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Books received – Politzer, Nelson, Keshavarzian, Daix, Livingstone

Posted on May 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Politzer, Les Trois morts de Georges Politzer, William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics and the Making of Citizens, Arang Keshavarzian, Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East, Pierre Daix’s biography … Continue reading →

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Pablo Bustinduy, Space and Political Universalism in Early Modern Physics and Philosophy – Edinburgh University Press, March 2024

Posted on May 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Pablo Bustinduy, Space and Political Universalism in Early Modern Physics and Philosophy – Edinburgh University Press, March 2024

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Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism – Cambridge University Press, February 2024

Posted on May 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism – Cambridge University Press, February 2024

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Eric S. Nelson, Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom – Bloomsbury, November 2023

Posted on May 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Eric S. Nelson, Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom – Bloomsbury, November 2023 In this innovative contribution, Eric S. Nelson offers a contextualized and systematic exploration of the Chinese sources and German language interpretations that shaped Heidegger’s engagement with Daoism … Continue reading →

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Mark Carrigan on writing – beginning of a series of posts

Posted on May 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Mark Carrigan on writing – beginning of a series of posts. Thanks to Dave Beer for the link.

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It’s Not Your Fault That Academic Life is Getting Harder by Glen O’Hara

Posted on May 5, 2024 by stuartelden
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Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access)

Posted on May 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access) From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of … Continue reading →

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Camus journaliste – Le blog de Gallica

Posted on May 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Camus journaliste – Le blog de Gallica L’activité journalistique d’Albert Camus illustre son sens de l’engagement avant, pendant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il utilise la presse comme peu d’écrivains l’ont fait pour dénoncer les injustices et les violences … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Thinking What Comes, eds. Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi, two volumes, Edinburgh University Press, March 2024

Posted on May 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Thinking What Comes, eds. Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi, two volumes, Edinburgh University Press, March 2024 – volume 1; volume 2 In two volumes, Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi present the majority of Jacques Derrida’s untranslated, and previously uncollected, essays and interviews. … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 19: back to Dumézil, politics, and Benveniste in Persia and Afghanistan

Posted on April 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project, I have begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. This is another fascinating period, partly because of the range of books he published – 14 in 11 … Continue reading →

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