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Len Lawlor’s From Violence to Speaking Out: Apocalypse and Expression in Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze reviewed in NDPR

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
by my colleague Jeff Bell here.

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Bryan Magee (1930-2019) – tribute by Henry Hardy and links to his TV discussions

Bryan Magee (1930-2019) – tribute by Henry Hardy and links to his TV discussions – with Isaiah Berlin, Herbert Marcus, AJ Ayer, Noam Chomsky, Iris Murdoch and many others. Thanks to Jo Wolff for the links. The Great Philosophers was one … Continue reading

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Agnes Heller (1929-2019) – tribute at Daily Nous

I’m slow to link to the news about Agnes Heller (1929-2019), who died recently. There is a tribute at Daily Nous along with links to obituaries from Reuters, Hungary Today, Deutsche Welle, Le Monde.  

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Nadia Bou Ali and Rohit Goel (eds.), Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics, Bloomsbury, 2019 – reviewed at NDPR

Nadia Bou Ali and Rohit Goel (eds.), Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics, Bloomsbury, 2019 – reviewed at NDPR. Sounds an interesting, if uneven collection. Shame about the prohibitive price. This book grew out of a 2015 conference at … Continue reading

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Remembering Paul Virilio: New Issue of Cultural Politics July 2019 (requires subscription)

Remembering Paul Virilio: New Issue of Cultural Politics July 2019 (requires subscription)  

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How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound, edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Kaitlin Heller- Punctum, summer 2019

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound, edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Kaitlin Heller- Punctum, summer 2019 – the follow-up to How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page What do we…

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Hannah Arendt and Shakespeare, September 7, 2019

Originally posted on Kingston Shakespeare Seminar:
David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755, as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on the plays. He hoped Voltaire would come.…

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Call for Papers for the Second Annual Conference: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

Call for papers – Second Annual Conference: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

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Michel Foucault, Folie, Langage, Litterature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini and Judith Revel, Vrin, September 2019

Michel Foucault, Folie, Langage, Litterature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini and Judith Revel, Vrin, September 2019 The latest collection of pieces from the archive, with an introduction by Judith Revel. La folie, le langage et la littérature ont longtemps … Continue reading

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Books received – Melossi & Pavarini, Talcott, Foucault, Hall

Books received in recompense for review work – Dario Melossi & Massimo Pavarini, The Prison and the Factory; Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error; Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth and Parrēsia, and Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger: A Life between … Continue reading

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