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Books received – Leroi-Gourhan, Blanchot, Vogl, Ungar, Heidegger, Bobic and Haghighi

Posted on February 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books connected in part to the ongoing research on Indo-European though in France, the latest volume of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe and copies of Joseph Vogl, Capital and Ressentiment: A Short History of the Present and Nikolina Bobic and … Continue reading →

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Archive: Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (audio recording and other links)

Posted on February 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Richard Sennett and Michel Foucault, Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979) New Books Network, 2 Feb 2023. [See site for recording] In 1979, sociologist and NYIH founder Richard Sennett, and philosopher Michel Foucault,…

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Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, April 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Pierre Hadot, Don’t Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercise – University of Chicago Press, trans. Michael Chase, April 2023 The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot’s final work, now available in English.With a foreword by Arnold I. … Continue reading →

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Andrew Curley, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo – University of Arizona Press, April 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrew Curley, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo – University of Arizona Press, April 2023 For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation’s largest coal plants closed. … Continue reading →

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Alain Corbin, A History of the Wind, trans. William Peniston – Polity, November 2022

Posted on February 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Alain Corbin, A History of the Wind, trans. William Peniston – Polity, November 2022 Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing … Continue reading →

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Sida, prisons, décolonisation : la vie militante de Daniel Defert (2023)

Posted on February 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Sida, prisons, décolonisation : la vie militante de Daniel Defert, France Culture (radio), fév 2023. © Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons – cc-by-sa-3.0, Aucun(e) À propos de la série Une série d’entretiens proposée par Virginie…

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A photo of Daniel Defert in Foucault’s old apartment

Posted on February 8, 2023 by stuartelden

A photo I took of Daniel Defert in 2015 when I visited him in Foucault’s former apartment on the rue de Vaugirard. He’s signing a copy of Un Vie Politique for me.

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Daniel Defert (1937-2023)

Posted on February 8, 2023 by stuartelden

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Daniel Defert, philosophe, sociologue et figure de la lutte contre le sida, est mort Daniel Defert (2015)by Claude Truong-Ngoc L’universitaire a été à l’origine de la création de l’association Aides en 1984, après la disparition…

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Books received – Foucault, Surya, Tsu, Barthes, Lacan

Posted on February 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Some recently bought new and second-hand books, including the paperback of Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China.

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Christopher I. Beckwith, The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China, Princeton University Press, Jan/Mar 2023

Posted on February 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Christopher I. Beckwith, The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China, Princeton University Press, Jan/Mar 2023 In the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the … Continue reading →

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