Category Archives: People

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity – University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024

Posted on March 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity – University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024 Now published Philosopher Michel Foucault’s cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 18: further work on Benveniste and more archives in Paris

Posted on March 18, 2024 by stuartelden

In the last update on this project, I talked about the Paris archival work I’d done in early February. There were a few loose ends of references when I got back from Paris, most of which I was able to resolve … Continue reading →

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Books received – Binswanger & Warburg, Auffret, Foucault, Dumézil, Benveniste et. al, and Derrida

Posted on March 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently-bought books, mostly in Paris, including Foucault’s very early La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie and the most recently published seminar from Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. … Continue reading →

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Enrique Dussel, The Theological Metaphors of Marx – trans. Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, foreword Eduardo Mendieta, Duke University Press, April 2024

Posted on March 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Enrique Dussel, The Theological Metaphors of Marx – trans. Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, foreword Eduardo Mendieta, Duke University Press, April 2024 the introduction is open access here In The Theological Metaphors of Marx, Enrique Dussel provides a groundbreaking combination of Marxology, theology, and … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Posted on March 5, 2024 by stuartelden

A revised and expanded version of this post is here as part of the Sunday histories series. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in the years before the Second World War, … Continue reading →

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Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Posted on March 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Goblin – on the notebooks and his translations of the Brothers Grimm fairytales

Posted on February 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Goblin It’s easy to miss the Fondazione Gramsci, tucked away off the street in a little building along via Sebino, at number 43A, in Rome’s Trieste neighborhood. Its glass door entrance lies at the end of a … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 17: Contextualising Benveniste

Posted on February 12, 2024 by stuartelden

In my chapter on Émile Benveniste from roughly 1934 to 1949, I’ve been finding all sorts of interesting things to explore. Looking for some of Benveniste’s early publications in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris led me to do … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present – Verso, May 2024 and Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory, ed. Octavian Esanu – Repeater, 2024

Posted on February 10, 2024 by stuartelden

As if the book The Years of Theory I posted about earlier this week wasn’t enough, two more works by Fredric Jameson this year… Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 [updated to … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024

Posted on February 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024 Le 11 juin 1949, Foucault soutient en Sorbonne son mémoire de diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie … Continue reading →

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