Category Archives: People

Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr eds, To Write the Africa World and The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings – Polity 2023

Posted on May 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Achille Mbembe & Felwine Sarr eds, To Write the Africa World – Polity 2023, trans. Drew Burk In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on … Continue reading →

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Maurice Blanchot, Notes sur Heidegger, ed. Étienne Pinat – Éditions Kime, 2023

Posted on May 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Maurice Blanchot, Notes sur Heidegger, ed. Étienne Pinat – Éditions Kime, 2023 Doesn’t seem to gave a publisher page yet, but listed here. Dans une lettre de 1987, Maurice Blanchot revient dans un post-scriptum essentiel sur son rapport à l’œuvre … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ – all papers open access until mid June 2023

Posted on May 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘ all papers open access until mid June 2023 co-edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini The issue includes papers by most of the editors of the … Continue reading →

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How Nietzsche came in from the Cold – Philipp Felsch’s book and a two-part interview

Posted on May 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Philipp Felsch’s book Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam [How Nietzsche came in from the cold] was mentioned at the workshop on translation and the archive yesterday. It’s a study of the two Italian editors and translators of Nietzsche, Colli and Montinari. … Continue reading →

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György Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness – 100 years on, an online collection of German and Russian reviews of and essays about the book

Posted on May 20, 2023 by stuartelden

From the Historical Materialism mailing list György Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, the book that has won him enthusiastic supporters and bitter enemies, was published 100 years ago. To mark the occasion, a collection of German and Russian reviews of and … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss: the Fondation Loubat lectures 

Posted on May 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Update August 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. In the 1949-50 academic year, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave the Fondation Loubat lectures at the Collège de France. Although he was trying … Continue reading →

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Books received – Koyré, Foucault, Eliade & Pettazzoni, Axelos, Evans

Posted on May 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Alexandre Koyré’s Introduction à la lecture de Platon; the Eliade-Pettazzoni correspondence and Richard Evans’s biography of Eric Hobsbawm, all bought second-hand, along with Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World and Michel Foucault, Le discours philosophique, kindly sent by the … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful – a listing of which French texts it includes

Posted on May 13, 2023 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on this site which lists English translations of texts in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections. The update was to provide references to the recently-published The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson … Continue reading →

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James McElvenny (ed.), The Limits of Structuralism: Forgotten Texts in the History of Modern Linguistics – Oxford University Press, March 2023

Posted on May 12, 2023 by stuartelden

James McElvenny (ed.), The Limits of Structuralism: Forgotten Texts in the History of Modern Linguistics – Oxford University Press, March 2023 An expensive but interesting looking collection – also available on Oxford Scholarship Online. Based around seven primary texts spanning … Continue reading →

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David Harvey on capital, theory, and becoming a Marxist – video interview with Sebastian Budgen

Posted on May 11, 2023 by stuartelden

For fifty years David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars. In addition, his work on the history and geography of capitalist development has transformed our understanding of neoliberalism and the spread … Continue reading →

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