Category Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche

Books received – Renou, Althusser, Safransky, Zumwalt, Woodard

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the Indo-European project, along with Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, sent by Duke University Press. The Rosemary LévyZumwalt book is the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1939 book on Nietzsche and the ‘Liste Otto’ – which books of his were banned?

Posted on July 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Update June 2025: a revised and expanded version of this post is here. About twenty years ago, in an essay on Henri Lefebvre, I said that his book on Nietzsche (1939) was on the prohibited ‘Liste Otto’. These were books … Continue reading →

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Edgar Landgraf, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism – University of Minnesota Press, September 2023

Posted on June 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Edgar Landgraf, Nietzsche’s Posthumanism – University of Minnesota Press, September 2023 While many posthumanists claim Nietzsche as one of their own, rarely do they engage his philosophy in any real depth. Nietzsche’s Posthumanism addresses this need by exploring the continuities and disagreements … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’ – *open access until mid-June*

Posted on June 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Theory, Culture and Society Special Issue: ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini A reminder that all papers are open access until mid June 2023 – after that date only a few … Continue reading →

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Books received – Chestov, Nietzsche, Ginzburg, Rose, Spotts, Bataille

Posted on May 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Some recently bought books – Léon Chestov’s L’idée de bien chez Tolstoï et Nietzsche (Bataille was one of the translators); the two most recent volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Carlo Ginzburg’s The Judge and the Historian; Gillian Rose, Judaism … Continue reading →

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How Nietzsche came in from the Cold – Philipp Felsch’s book and a two-part interview

Posted on May 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Philipp Felsch’s book Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam [How Nietzsche came in from the cold] was mentioned at the workshop on translation and the archive yesterday. It’s a study of the two Italian editors and translators of Nietzsche, Colli and Montinari. … Continue reading →

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Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, Senate House, London, 19 May 2023 – organised by Henry Somers-Hall with Julia Ng, Alan Schrift, Daniel Smith, Charles Stivale and Stuart Elden

Posted on March 31, 2023 by stuartelden

On 19 May 2023 I’ll speaking at a workshop on Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition, organised by Henry Somers-Hall for Royal Holloway, University of London. It will be held in central London at Senate House. Registration is … Continue reading →

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Foucault before the Collège de France – theme issue of Theory, Culture & Society, now published

Posted on March 26, 2023 by stuartelden

‘Foucault before the Collège de France’ – theme issue of Theory, Culture & Society, coming soon, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini [Update: the whole issue is now online here] Some of the papers are available online … Continue reading →

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Melissa Pawelski, “Between ‘Körper’ and ‘Leib’ – Translating Michel Foucault’s concept of the body after Friedrich Nietzsche”, Perspectives, 2022 (open access)

Posted on December 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Melissa Pawelski, “Between ‘Körper’ and ‘Leib’ – Translating Michel Foucault’s concept of the body after Friedrich Nietzsche“, Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 2022 (open access) This article analyses the German words ‘Leib’ and ‘Körper’ that can both be … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, The Archaeology of Foucault – Polity, December 2022 The fourth and final book in my series of studies of Foucault’s career is now published in the UK. US and rest of the world will follow in early 2023. … Continue reading →

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