Category Archives: People

Marcel Mauss, Sociologie générale – ed. Francesco Callegaro and Johan Giry, PUF, November 2025

Posted on November 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Marcel Mauss, Sociologie générale – ed. Francesco Callegaro and Johan Giry, PUF, November 2025 En 1930, lors de sa candidature au Collège de France, Marcel Mauss a souligné combien son oeuvre ne pouvait être dissociée du projet d’Émile Durkheim et … Continue reading →

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Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024, paperback March 2026

Posted on November 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024, paperback March 2026

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Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom

Posted on November 23, 2025 by stuartelden

R. Gordon Wasson was Vice President at the American investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., a major supporter of Slavic Studies in the United States during the Cold War, and fascinated by hallucinogenic mushrooms.  His wife, Valentina Pavlovna Wasson was … Continue reading →

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Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025

Posted on November 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025 When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 – trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Verso, November 2025

Posted on November 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 – trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Verso, November 2025 An elegant new translation of Benjamin’s moving evocation of the experiences of his urban childhood Composed in exile in the 1930s and pub­lished as a whole only after … Continue reading →

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Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025

Posted on November 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025 J’ai mis des années avant d’oser écrire sur Hélène. Elle n’était pas que l’étranglée de la rue d’Ulm. Elle était un mystère, une femme aux multiples identités, une personnalité opaque, hermétique … Continue reading →

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Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on November 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Foucault’s Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality

Posted on November 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Some years ago, Philippe Chevallier alerted me to the importance of the 1977 German translation of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as Sexualität und Wahrheit: Der Wille zum Wissen. This text included a brief preface by Foucault … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 38 published, including a theme section on Foucault and Nietzsche, and a ‘Buffalo dossier’ (all open access)

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 38 is now published There are essays by Johanna Oksala and Philipp Kender, and a special section on Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche, with pieces by Orazio Irrera, Federico Testa, Emmanuel Salanskis, Daniele Lorenzini and Frédéric Porcher. This issue … Continue reading →

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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History – University of Chicago Press, April 2026

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History – University of Chicago Press, April 2026 A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities—and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing … Continue reading →

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