Category Archives: Raymond Ruyer

Books received – Duras, Ruyer, Deleuze, Meiches, Negri, Dosse, Samson

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Mostly books from University of Minnesota Press, in recompense for review work, and Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers, sent by University of Chicago Press. The UMP books are Marguerite Duras, Writing; Raymond Ruyer, Neofinalism; Gilles Deleuze, On Painting; Benjamin Meiches, The … Continue reading →

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Books written by French professors while prisoners of war in World War II, and the Université de Captivité in Oflag XVII-A

Posted on September 28, 2025 by stuartelden

There are many famous books written in prison, from Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy to Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Socrates’ final words in prison are dramatized by Plato in the Crito. The Marquis de Sade wrote some of his books in prison, and Miguel … Continue reading →

Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, Étienne Wolff, Emmanuel Levinas, Fernand Braudel, François Ellenberger, Georges Canguilhem, Hannah Arendt, Jean Cavaillès, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Raymond Ruyer, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized, Walter Benjamin | 6 Comments

Raymond Ruyer, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2023

Posted on November 22, 2023 by stuartelden

Raymond Ruyer, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information, trans. Amélie Berger-Soraruff, Andrew Iliadis, Daniel W. Smith and Ashley Woodward, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2023 [October 2025: link updated to the Bloomsbury site. They also publish the earlier translation The Genesis of Living … Continue reading →

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