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Excerpt from The Archaeology of Foucault at The Montreal Review (open access)

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

A short excerpt from the coda of The Archaeology of Foucault is available open access at The Montréal Review. It discusses Foucault’s tributes to Jean Hyppolite and the visits to SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and 1972. Thanks to publicity staff … Continue reading →

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Books received – Surya, Foucault, Calvino, Blanchot, Artières, Eliade, Loyer, Bataille, Cunliffe

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

Bought in Paris or second-hand, connecting to either the new Indo-European thought project or the earlier Foucault one. I’ll just mention a couple – La bibliothèque de Georges Bataille is the illustrated catalogue to the recent sale of a part of … Continue reading →

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Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, Senate House, London, 19 May 2023 – organised by Henry Somers-Hall with Julia Ng, Alan Schrift, Daniel Smith, Charles Stivale and Stuart Elden

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

On 19 May 2023 I’ll speaking at a workshop on Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition, organised by Henry Somers-Hall for Royal Holloway, University of London. It will be held in central London at Senate House. Registration is … Continue reading →

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Sur les traces de Georges Canguilhem – CAPHÉS website with archive information, bibliographies, interviews, etc.

Posted on March 30, 2023 by stuartelden

The CAPHÉS archive in Paris, which houses Georges Canguilhem’s archive and his library, among other valuable resources, has produced an invaluable website about his work. Sur les traces de Georges Canguilhem Le philosophe Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) est un ancien élève … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg, in discussion with Raphaëlle Burns, Emmanuelle Saada, and Pierre Force, online April 3, 2023 (12-1pm New York; 6-7pm Paris)

Posted on March 28, 2023 by stuartelden

MONDAY, APRIL 3, 12:00-1:00 PM (New York) / 18:00-19:00 (Paris) Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal  Carlo Ginzburg, in discussion with Raphaëlle Burns, Emmanuelle Saada, and Pierre Force On zoom RSVP HERE Machiavelli’s repeated use of the adverb nondimanco (“nevertheless”) indicated he thought that there was an … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 10: Dumézil’s early work and archives; the Collège de Sociologie and Blanchot; Eliade in Paris; Lévi-Strauss

Posted on March 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project, the main task has been beginning to work through Dumézil’s books and articles in broadly chronological order, filling in some gaps in my earlier reading, and trying to write a bit about each. So far, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Foucault before the Collège de France – theme issue of Theory, Culture & Society, now published

Posted on March 26, 2023 by stuartelden

‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ – theme issue of Theory, Culture & Society, coming soon, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini [Update: the whole issue is now online here] Some of the papers are available online … Continue reading →

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Julian Roche, Marxism and Real Estate: Taking Lefebvre Seriously – Routledge, September 2023

Posted on March 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Julian Roche, Marxism and Real Estate: Taking Lefebvre Seriously – Routledge, September 2023 Intriguing, but a truly ridiculous price of £140! This book straddles two worlds and attempts to bring them together: that of Lefebvre’s Marxism on the one hand, and … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin’s translators on translating Walter Benjamin

Posted on March 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Esther Leslie, Sam Dolbear, Sebastian Truskolaski on Translating Walter Benjamin In 1923 Walter Benjamin published The Task of the Translator, a seminal essay in which he considers what is obscured and what is elucidated through the process of literary translation. The … Continue reading →

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Roland Barthes, Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque – Classiques Garnier, eds. Christophe Corbier and Coste Claude, February 2023

Posted on March 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Roland Barthes, Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque – Classiques Garnier, edited by Christophe Corbier and Coste Claude, February 2023 En 1941, Roland Barthes soutient son diplôme d’études supérieures à la Sorbonne sous la direction de Paul Mazon. Le … Continue reading →

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