Category Archives: People

Judith Butler, What World is this? A Pandemic Psychology – Columbia University Press, November 2022

Posted on June 9, 2022 by stuartelden

Judith Butler, What World is this? A Pandemic Psychology – Columbia University Press, November 2022 The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally … Continue reading →

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Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg by Islam Dayeh (open access)

Posted on June 9, 2022 by stuartelden

Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg by Islam Dayeh  In this Philological Conversation, Carlo Ginzburg reflects on the place of philology in his work and explores the connections between philology, microhistory, and casuistry. We talk about the people who … Continue reading →

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Patrick Gamsby, Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life – Lexington Books, September 2022

Posted on June 8, 2022 by stuartelden

Patrick Gamsby, Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life – Lexington Books, September 2022 Just an expensive hardback listed at the moment, unfortunately. Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life culls together the scattered fragments of Henri Lefebvre’s (1901–1991) unrealized sociology of boredom. In … Continue reading →

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The Frankfurt School and Shakespeare, Garrick’s Temple, Hampton, 25 June 2022 [now taking place online]

Posted on June 2, 2022 by stuartelden

The Frankfurt School and Shakespeare, Garrick’s Temple, Hampton, 25 June 2022 Update: due to rail strikes this is now taking place online. Registration free, but required. 09.30: Coffee (Temple Pavilion) 10.00: Chair: Jennifer Rust (Saint Louis University)  Paul Kottman (New School … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022, cover and preorder details

Posted on May 31, 2022 by stuartelden

The final book in my series of studies of Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, is due for publication with Polity in December 2022. On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eliade, Benveniste, Charachidzé, Balibar, Godelier

Posted on May 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books for the Indo-European thought project, along with Étienne Balibar, Cosmopolitique, the third volume in his Écrits series, and Maurice Godelier’s study of Lévi-Strauss (available in English from Verso, translated by Nora Scott), both bought in Paris.

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Indo-European Thought project update 3: Paris – Foucault, Canguilhem, Dumézil

Posted on May 9, 2022 by stuartelden

I had a good two-week visit to Paris, where I worked at both the Mitterand and Richelieu sites of the Bibliothèque nationale, the Collège de France and the École normale supérieure. It was something of a transitional trip, doing a … Continue reading →

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Margath Walker, Spatializing Marcuse: Critical Theory for Contemporary Times – Bristol University Press, July 2022

Posted on May 9, 2022 by stuartelden

Margath Walker, Spatializing Marcuse: Critical Theory for Contemporary Times – Bristol University Press, July 2022 This  fresh  appraisal of philosopher Herbert Marcuse’s work foregrounds the geographical aspects of one of the leading social and political theorists of the 20th  century.     Margath A. … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Madness, Language, Literature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel, translated by Robert Bononno, University of Chicago Press, February 2023

Posted on May 2, 2022 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Madness, Language, Literature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Judith Revel, translated by Robert Bononno, University of Chicago Press, February 2023 Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, La Question anthropologique. Cours, 1954-1955 (2022)

Posted on May 2, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, La Question anthropologique. Cours, 1954-1955, EHSS, Gallimard Seuil, 10 juin 2022 Qu’est-ce que l’homme ? Michel Foucault, au mitan des années 1950, consacre une partie de son enseignement, dispensé à l’université de Lille…

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