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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Posted on July 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms underlying … Continue reading →

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Steve Stakland (ed.), The Phenomenology of Play: Encountering Eugen Fink – Bloomsbury, July 2024

Posted on July 21, 2024 by stuartelden

Steve Stakland (ed.), The Phenomenology of Play: Encountering Eugen Fink – Bloomsbury, July 2024 Eugen Fink’s deep engagement with the phenomenon of play saw him transcend his two towering mentors, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, to become a crucial figure … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rose, Sartre, Koyré, Benveniste, Greimas, Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2024 by stuartelden

The reedition of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work; Sartre’s Literary and Philosophical Essays; the Mélanges collections for Alexandre Koyré and Emile Benveniste; Algirdas Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology; and Foucault’s Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by … Continue reading →

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Joseph Acquisto, Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset – Bloomsbury, July 2024

Posted on July 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Joseph Acquisto, Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset – Bloomsbury, July 2024 Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social world.Joseph Acquisto analyzes the writings of three thinkers during … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose, Love’s Work – Penguin reissue and discussion

Posted on July 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Gillian Rose’s classic book, Love’s Work was reissued by Penguin earlier this year. There was a discussion of the book and her work generally at the London Review Bookshop with James Butler, Rebekah Howes and Rowan Williams – available here. … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present – Verso, May 2024

Posted on July 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson, Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 – now published The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more … Continue reading →

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Maya Krishnan on the legacy of Gillian Rose

Posted on July 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Maya Krishnan, The Risk of the Universal: The Philosophy of Gillian Rose

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France – audio recordings being posted online

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Today is the fortieth anniversary of Foucault’s death. The Collège de France are putting the surviving audio recordings of his lectures online – Le Pouvoir psychiatrique is up now, with others to follow. I’ve previously listed audio and video recordings … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Koyré, Meillet, Gilmartin, Hubbard, Kitchin and Roberts, and Foucault

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Jean-Paul Sartre’s Modern Times, older second-hand books by Alexandre Koyré and Antoine Meillet, the new edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, and Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024. I am one of the new … Continue reading →

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