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Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and English translations – list updated and a couple of questions

Posted on April 16, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve done some updating to the list of works in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections and the English translations. This includes some links to books, a bit of detail on texts in The College of Sociology not in the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bataille, Eliade, Ballvé, de Waelhens

Posted on April 15, 2020 by stuartelden

Mainly books by Bataille, but also a volume of Mircea Eliade’s journals, the first book in French on Heidegger, originally published in 1942, and Teo Ballvé’s The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia. Teo kindly sent a copy of his … Continue reading →

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Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions – Bloomsbury, December 2020

Posted on April 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Marta Faustino, Gianfranco Ferraro (eds.), The Late Foucault: Ethical and Political Questions – Bloomsbury, December 2020 Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western … Continue reading →

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Etienne Balibar, Spinoza, the Transindividual, translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 (and review by Dan Taylor)

Posted on April 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Etienne Balibar, Spinoza, the Transindividual, translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 One of the most important books on Spinoza to appear in the last 30 years, written by one of the foremost living French philosophers … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille – Oeuvres complètes and other French collections, with list of English translations

Posted on April 14, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve made a start with the project of listing the pieces in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections, along with English translations of these pieces. The page is available here. It’s not complete – I’ve done 8 of the 12 … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eribon & Lévi-Strauss, Heidegger, Dumézil, Bataille

Posted on April 6, 2020 by stuartelden

A few things, some ordered before the lockdown began and some since, that will keep me busy for a while. While I have the Heidegger book in German and English, this was an early French translation, and important in terms … Continue reading →

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Two bibliographical questions about Georges Bataille

Posted on April 3, 2020 by stuartelden

Two bibliographical questions about Georges Bataille: – is there a comprehensive list anywhere of the writings by/attributed to Bataille which are not included in the Oeuvres complètes? I know of Une liberté souveraine, for example, and letters, and texts from some … Continue reading →

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Achille Mbembe, Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization – Columbia UP, August 2020

Posted on April 1, 2020 by stuartelden

Good to see that an English translation of Achille Mbembe, Sortir de la grande nuit is forthcoming in August 2020 from Columbia University Press – Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization   Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, ‘Mystified Consciousness’ in Monthly Review – on Lefebvre’s relevance today

Posted on March 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield,‘Mystified Consciousness’ in Monthly Review – on Lefebvre’s relevance to today. Andy’s book Marx Dead and Alive is forthcoming from Monthly Review Press.

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Derek Gregory, Under Afghan Skies – Prologue and Part I

Posted on March 30, 2020 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations blog has been quiet for a while, but he’s just posted two parts of his extended essay, “Under Afghan Skies” – Prologue and Part I Here’s the first part of the Prologue post: In what seems … Continue reading →

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