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Mairéad Hanrahan, Genet’s Genres of Politics – Legenda, April 2023

Mairéad Hanrahan, Genet’s Genres of Politics – Legenda, April 2023 Hardback only at the moment, but paperback forthcoming. In this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet’s writing, from the intimate fantasies of the early novels … Continue reading →

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M. L. M. Rodríguez, Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking. Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking’s Thinking (2021)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
María Laura Martínez Rodríguez, Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking. Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking’s Thinking, Springer, 2021 About this book This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking’s work.…

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Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful – a listing of which French texts it includes

I’ve updated the page on this site which lists English translations of texts in Georges Bataille’s Oeuvres complètes and other French collections. The update was to provide references to the recently-published The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson … Continue reading →

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Robert T. Tally Jr., The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity and Apocalyse – Bloomsbury, December 2023

Robert T. Tally Jr., The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity and Apocalyse – Bloomsbury, December 2023 At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, within just a few … Continue reading →

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David Harvey on capital, theory, and becoming a Marxist – video interview with Sebastian Budgen

For fifty years David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars. In addition, his work on the history and geography of capitalist development has transformed our understanding of neoliberalism and the spread … Continue reading →

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Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World, trans. Justin Clemens and Hellmut Munz – Edinburgh University Press, April 2023 [now published]

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World, trans. Justin Clemens and Hellmut Munz – Edinburgh University Press, April 2023 [Update May 2023: the book is now published] It’s great to see this excellent translation of…

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Books received – Ginzburg, Filoni, Simpson, Mehlman, Lévi-Strauss, Dumézil 

Mainly bought second-hand, but also Tim Simpson, Betting on Macau, sent by University of Minnesota Press. Dumézil’s Archaic Roman Religion was hard to find in its original two-volume form, with case – before I had a mismatched set of one … Continue reading →

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CFP: Territories and Identities, A Critical Perspective on Belonging – Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy 9-10 November 2023

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Danielle Allen, Justice by Means of Democracy, University of Chicago Press, April 2023

Danielle Allen, Justice by Means of Democracy, University of Chicago Press, April 2023 At a time of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of the leading democracies question the ability of their governments to deal fairly and competently … Continue reading →

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Extract from Foucault, Le discours philosophique (2023)

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Michel Foucault : qu’est-ce que la philosophie?, Actualité: l’univers du livre, 18/04/2023 The first 26 pages of the uncorrected proofs to the book are attached to this article. Le Discours philosophique propose ainsi une nouvelle…

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