Category Archives: Jacques Derrida

The Early Foucault Update 24: textual comparisons and archive work at BnF, CAPHÉS and IMEC

Posted on February 15, 2019 by stuartelden

Since the last update I have been continuing to work on several different aspects of the work for both The Early Foucault and a planned book on the 1960s. Initially I finished up the work comparing the 1954 text Maladie mentale … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Georges Canguilhem, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

My favourite academic books of 2018

Posted on December 31, 2018 by stuartelden

My favourite academic books of 2018. As with previous years – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 – these are shaped by my interests, books that are sent to me, ones from publishers I review for, etc. etc. I’ve not read all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Doreen Massey, Frantz Fanon, Georges Canguilhem, Jacques Derrida, Jeff Malpas, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Maja Zehfuss, Michel Foucault, Philip Steinberg, Society and Space, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 11 Comments

Books received – Derrida, Agamben, Delaporte, Jordan

Posted on December 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work for Stanford University Press – Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other and Paper Machine; Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies; François Delaporte, Anatomy of the Passions and Mark D. Jordan, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault.

Posted in François Delaporte, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Agamben, Shakespeare, Lecourt, Bataille, Vitale, Zartaloudis, Massey

Posted on December 3, 2018 by stuartelden

Giorgio Agamben, Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm; All’s Well That Ends Well (the penultimate volume of the Arden Shakespeare, third series), Dominique Lecourt, Proletarian Science; Georges Bataille, The Absence of Myth; Francisco Vitale, Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Doreen Massey, Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Books received – Canguilhem, Critique on Bataille, Derrida, Haghighi, Hewitt

Posted on October 30, 2018 by stuartelden

The long-awaited volume V of Georges Canguilhem, Oeuvres complètes, Critique No 195-196 – the tribute issue to Georges Bataille from 1963; Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III; Farzaneh Haghighi, Is the Tehran Bazaar Dead? Foucault, Politics, and Architecture (sent by the publisher) and Rachel Hewitt, Map of a Nation: A … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 20: Paris, some cautions and future work

Posted on October 1, 2018 by stuartelden

It’s been steady progress in the last part of summer on the manuscript of The Early Foucault. I had a few days in Paris in mid-September, where I did my usual pattern of working in the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque Nationale … Continue reading →

Posted in Daniel Defert, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Wahl, Arendt, Foucault, Jaspers, Geroulanos, Bulpitt, Derrida, Gotman

Posted on September 28, 2018 by stuartelden

A mix of books for teaching and the Foucault research – Jean Wahl, Introduction à la pensée de Heidegger; the Henri Corbin early translation of works by Heidegger; Hannah Arendt, On Violence; Foucault at the Movies; the French translation of Karl Jaspers’s book … Continue reading →

Posted in Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Dodds, McCormack, Derrida, Basso, Rekret, Brighenti and Kärrholm

Posted on September 20, 2018 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds, Ice: Nature and Culture; Derek McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment; Jacques Derrida, The Ear of the Other; Elisabetta Basso, Michel Foucault et la Daseinsanalyse; The Derrida Reader edited by Julian Wolfreys; Paul Rekret, Derrida and Foucault, Andrea Mubi Brighenti … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, terrain, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation | Leave a comment

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sexe, race, nation, humanité – Seuil, 2018

Posted on September 6, 2018 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Geschlecht III: Sexe, race, nation, humanité  The third, and previously unpublished, text in Derrida’s series of discussions of Heidegger is coming out with Seuil in October 2018. I’m not quite sure how an essay has become a whole … Continue reading →

Posted in David Farrell Krell, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Books received – Chevalier & Greacen on Foucault, Fanon x 2, McCormack, Baring on Derrida

Posted on August 29, 2018 by stuartelden

Philippe Chevalier and Tim Greacen (eds.), Folie et justice: Relire Foucault; Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks; Derek McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Environmental Envelopment; Edward Baring, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 and Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom. Derek’s book was sent … Continue reading →

Posted in Frantz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments