Category Archives: Peter Gratton

Canguilhem, Shakespeare, Snowdonia, Klagenfurt

Posted on May 28, 2019 by stuartelden

Last week I was in Cambridge for a book launch for Canguilhem (Polity 2019). The event was introduced by Inanna Hamati-Ataya, and Simon Reid-Henry provided a generous and incisive reading of the book. There was a good discussion, and I’m grateful … Continue reading →

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Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy – Oxford, 28-30 March 2019

Posted on October 19, 2018 by stuartelden

Thinking with Jean-Luc Nancy – Oxford, 28-30 March 2019 – details and call for papers (English and French) Balliol College – University of Oxford (UK) Keynote Speakers: Jean-Luc Nancy (University of Strasbourg) and Emmanuel Falque (Catholic University of Paris) Organisers: Marie … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Punitive Society and my two Foucault books reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton

Posted on September 12, 2017 by stuartelden

Foucault’s The Punitive Society lecture course and my Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power are reviewed in 3am Magazine by Peter Gratton. It’s a long, thoughtful and generous review. As well as saying many insightful things about the books reviewed, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Evangelou, Gratton, Girard, Webster, Shakespeare?

Posted on September 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work for Palgrave and Bloomsbury – King Edward III, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, Girard’s Violence and the Sacred, Peter Gratton’s Speculative Realism and Angelos Evangelou’s Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida. Although … Continue reading →

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Peter Gratton’s lectures from his New Derrida course

Posted on January 23, 2017 by stuartelden

At his Philosophy in a Time of Error blog, Peter Gratton is sharing the lectures from his New Derrida course – lecture one (introduction) and lecture two (‘The Animal’). [Update: Lecture three is here]. I won’t continually link to new lectures as they go … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – discussion with Peter Gratton, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor in Symposium (open access)

Posted on November 22, 2016 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton, “Foucault’s Last Decade: An Interview with Stuart Elden, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor“, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol 20 No 2, 2016, pp. 181-211. The interview is open access in pdf form.

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Books and journals received – Symposium, Radical Philosophy, Esposito and an early piece by Foucault

Posted on November 7, 2016 by stuartelden

A few books and journals received. The final issue of Radical Philosophy in its present form; Roberto Esposito’s Two; an issue of Symposium and a book which contains an early piece by Foucault. The Symposium issue has the discussion between me, Peter Gratton, Eduardo … Continue reading →

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Interviews on Foucault’s Last Decade – one out, one discussion forthcoming

Posted on August 3, 2016 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton kindly links to my Interview with Eugene Wolters at critical-theory.com, which I shared at the weekend, and also mentions that he is currently interviewing me, along with Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor, for Symposium. The interview uses the book as a starting … Continue reading →

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Michael Naas on forms of life in Plato – audio recording

Posted on April 7, 2016 by stuartelden

Michael Naas on forms of life in Plato – audio recording from a talk at Memorial University of Newfoundland. A fascinating talk on bios and zoe throughout Plato’s work – which adds much needed nuance to the rather crude distinction Agamben … Continue reading →

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Peter Gratton, Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects reviewed at NDPR

Posted on March 30, 2016 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton, Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects, is reviewed by Rick Dolphijn, at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (open access).  

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