Category Archives: People

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021

Posted on January 20, 2021 by stuartelden

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021, translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff The original French edition of these texts was published by Seuil in 2019 as Anthropologie structurale zéro. This volume of Lévi-Strauss’s writings from 1941 … Continue reading →

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Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020

Posted on January 20, 2021 by stuartelden

Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020 An innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx. In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded … Continue reading →

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Daniele Lorenzini on Foucault and Descartes (open access and video abstract) – part of Theory, Culture & Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’

Posted on January 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Daniele Lorenzini’s article “Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’ Meditations” is now available open access. The article is part of a Theory, Culture & Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ which I’m co-editing with … Continue reading →

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Books received – Paine, Du Bois, Lévi-Strauss, Hyppolite, Martinet, de Saussure, Ewald, Della Dora

Posted on January 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Paine and Du Bois are for teaching, the others relate to the ongoing Foucault work, along with a long-awaited copy of Veronica Della Dora’s excellent book The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor, which I read in … Continue reading →

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Stephen Connelly, Leibniz: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Power – Edinburgh University Press, March 2021

Posted on January 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Stephen Connelly, Leibniz: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Power – Edinburgh University Press, March 2021 A critical reading of Leibniz’s legal theory, linking law, space and power  Contributes to an archaeology of power Investigates the deep link between law, … Continue reading →

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Abolition Democracy – 7/13 Beyond the Punitive Society (video)

Posted on January 8, 2021 by stuartelden

Center for Contemporary Critical Thought – Columbia University A Joint Session with The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick: Miguel Beistegui, Henrique Carvalho, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini, Goldie Osuri, Irene Dal Poz, Federico Testa, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Hyppolite, Deleuze, Gussak, Ochoa Espejo

Posted on January 6, 2021 by stuartelden

Some books by Lévi-Strauss, Hyppolite and Deleuze, along with Paulina Ochoa Espejo, On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place and David Gussak, Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned, sent by the publisher.

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‘From Dynastics to Genealogy’, my contribution to Abolition Democracy 13/13, Beyond the Punitive Society

Posted on January 4, 2021 by stuartelden

On 7 January 2021 I’ll be part of a panel discussion for the Abolition Democracy 13/13 series, hosted by Bernard E. Harcourt at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, and co-organised with Daniele Lorenzini of The Centre for Research … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by stuartelden

As with previous years, these are a list of academic books published this year which I read and appreciated. This means that good books which I haven’t yet read don’t feature, and I will of course miss many. Several of … Continue reading →

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Discussion of The Early Foucault (@politybooks, 2021) on the Hermitix podcast

Posted on December 31, 2020 by stuartelden

On the Hermitix podcast (stream or download) I discuss The Early Foucault, forthcoming with Polity in 2021. Also on Youtube. Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Theory and Geography at University of Warwick. He is the author of multiple books … Continue reading →

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