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Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, trans. Louise Burchill, University of Minnesota Press, December 2023

Posted on October 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, Translated by Louise Burchill, Introduction by Paul A. Harris, University of Minnesota Press, 2023 Michel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel … Continue reading →

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On the trail of Aurel Stein – working in archives for the Indo-European thought project

Posted on October 27, 2023 by stuartelden

The research for the Indo-European thought project has been difficult to confine to a solely French focus. I knew I wanted to begin what will probably be the first chapter with the story of the Mission Paul Pelliot, an expedition to Chinese … Continue reading →

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Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024

Posted on October 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024 In a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways … Continue reading →

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Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World – Oxford University Press, January 2023

Posted on October 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain – Oxford University Press, January 2023 Part of the Early Modern Literary Geographies series – just an expensive hardback at present Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading →

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Books received – Parkin, Mac Cumhaill & Wiseman, Margulies, Thompson, Demoule, Hubbard, Kitchin & Valentine

Posted on October 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books, along with Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade, sent by University of Minnesota Press. Key Thinkers on Space and Place is the first edition; I already had the … Continue reading →

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Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023

Posted on October 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023 G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesthetics and metaphysics. His most … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 17, 2023 by stuartelden

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

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Books received – Renou, Althusser, Safransky, Zumwalt, Woodard

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the Indo-European project, along with Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, sent by Duke University Press. The Rosemary LévyZumwalt book is the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023 This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their … Continue reading →

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Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024

Posted on October 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024 (US; UK) The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, … Continue reading →

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