Category Archives: People

Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 1 – updating the list of English translations of Oeuvres complètes on this site

Posted on May 28, 2023 by stuartelden

With the publication of Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 1: 1944-1948 (trans. Chris Turner, eds. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys), English readers now have access to most of the essays in volume 11 of Bataille’s Œuvres complètes. I’ve updated the list … Continue reading →

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Books received – Chestov, Nietzsche, Ginzburg, Rose, Spotts, Bataille

Posted on May 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books – Léon Chestov’s L’idée de bien chez Tolstoï et Nietzsche (Bataille was one of the translators); the two most recent volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Carlo Ginzburg’s The Judge and the Historian; Gillian Rose, Judaism … Continue reading →

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Jonathan I. Israel, Spinoza, Life and Legacy – Oxford University Press, August 2023

Posted on May 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Jonathan I. Israel, Spinoza, Life and Legacy – Oxford University Press, August 2023 A massive, 1,344 page study of Spinoza… A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man’s life, relationships, … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 12: working in some UK archives; Benveniste’s EPHE teaching; some talks on the research

Posted on May 26, 2023 by stuartelden

After the last update a friend contacted me with some valuable information – about an archive which was already on my list of ones to try to visit when in the United States next year, but should certainly now be … Continue reading →

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Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr eds, To Write the Africa World and The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings – Polity 2023

Posted on May 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Achille Mbembe & Felwine Sarr eds, To Write the Africa World – Polity 2023, trans. Drew Burk In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on … Continue reading →

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Maurice Blanchot, Notes sur Heidegger, ed. Étienne Pinat – Éditions Kime, 2023

Posted on May 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Maurice Blanchot, Notes sur Heidegger, ed. Étienne Pinat – Éditions Kime, 2023 Doesn’t seem to gave a publisher page yet, but listed here. Dans une lettre de 1987, Maurice Blanchot revient dans un post-scriptum essentiel sur son rapport à l’œuvre … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ – all papers open access until mid June 2023

Posted on May 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘ all papers open access until mid June 2023 co-edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini The issue includes papers by most of the editors of the … Continue reading →

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How Nietzsche came in from the Cold – Philipp Felsch’s book and a two-part interview

Posted on May 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Philipp Felsch’s book Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam [How Nietzsche came in from the cold] was mentioned at the workshop on translation and the archive yesterday. It’s a study of the two Italian editors and translators of Nietzsche, Colli and Montinari. … Continue reading →

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György Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness – 100 years on, an online collection of German and Russian reviews of and essays about the book

Posted on May 20, 2023 by stuartelden

From the Historical Materialism mailing list György Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, the book that has won him enthusiastic supporters and bitter enemies, was published 100 years ago. To mark the occasion, a collection of German and Russian reviews of and … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss: the Fondation Loubat lectures 

Posted on May 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Update August 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. In the 1949-50 academic year, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave the Fondation Loubat lectures at the Collège de France. Although he was trying … Continue reading →

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