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Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. Séminaire (1991-1992) – Seuil, February 2024

Posted on February 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. Séminaire (1991-1992) – Seuil, February 2024 «Le secret, dit-on, c’est ce qui ne se dit pas » : c’est sur cette phrase que s’ouvre le séminaire Répondre – du secret, le tout premier de la série … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Lectures on Modern French Thought – Verso, October 2024

Posted on February 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson, The Years of Theory: Lectures on Modern French Thought – Verso, October 2024 No other information at the moment, but it is 544 pages long…

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Books received – Kojève, Mac Cumhaill & Wiseman, Bakewell, Foucault & Simon, Bloch, Brunet & Mahrer, Adluri & Bagchee

Posted on January 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books, nearly all second-hand, and mostly connected to my Mapping Indo-European Thought project. Also includes the Turkish translation of the dialogue between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon, which I edited, and to which I contributed a new … Continue reading →

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CFP: Pocockian Moments: A Symposium on the Centenary of J.G.A. Pocock – online, 20-21 May 2024

Posted on January 24, 2024 by stuartelden

CFP: Pocockian Moments: A Symposium on the Centenary of J.G.A. Pocock – online, 20-21 May 2024 The voluminous work of the late J. G. A. Pocock (1924-2023) challenged, redefined, and fashioned multiple fields of study, offering successive moments of transformation in … Continue reading →

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Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023

Posted on January 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity – special issue of Arethusa 2023 (requires subscription) From the Editor: Foucault and Arethusa Roger D. Woodard Introduction Simon Goldhill A Self-Interested Reader? Foucault and Imperial Greek Technical Texts Claire Hall Elephants, Christians, and Pagans in … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, Kant, trans. Hager Weslati – Verso, May 2024

Posted on January 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Alexandre Kojève, Kant, trans. Hager Weslati – Verso, May 2024 The French publication was with Gallimard in 1973. Kant forms the centerpiece of Alexandre Kojeve’s intriguing discovery of objective reality and its repressed history in Western philosophy During the early … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self – trans. Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Posted on January 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024 Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes of the seminar, November 2023 and April 2024

Posted on January 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes, University of Chicago Press Volume I, translated by E. S. Burt, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, November 2023 Volume II, translated by Peggy Kamuf, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, April … Continue reading →

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Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian – Haymarket, March 2024, foreword by Naomi Klein

Posted on January 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian – Haymarket, March 2024 Available in print and e-book – and good to see the e-book priced much lower than the physical book. A revelatory and wide-ranging series of … Continue reading →

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“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” – English text of the Turkish preface

Posted on January 2, 2024 by stuartelden

“Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon” was published in Theory, Culture & Society in 2017. The transcribed discussion was edited and introduced by me and there is an afterword by Jonathan Simon. This article … Continue reading →

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