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A detailed comparison of Michel Foucault’s Two Texts on Georges Canguilhem

Posted on June 24, 2024 by stuartelden

In 1978, Foucault contributed an introduction to the English translation of Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological. The French version is included in Dits et écrits as text 219. (No translator is indicated, which suggests the editors had access to the original … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations – beginning of a list of essays and translations

Posted on June 22, 2024 by stuartelden

I previously grumbled about how hard it was to navigate Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. I went looking for an essay in the French, only to find it was in one volume of the original edition and a different volume of the revised edition. I … Continue reading →

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Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things – Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024 

Posted on June 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things – Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024  I almost missed this, given the subtitle, but Gandal was one … Continue reading →

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Marco Filoni and Massimo Palma (eds.), Tyrants at Work: Philosophy and Politics in Alexandre Kojève – Editions ETS, 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by stuartelden

Marco Filoni and Massimo Palma (eds.), Tyrants at Work: Philosophy and Politics in Alexandre Kojève – Editions ETS, 2024 (print and open access) This volume wants to restore the depth and contradictions – both theoretical and biographical, political and speculative – of … Continue reading →

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Beverley Best, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital – Verso, May 2024

Posted on June 19, 2024 by stuartelden

Beverley Best, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital – Verso, May 2024 Why the neglected third volume of Capital holds the key to Marx’s theory of value The Automatic Fetish traces Marx’s analysis of capital, step by step, through … Continue reading →

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The chaos of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations

Posted on June 17, 2024 by stuartelden

I just looked for an essay in one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Situations. What a chaotic mess the different editions and translations are. The English text with the title Situations (1965) is a partial translation of volume IV. Qu’est-ce que la … Continue reading →

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Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, February 2025

Posted on June 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, February 2025 Very good to see this book scheduled. (update May 2025: it is now scheduled for August 2025. I’ve added the cover.) ‘Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account … Continue reading →

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Journée d’étude: Relire Canguilhem à partir des inédits – ENS-PSL, Paris 18 juin 2024

Posted on June 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Journée d’étude: Relire Canguilhem à partir des inédits – ENS-PSL, Paris 18 juin 2024

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Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Idea – Cambridge University Press, November 2024

Posted on June 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Idea – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 20: writing about Dumézil and Benveniste’s archives

Posted on May 31, 2024 by stuartelden

In the previous update on the research for this project, I said I had begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. That has also been the main focus on this last month too, trying … Continue reading →

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