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Albert Camus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist—and arguably, although he came to deny it, a… Read more
New Book: Lives on the Left: Interviews with New Left Review
Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with New Left Review. The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing,… Read more
LENIN’S TOMB: Louis Althusser and socialist strategy
I need to address the influence of Louis Althusser. There is, as Ellen Meiksins Wood has pointed out, a trajectory that can broadly be sketched with Althusser, Poulantzas and… Read more
Martin Heidegger (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements… Read more
Michel Foucault: Ethics
The French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926-1984) does not understand ethics as moral philosophy, the metaphysical and epistemological investigation of ethical concepts (metaethics) and the investigation of the criteria… Read more
Philosophers Zone – 24 September 2011 – The Mind of Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Emile Lacan, who died in 1981, was a French psychoanalyst and follower of Freud, but his influence has extended far beyond the boundaries of psychiatry: to philosophy, critical… Read more
Foucault. Interview with Stephen Shapiro (2011) « Foucault News
Link to details and podcast English Literature student Alexander Freer and PPE student Danny Smith interview Professor Stephen Shapiro on Foucault’s major theories as part of a series looking at… Read more
Lacan’s unpublished seminars
These translations were originally done for a reading group of colleagues and graduates which has met since 1987. Each translation was drafted during the summer vacation, was worked through on… Read more
My hero: Friedrich Nietzsche by Geoff Dyer
Not the chest-beating, costume-drama, moon-launch Nietzsche of Zarathustra – though there’s fantastic stuff in it. And not the slanderous version stitched together by his sister, Elisabeth, and hoisted as a… Read more
Audio: Deleuze’s university lectures (1979-1987)
Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, has over 170 audio lectures of Deleuze from 1979 to 1987, including his remarks on Anti-Oedipus, his courses on Cinema, Leibniz,… Read more
Book Review: Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (CCCPR) is the latest installment in a Companion seriesdevoted to a single philosophical text rather than a philosopher. Like the Companions… Read more
Robert Solomon: Sartre’s Phenomenology
This is actually an audio file, hiding beneath a youtube video, by Robert Solomon on Sartre. Link
Video: Michel Foucault par lui-même
Infatigable explorateur des marges, Michel Foucault, mort il y a vingt ans, fut un penseur brillant et atypique. Le documentaire de François Ewald et Philippe Calderon, est consacré à la pensée du philosophe : grâce à des extraits de ses livres et de ses conférences ou lectures, et en s’appuyant sur des images qui les mettent en résonnance, voyage au centre de la pensée de Foucault.
Theory, Culture & Society: Interview with David Macey on Fanon, Foucault and Race
Interview with David Macey on Fanon, Foucault and RacePhoto: David MaceySimon Dawes interviews David Macey about his contribution to the Special Section on Frantz Fanon in the current issue of… Read more
The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis” : Platypus
The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis” Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 Against Badiou ALAIN BADIOU’S RECENT BOOK (2010) is titled with the phrase… Read more
Benjamin: Gathering Storm
Gathering Storm Aberrant Marxist, heretical Jew, maverick social theorist—Walter Benjamin remains difficult to classify, but his mystique only continues to grow In the last five years, more than 300 books… Read more
Idealistic Studies – Volume 39, Number 1/3 – 2009
Gary Overvold, Editor’s Note James R. Mensch, The Phenomenological Status of the Ego Christopher Arroyo, The Role of Feelings in Husserl’s Ethics Tracy Colony, Concerning Technology Maria Granik, Mary Troxell,… Read more
JBSP: Volume 41 – No 2 – May 2010
JBSP: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Volume 41 – No 2 – May 2010: Confrontations TRACY COLONY: A Matter of Time: Stiegler on Heidegger and Being Technological ERNST… Read more