Category Archives: People

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but now there is a New Books discussion with Nathan Smith

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Two Foucault books reissued by Routledge – History of Madness and Politics, Philosophy, Culture, October 2026

Posted on August 4, 2026 by stuartelden

History of Madness When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l’âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time … Continue reading →

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Colm McAuliffe, Film, In Theory: The BFI Education Department and Film Culture – Bloomsbury, February 2026

Posted on August 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Colm McAuliffe, Film, In Theory: The BFI Education Department and Film Culture – Bloomsbury, February 2026 Film, In Theory offers the first sustained history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain. It balances unpublished archival materials from the BFI … Continue reading →

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Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian – Harvard University Press, August 2026

Posted on August 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian – Harvard University Press, August 2026 Interview about writing the book here. [Update 21 August 2026: New Books discussion with Ryan Tripp – thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading →

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The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’

Posted on August 2, 2026 by stuartelden

A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “If I ever go missing, I want Stuart leading the … Continue reading →

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Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography – Reaktion, July 2025

Posted on August 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography – Reaktion, July 2025 A complete portrait of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, who plumbed both science and imagination. This is the first English biography of Gaston Bachelard, a philosopher who bridged the worlds … Continue reading →

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Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026

Posted on July 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026 Now published – a major, and very expensive, reference work, though the e-book is less. I say a bit about my chapter, on Foucault and structuralism, here.

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Stanford University Press, August 2026

Posted on July 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Stanford University Press, August 2026 Thus Spoke Zarathustra stands alone among Nietzsche’s published works as a poetic and narrative rendering of his most sophisticated ideas through the medium of … Continue reading →

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Francis Dupuis-Déri – Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull, Between the Lines, June 2025

Posted on July 28, 2026 by stuartelden

Francis Dupuis-Déri – Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull, Between the Lines, June 2025 On November 16, 1980, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser strangled his wife in their Parisian apartment, in a period when she was … Continue reading →

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Books received (2) – Bloch, Wolff, Butler, Sloterdijk, Erdur, Klein-Gousseff, Ginzburg

Posted on July 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Two recent editions of texts by Marc Bloch, Étienne Wolff’s Science des monstres, two recent books by Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? and What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology, Peter Sloterdijk’s The Continent without Qualities: Bookmarks in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Étienne Wolff, Carlo Ginzburg, Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Judith Butler, Marc Bloch, Michel Foucault, teaching | 3 Comments