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Indo-European Thought project update 5: Reading Saussure

Posted on August 25, 2022 by stuartelden

With the proofs and index of The Archaeology of Foucault complete, the next thing will hopefully be receiving an advance copy toward the end of the year. The new edition of Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna is now in production with HAU books, and should be out … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – the two cowboy hat photographs

Posted on August 25, 2022 by stuartelden

Back in 2015, when I was doing the research for Foucault’s Last Decade, I tried to identify and contact the people who had been part of Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley. The famous photograph appeared in Didier Eribon’s biography, with … Continue reading →

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Books received – Kuper, Ojakangas, Drews, Glendinning, Cassirer

Posted on August 12, 2022 by stuartelden

Books in recompense for review work, including the new translation of Ernst Cassirer’s The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, and Simon Glendinning’s Europe: A Philosophical History.

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Books received – Detienne, Benveniste, Olender, Dumézil, Rampling, Katz

Posted on August 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books for the Indo-European thought project, along with Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700, in recompense for review work, and Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine, which I … Continue reading →

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Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Foucault im Hörsaal: Über das mündliche Philosophieren – Verlag Turia + Kant, 2022

Posted on August 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Foucault im Hörsaal: Über das mündliche Philosophieren – Verlag Turia + Kant, 2022 Im Hörsaal zeigt sich das europäische Philosophieren jederzeit mündlich und beweglich. Viele pilgerten zwischen 1970 und 1984 nach Paris, wo Michel Foucault dreizehn umfangreiche … Continue reading →

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Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production, ed. Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser – Northwestern University Press, 2022

Posted on August 8, 2022 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production, ed. Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser – Northwestern University Press, 2022 Contributions by Pierre Macherey, Nathan Brown, David Marriott, Nick Nesbitt, Ellen Rooney and Joseph Serrano

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Science and other texts, trans. Adrian Del Caro, Stanford University Press, January 2023

Posted on August 3, 2022 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Joyful Science, Idylls from Messina, Unpublished Fragments…, trans. Adrian Del Caro, Stanford University Press, January 2023. Part of the Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche series, which is now only missing a few volumes. Written on the threshold … Continue reading →

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Books received – Olender, Neilson et. al., Davis & Dean, Lichnerowicz et. al., Walker, Adorno, Febvre & Bloch, Droit

Posted on July 25, 2022 by stuartelden

Maurice Olender, Race sans histoire; three books from Open Humanities Press – Contagion Design, Data Farms: Circuits, Labour, Territory and Logistical Worlds: Infrastructure, Software, Labour; Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, Hatred of Sex; one of the seminars organised by André … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s library card

Posted on July 14, 2022 by stuartelden

I found this yesterday, while looking for something else. It’s Foucault’s library card for the Bibliothèque nationale de France, found on their images site. I can’t read and/or decipher it all, but here’s what I can work out. [It’s worth … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought project update 4: Editing and Introducing Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna, and working with Foucault’s Lecture Courses 

Posted on July 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna has taken far longer than I expected, but I think the text of the book is now complete. The major challenge, as I’ve indicated before, was the process of checking, completing and sometimes correcting Dumézil’s references. I’ve been mainly … Continue reading →

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