn’t come cheap – $1,950.00 or £1,500.00! … Continue reading →

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