Category Archives: People

Beginning work on ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’

Posted on July 1, 2020 by stuartelden

While work on The Early Foucault is just about complete, though stuck until I can get back to Paris, I’m today beginning work on ‘The Archaeology of Foucault’, the fourth and final book in this sequence. It fills in the … Continue reading →

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Adam Kotsko, Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory – Edinburgh University Press, September 2020

Posted on June 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko, Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory – Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 Good to see this book nearly out – a major study by the key translator of Agamben into English. Adam has a great story about the project – Academic … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – University of Chicago Press, February 2021 (now published)

Posted on June 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt, University of Chicago Press, December 2020 [update: now listed as February 2021] Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude … Continue reading →

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Books received – University of Minnesota Press, Sartre, Dumézil, Koyré

Posted on June 29, 2020 by stuartelden

A mixed pile of books, mostly from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for some review work, along with some second-hand French books.

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What Intellectual History Teaches Us: A Conversation with Quentin Skinner (2019)

Posted on June 18, 2020 by stuartelden

What Intellectual History Teaches Us: A Conversation with Quentin Skinner – Jeremy Jennings at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society, Kings College London A couple of years old, but still interesting in relation to his career, recent … Continue reading →

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Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error reviewed at NDPR by Paul M. Livingstone

Posted on June 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error – reviewed at NDPR by Paul M. Livingstone.

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Jane Bennett, Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman – Duke University Press, 2020 (open access Introduction and discussion)

Posted on June 17, 2020 by stuartelden

Jane Bennett, Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman – Duke University Press, 2020 In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with … Continue reading →

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Books received – Benveniste, Dumézil, Merleau-Ponty, Piel (and a note on the political controversy around Dumézil)

Posted on June 17, 2020 by stuartelden

A pile of second-hand books, all for the Foucault work and related projects. In particular I’m writing a piece on Foucault and Dumézil, which is mainly about their understandings of sovereignty. In that piece, which I think will largely focus … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett, Sexuality and Solitude – London Review of Books, 1981 (open access)

Posted on June 17, 2020 by stuartelden

As part of their ‘Diverted Traffic’ series, the London Review of Books has made Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett, ‘Sexuality and Solitude‘ from 1981 open access. Reprints of this piece – Dits et écrits or Essential Works, for example, tend to omit Sennett’s … Continue reading →

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Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Radical – Historical Materialism series, Brill 2019; Haymarket November 2020

Posted on June 9, 2020 by stuartelden

Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche: The Aristocratic Radical – hardback Brill 2019; paperback Haymarket November 2020 Good to see news of the forthcoming paperback publication of this major study. Translated by Gregor Benton. With an Introduction by Harrison Fluss. Perhaps no philosopher … Continue reading →

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