Category Archives: People

Walter Benjamin’s translators on translating Walter Benjamin

Posted on March 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Esther Leslie, Sam Dolbear, Sebastian Truskolaski on Translating Walter Benjamin In 1923 Walter Benjamin published The Task of the Translator, a seminal essay in which he considers what is obscured and what is elucidated through the process of literary translation. The … Continue reading →

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Roland Barthes, Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque – Classiques Garnier, eds. Christophe Corbier and Coste Claude, February 2023

Posted on March 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Roland Barthes, Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque – Classiques Garnier, edited by Christophe Corbier and Coste Claude, February 2023 En 1941, Roland Barthes soutient son diplôme d’études supérieures à la Sorbonne sous la direction de Paul Mazon. Le … Continue reading →

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Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years – Penn Press, December 2023

Posted on March 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years – Penn Press, December 2023 Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Even Foucault’s biographers have neglected this … Continue reading →

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Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Correspondance (1897-1927), eds. Rafael Faraco Benthien, Christophe Labaune and Christine Lorre – Classiques Garnier, 2021

Posted on March 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Correspondance (1897-1927), eds. Rafael Faraco Benthien, Christophe Labaune and Christine Lorre – Classiques Garnier, 2021 This volume significantly increases the corpus of the writings of Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert, by making public letters exchanged during thirty … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Eliade, Blanchot, Rousso

Posted on March 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Apart from the most-recent Lacan seminar to appear in the Points series, all bought second-hand. All connected to the Indo-European thought project in some way.

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Martha Nussbaum and Politics; Hannah Arendt and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023

Posted on March 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Brandon Robshaw, Martha Nussbaum and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023 Providing an overview of the political and ethical philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, this book presents the ideas of this significant philosopher and shows how her thought, while rooted … Continue reading →

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Claire Rydell Arcenas, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life – University of Chicago Press, 2022

Posted on March 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Claire Rydell Arcenas, America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life – University of Chicago Press, 2022 The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, edited by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, May 2023

Posted on February 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, edited by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, May 2023 This is a previously unpublished manuscript, probably from 1966, written after The Order of Things and before or alongside early work on what became … Continue reading →

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Books received – Leroi-Gourhan, Blanchot, Vogl, Ungar, Heidegger, Bobic and Haghighi

Posted on February 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books connected in part to the ongoing research on Indo-European though in France, the latest volume of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe and copies of Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short History of the Present and Nikolina Bobic and … Continue reading →

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Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, April 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, trans. Michael Chase, April 2023 The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot’s final work, now available in English.With a foreword by Arnold I. … Continue reading →

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