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Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique (2023)

Posted on May 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, Le Discours philosophique, eds. Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera – Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, 2023 Qu’est-ce que la philosophie et quel est son rôle aujourd’hui ? Entre juillet et octobre 1966, quelques mois après la parution…

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Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall and Jonathan Silver (eds.), Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities – Bristol University Press, May 2023

Posted on May 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall and Jonathan Silver (eds.), Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities – Bristol University Press, May 2023 Update: the book is available open access here Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited … Continue reading →

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Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times – Yale University Press, August 2023

Posted on May 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times – Yale University Press, August 2023 By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its … Continue reading →

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The end of WordPress-Twitter functionality

Posted on April 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m disappointed to hear that WordPress posts will no longer be able to be shared to Twitter automatically. It’s of course possible to do this manually, but it’s still frustrating for me, as someone who has used this blog for … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 11: Dumézil and Charachidzé’s work on Ubykh; Lévi-Strauss and his archive; Eliade’s correspondence; Koyré’s networks; and continuing work with Dumézil’s archive

Posted on April 28, 2023 by stuartelden

My attempt with this project to keep to a broadly chronological order of working through of Georges Dumézil’s major publications (see last update) took a bit of a detour, as his 1931 book La Langue des Oubykhs led me to follow the thread … Continue reading →

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Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States – University of Chicago Press, November 2023

Posted on April 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States – University of Chicago Press, November 2023 A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to the Festschrift? And has anyone written about them?

Posted on April 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Has anyone written about the history of publishing Festschrift ? There doesn’t seem to be an obvious English equivalent term. They are/were books dedicated to an author at the time of a significant birthday or retirement. Books of celebration, homage or tribute, … Continue reading →

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Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science – Cornell University Press, 2023

Posted on April 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science – Cornell University Press, 2023 In The Will to Predict, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the conceptual and institutional history of … Continue reading →

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Hugh Lopes Williams, ‘Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Political Paradoxes of Structural Anthropology’ – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on April 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Hugh Lopes Williams, ‘Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Political Paradoxes of Structural Anthropology‘ – Journal of the History of Ideas blog In 1952, Claude Lévi-Strauss, then a respected but by no means famous anthropologist, published the short book Race and History, commissioned … Continue reading →

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Tim Simpson, Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023

Posted on April 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Tim Simpson, Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution – University of Minnesota Press, April 2023 Update: there is a New Books discussion with Michael O. Johnston here. Betting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was … Continue reading →

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