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Michel Foucault THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE (1) Table of Contents

Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
Publication of an unpublished book manuscript by Michel Foucault: PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. Text established by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, under the direction of François Ewald – to be published by Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, in May 2023 The…

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David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023

David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023 An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet … Continue reading →

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Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Correspondance (1897-1927), eds. Rafael Faraco Benthien, Christophe Labaune and Christine Lorre – Classiques Garnier, 2021

Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Correspondance (1897-1927), eds. Rafael Faraco Benthien, Christophe Labaune and Christine Lorre – Classiques Garnier, 2021 This volume significantly increases the corpus of the writings of Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert, by making public letters exchanged during thirty … Continue reading →

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Cornelius Castoriadis, The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983, translated by John Garner, María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta – Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Cornelius Castoriadis, The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983, translated by John Garner, María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta – Edinburgh University Press, 2023 Update December 2024 – now available in paperback and e-book.

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Martha Nussbaum and Politics; Hannah Arendt and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023

Brandon Robshaw, Martha Nussbaum and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023 Providing an overview of the political and ethical philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, this book presents the ideas of this significant philosopher and shows how her thought, while rooted … Continue reading →

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Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis (eds.), Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Manchester University Press, February 2023

Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis (eds.), Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Manchester University Press, February 2023 Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused … Continue reading →

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Stephen Legg, Roundtable Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London – Cambridge University Press, March 2023

Stephen Legg, Roundtable Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London – Cambridge University Press, March 2023 Just an expensive hardback at present, unfortunately. Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India’s constitutional … Continue reading →

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

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)

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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

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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