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Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life – Bloomsbury, 2019 (and short piece in The Guardian)

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life – Bloomsbury, 2019 “One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and … Continue reading →

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Warwick IAS WIRL-COFUND 2 year early career fellowships

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

The Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce that up to five fellowships will be available in 2019 as part of the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Leadership programme (WIRL-COFUND). The WIRL-COFUND fellowships are jointly … Continue reading →

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Two four-year post-doctoral positions, University of Warwick – ‘Neoliberal Terror: The Radicalisation of Social Policy in Europe’

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

The Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick have two post-doctoral positions available, and seek your help sharing the vacancies.  Each post-doc has a fixed four-year term of employment, working on the European Research Council funded … Continue reading →

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Books received – Baxstrom & Meyers, Nietzsche, Bloch, Bataille, Quiring, Sjöholm, Morin

Posted on October 2, 2019 by stuartelden

Richard Baxstrom & Todd Meyers, Violence’s Failed Experiment; Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Marc Bloch, Feudal Society; Mark Hewson and Marcus Coelen, Georges Bataille: Key Concepts; Björn Quiring, Shakespeare’s Curse; Cecilia Sjöholm, Kristeva and the Political; and Karin M. Morin, Carceral … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Folie, langage, littérature (2019)

Posted on October 1, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, Folie, langage, littérature Édition établie par H.-P. Fruchaud, D. Lorenzini et J. Revel. Introduction par J. Revel. Vrin 2019 La folie, le langage et la littérature ont longtemps occupé une place centrale dans…

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New issue of Radical Philosophy published

Posted on October 1, 2019 by stuartelden

The new Radical Philosophy issue is now online, with a dossier in memoriam of Sabah Mahmood, and contributions by Angela Davis, Elsa Dorlin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and many others. Open access here – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com

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New issue of New Perspectives published

Posted on October 1, 2019 by stuartelden

New issue of New Perspectives published – open access Editorial 1. Looking. Again. Benjamin Tallis Essay James Der Derian 2. A Quantum of Insecurity Research Articles Julia Bethwaite & Anni Kangas 3. Parties, Pavilions and Protests: The Heteronomous World Politics … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault Update 27: Paris, Wales, Kant

Posted on September 30, 2019 by stuartelden

Thankfully, this book manuscript has been the main focus again of work over the past month. I’ve been continuing to work on Foucault’s relation to Dumézil, on Foucault’s time in Warsaw and Hamburg, and other things in the later 1950s. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Kant, Lichnerowicz et. al., Magazine littéraire

Posted on September 30, 2019 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books bought recently, mainly by Georges Dumézil, but also the Akademie Textausgabe of Kant’s Anthropologie, and the proceedings of a Collège de France seminar. I can’t remember seeing a typo on a book’s spine before…  

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Henri Lefebvre’s former house in Navarrenx for sale

Posted on September 29, 2019 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s former house in Navarrenx for sale Thanks to Andy Merrifield for the link – from May 2019, and not sure it is still for sale.

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