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Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett’s 1980 NYU seminar on “Sexuality and Solitude” – some notes on attendance and readings

Posted on March 23, 2025 by stuartelden

The “Sexuality and Solitude” lecture was delivered by Richard Sennett and Michel Foucault to the New York Institute for the Humanities on 20 November 1980 at 5.30pm. It was held in the Tishman Auditorium of Vanderbilt Hall on Washington Square. … Continue reading →

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Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography – EPFL Press, April 2025

Posted on March 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography – EPFL Press, April 2025, distributed by University of Chicago Press I’ve mentioned the French version Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière before; but the English also … Continue reading →

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Martin Albrow, Integrity: The Rise of a Distinctive Western Idea and its Destiny – Polity, January 2025

Posted on March 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Martin Albrow, Integrity: The Rise of a Distinctive Western Idea and its Destiny – Polity, January 2025 Public life is dominated from time to time by media storms around integrity. The behaviour of elected political leaders has led many to … Continue reading →

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St Andrews and Nottingham talks on the ‘Indo-European’ project – audio recordings

Posted on March 21, 2025 by stuartelden

A couple of audio recordings of talks I’ve given on my ‘Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France‘ project. There is background on the project and some other recordings, updates on the research, short pieces and research resources at that page. … Continue reading →

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Moritz Föllmer, The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History – Cambridge University Press, March 2025

Posted on March 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Moritz Föllmer, The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History – Cambridge University Press, March 2025 What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? … Continue reading →

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Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age – University of Chicago Press, March 2025

Posted on March 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age – University of Chicago Press, March 2025 From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawning of a new world—a halcyon … Continue reading →

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Julia Rose Kraut, Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States – Harvard University Press, March 2023

Posted on March 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Julia Rose Kraut, Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States – Harvard University Press, March 2023 Beginning with the Alien Friends Act of 1798, the United States has passed laws in the name … Continue reading →

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Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion, trans. Andrew James Bliss – Verso, May 2025

Posted on March 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion, trans. Andrew James Bliss – Verso, May 2025 An original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age — the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition … Continue reading →

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Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: Essai d’archéologie intellectuelle, suivi de leur correspondance inédite – Éditions de Minuit, March 2025

Posted on March 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: Essai d’archéologie intellectuelle, suivi de leur correspondance inédite – Éditions de Minuit, March 2025 Ce livre raconte, à partir d’archives inédites, l’histoire de la rencontre entre deux figures emblématiques des sciences humaines … Continue reading →

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Hannah Arendt, David Farrell Krell and the early English translations of Heidegger

Posted on March 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Some years ago, when I was working on Heidegger, I read David Farrell Krell’s “Work Sessions with Martin Heidegger” essay. These were sessions in which Krell discussed some of Heidegger’s vocabulary and worked with him on possible English renderings, as … Continue reading →

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