Category Archives: People

Books received – a pile from the Verso sale

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

The Verso sale runs until the end of December 2019

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Books received – Dumézil, Sartre, Canguilhem, Baxstrom and Meyers

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

Two books by Dumézil, one by Sartre, the latest volume of the Canguilhem Oeuvres, and Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible.

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The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society

Posted on December 16, 2019 by stuartelden

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society – edited by Michael E. Leary-Owhin and John P. McCarthy The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre’s … Continue reading →

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A bibliographical curiosity – ‘Michel Foucault’ and a thesis on penicillin

Posted on December 10, 2019 by stuartelden

Michael Clark’s Michel Foucault, an Annotated Bibliography: Tool Kit for a New Age includes a curious entry on p. 3: “Sur l’emploi de la pénicilline par voie buccale”, Paris: Université Faculté de médecine, 1952 [?], 56 pages. The title would translate … Continue reading →

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Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva – Bloomsbury, January 2020

Posted on December 9, 2019 by stuartelden

Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva – Bloomsbury, January 2020 At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva–one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Her some fifty books, … Continue reading →

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Althusser’s 1963 Presentation of Bourdieu and Passeron – translated and introduced in Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on December 5, 2019 by stuartelden

On 6 December 1963 Pierre Bourdieu and Passeron gave a seminar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. They were introduced by Louis Althusser, and his introduction, translated by Rachel Gomme, along with a commentary by Charlotte Branchu and Derek Robbins has been published in Theory, … Continue reading →

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Gilles Deleuze, Louis Althusser, Peter Sloterdijk, Pierre Bourdieu, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Kuhn, Bradley, Mbembe, Fisher and Gotman (eds.), Derrida, Delay and Verdeaux

Posted on November 22, 2019 by stuartelden

The books by Kuhn and Delay and Verdeaux are for the work on the early Foucault; Arthur Bradley, Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure was sent by the publishers; and the Derrida and Mbembe books are newly out. Mbembe’s Necropolitics contains … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche Or the Realm of Shadows – translated by David Fernbach, Verso, February 2020

Posted on November 18, 2019 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche Or the Realm of Shadows – translated by David Fernbach, Verso, February 2020 I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s now up on the Verso site and online bookstores. I wrote an Introduction to this. A … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 28 – second half of the manuscript, Swiss archives and asylums

Posted on November 12, 2019 by stuartelden

Term 1 is when I do most of my teaching, but I’ve been doing a little bit of work on my The Early Foucault manuscript most days. I’ve mainly been reworking the organisation of the second half of the text. Chapter 6 … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sartre, Mbembe, Guedez, Lefebvre, Gil, Eiland and Jennings

Posted on November 12, 2019 by stuartelden

Sartre’s Search for a Method and two books by Achille Mbembe for teaching; Annie Guédez’s early study of Foucault, which relates him to psychology; the new edition of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanlaysis; and two biographies – Marie Gil on Roland Barthes and Howard Eiland … Continue reading →

Posted in Achille Mbembe, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Uncategorized, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment