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Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57

Posted on May 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57. Michel Foucault’s historical approach is usually understood as moving from archaeology to genealogy, the former describing his work of the 1960s and the latter … Continue reading →

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Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025

Posted on May 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025 I’m sure this will be interesting, but I’m disappointed it’s only 160 pages. This really feels like it needs someone to do a really major treatment. I’ve read the Jeff … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, and The Song of Igor – other sources for the story of a failed collaboration

Posted on May 4, 2025 by stuartelden

In a previous piece on Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, Marc Szeftel and The Song of Igor, I outlined the story of a planned collaborative edition and English translation of the Slavic epic The Song of Igor. This is a text of disputed … Continue reading →

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Critique 935 – Après Canguilhem: Nouveaux dialogues entre médecine et philosophie

Posted on May 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Critique 935 – Après Canguilhem: Nouveaux dialogues entre médecine et philosophie « Ôtez Canguilhem et vous ne comprenez plus grand-chose à toute une série de discussions. » Par ces mots, Michel Foucault faisait de Georges Canguilhem l’invisible clef de voûte de la … Continue reading →

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Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science – Springer, 2024

Posted on May 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science – Springer, 2024 This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically … Continue reading →

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Alain Corbin, Fragility: A History of Plaster, trans. Helen Morrison – Polity, June 2025

Posted on May 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Alain Corbin, Fragility: A History of Plaster, trans. Helen Morrison – Polity, June 2025 The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since … Continue reading →

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025

Posted on May 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 Update June 2025: New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende An exploration of the political thought of one of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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Garrett Felber, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre – AK Books, May 2025

Posted on May 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Garrett Felber, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre – AK Books, May 2025 We’re really excited to be working with AK Press on the preorder campaign for this new book on Buffalo legend, Martin Sostre! For each … Continue reading →

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Todd Meyers, Gone Gone – Duke University Press, March 2025

Posted on April 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Todd Meyers, Gone Gone – Duke University Press, March 2025 In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkin, The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity: Tracing the Roots of Colonialism, Secularity, and Ecology – Cambridge University Press, December 2025

Posted on April 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin, The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity: Tracing the Roots of Colonialism, Secularity, and Ecology – Cambridge University Press, December 2025 The state of nature is a powerful idea at the heart of the fragmented and sometimes … Continue reading →

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