Category Archives: People

Hannah Richter, The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann – SUNY Press, October 2023

Posted on September 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Hannah Richter, The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann – SUNY Press, October 2023 Just an expensive hardback at the moment… The Politics of Orientation provides the first substantial exploration of a surprising theoretical kinship and its rich political implications, between … Continue reading →

Posted in Gilles Deleuze, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Marie-Eve Morin, Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology – Edinburgh University Press, July 2023 (paperback)

Posted on September 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Marie-Eve Morin, Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology – Edinburgh University Press, July 2022 (hardback and e-book); July 2023 (paperback)

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 13: work on Benveniste, Saussure and in UK archives, a seminar on the research, and a brief health update

Posted on August 31, 2023 by stuartelden

In an earlier post here I briefly mentioned the medical issues that put me in hospital for three weeks in July. The operation was a success and I am making a good, though slow, recovery. I have been at home for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Dumézil, Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Foucault books – updated page with links to reviews, resources and talks

Posted on August 29, 2023 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on this blog about my series of Foucault books, The page has book descriptions, links to reviews, the updates I wrote while researching and writing the books and other related materials. Some translations, scans, textual analysis … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault | 1 Comment

Books received – Calvino, Malpas & White, Balibar, Villamizar, González and Astudillo, Saussure, Cheng

Posted on August 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books bought or sent recently – Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field, Étienne Balibar’s Écrits pour Althusser, Carlos Salamanca Villamizar, Gabriela González and Francisco Astudillo (eds.), Estudios sobre la espacialización … Continue reading →

Posted in Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Etienne Balibar, Italo Calvino, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, My Publications, Neil Brenner, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Dany Nobus on Jacques Lacan – two part discussion with Daniel Tutt

Posted on August 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Dany Nobus on Jacques Lacan – two part discussion with Daniel Tutt. Has a lot of fascinating archival finds of photos, articles and letters.

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Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023

Posted on August 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant’s account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023 [the print book link has some more detail, including some endorsements] This looks a useful collection, though despite what the description says most of the texts are … Continue reading →

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Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023

Posted on August 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023 Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton TW12 2EJ registration free but required – Eventbrite page Provisional Schedule Session 1 10:00  Katrin Truestedt (ZfL Berlin), ‘Politics of Appearing: Pulcinella & Ophelia … Continue reading →

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Books received while in hospital – Saussure, Mauss, Whyte, Krupar, Girard, et. al.

Posted on July 26, 2023 by stuartelden

The books which arrived while I was in hospital – mostly ordered before I was admitted. I was pleased to be able to find a complete set of the Marcel Mauss, Œuvres, along with the Écrits politiques; a few books … Continue reading →

Posted in Ferdinand de Saussure, Marcel Mauss | 1 Comment