Category Archives: People

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity – University of Chicago Press, July 2020

Posted on July 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity – University of Chicago Press, July 2020. Speaking of Derrida, his text Geschlecht III, first published in French in 2018, edited by Geoffrey Bennington, Katie Chenoweth, and Rodrigo Therezo has now been translated by Katie … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Le Calcul des Langues – Seuil, June 2020 – previously unpublished manuscript, edited by Geoff Bennington and Katie Chenoweth

Posted on July 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Le Calcul des Langues – Seuil, June 2020 News of a previously unpublished manuscript by Derrida, edited by Geoff Bennington and Katie Chenoweth. Texte énigmatique et entièrement inédit, Le Calcul des langues marque la première tentative de Jacques … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 1: Organisation, textual comparisons and a working timeline

Posted on July 13, 2020 by stuartelden

After an initial burst of enthusiasm, I’m already beginning to realise the scale of some of the tasks ahead of me with this book. The final chapter of The Early Foucault discusses the way History of Madness was initially received, … Continue reading →

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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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