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Books received – Calvino, Malpas & White, Balibar, Villamizar, González and Astudillo, Saussure, Cheng

Posted on August 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books bought or sent recently – Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field, Étienne Balibar’s Écrits pour Althusser, Carlos Salamanca Villamizar, Gabriela González and Francisco Astudillo (eds.), Estudios sobre la espacialización … Continue reading →

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Dany Nobus on Jacques Lacan – two part discussion with Daniel Tutt

Posted on August 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Dany Nobus on Jacques Lacan – two part discussion with Daniel Tutt. Has a lot of fascinating archival finds of photos, articles and letters.

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Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023

Posted on August 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant’s account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023

Posted on August 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023 [the print book link has some more detail, including some endorsements] This looks a useful collection, though despite what the description says most of the texts are … Continue reading →

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Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023

Posted on August 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023 Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton TW12 2EJ registration free but required – Eventbrite page Provisional Schedule Session 1 10:00  Katrin Truestedt (ZfL Berlin), ‘Politics of Appearing: Pulcinella & Ophelia … Continue reading →

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Books received while in hospital – Saussure, Mauss, Whyte, Krupar, Girard, et. al.

Posted on July 26, 2023 by stuartelden

The books which arrived while I was in hospital – mostly ordered before I was admitted. I was pleased to be able to find a complete set of the Marcel Mauss, Œuvres, along with the Écrits politiques; a few books … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1939 book on Nietzsche and the ‘Liste Otto’ – which books of his were banned?

Posted on July 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Update June 2025: a revised and expanded version of this post is here. About twenty years ago, in an essay on Henri Lefebvre, I said that his book on Nietzsche (1939) was on the prohibited ‘Liste Otto’. These were books … Continue reading →

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Edgar Landgraf, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism – University of Minnesota Press, September 2023

Posted on June 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Edgar Landgraf, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism – University of Minnesota Press, September 2023 While many posthumanists claim Nietzsche as one of their own, rarely do they engage his philosophy in any real depth. Nietzsche’s Posthumanism addresses this need by exploring the continuities and disagreements … Continue reading →

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Miri Davidson, “Jean Baudrillard Grasped the Symbolic Life of Capital but Lost Track of the Material World”, Jacobin, open access

Posted on June 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Miri Davidson, “Jean Baudrillard Grasped the Symbolic Life of Capital but Lost Track of the Material World“, Jacobin, open access French thinker Jean Baudrillard developed a pioneering analysis of symbolism and consumption in modern capitalism with some valuable insights. But … Continue reading →

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Hanne Jacobs (ed). The Husserlian Mind – Routledge, 2021, paperback May 2023

Posted on June 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Hanne Jacobs (ed). The Husserlian Mind – Routledge, 2021, paperback May 2023

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