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Christopher Watkin and Oliver Davis (eds) New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy – Routledge, December 2022

Posted on December 20, 2022 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin and Oliver Davis (eds) New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy – Routledge, December 2022 Hardback and e-book, with two chapters open access What does ‘autonomy’ mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant for contemporary … Continue reading →

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Ludovico Silva, Marx’s Literary Style – Verso, January 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by stuartelden

Ludovico Silva, Marx’s Literary Style – Verso, January 2023 Update: Verso editor Sebastian Budgen comments on the book here A true understanding of Marx’s work requires a careful study of his literary choices

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Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023 Andy tells me the striking cover image is by André Kertész.

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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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Two new Heidegger translations from Polity, December 2022

Posted on December 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Two new Martin Heidegger translations from Polity Metaphysics and Nihilism: 1 – The Overcoming of Metaphysics 2 – The Essence of Nihilism, trans. Arun Iyer On the Essence of Language and the Question of Art, trans. Adam Knowles

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Aaron Zielinski, The Imaginary Force of History: On Images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works (2022)

Posted on December 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Aaron Zielinski (2022) The Imaginary Force of History: On images, the Imaginary, and Myths in Foucault’s Early Works, Critical Review, Published online: 09 Dec 2022 DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2022.2151709 ABSTRACT In manuscripts and unpublished articles written in…

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Thomas Pynchon sells his archive

Posted on December 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
At The New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler reports that Thomas Pynchon has sold his archive to Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The article notes that the “archive includes 48 boxes —…

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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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Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics – Bloomsbury, April 2021 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on December 15, 2022 by stuartelden

Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics – Bloomsbury, April 2021 The Introduction and part of the first chapter are available at the above link. There is also a New Books Network discussion with Bill Schaffer. Suspicious … Continue reading →

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Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 [and open access Introduction]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 Another expensive hardback, but looks interesting… [update: the Introduction is available open access] Update October 2025: NDPR review by Lara … Continue reading →

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