Monthly Archives: October 2023

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 14: returning to work, tracking Benveniste’s teaching, and working with archives including the Aurel Stein collections in London

Posted on October 31, 2023 by stuartelden

I have now been back at work for a few weeks, initially beginning half-time and gradually increasing what I can do. The support I have had from my department for a long period off work and a phased transition has … Continue reading →

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Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World – ed. Alice Kaplan, trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, March 2023

Posted on October 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World – ed. Alice Kaplan, trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, March 2023 Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South … Continue reading →

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Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History – Bloomsbury, February 2024

Posted on October 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History – Bloomsbury, February 2024 What does history look like without ‘civilisations’? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that define it. The West, … Continue reading →

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Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, trans. Louise Burchill, University of Minnesota Press, December 2023

Posted on October 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Serres, Hermes I: Communication, Translated by Louise Burchill, Introduction by Paul A. Harris, University of Minnesota Press, 2023 Michel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel … Continue reading →

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On the trail of Aurel Stein – working in archives for the Indo-European thought project

Posted on October 27, 2023 by stuartelden

The research for the Indo-European thought project has been difficult to confine to a solely French focus. I knew I wanted to begin what will probably be the first chapter with the story of the Mission Paul Pelliot, an expedition to Chinese … Continue reading →

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Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Verso, January 2023

Posted on October 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Verso, January 2023 Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and … Continue reading →

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Oscar Mazzoleni, Territory and Democratic Politics: A Critical Introduction – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on October 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Oscar Mazzoleni, Territory and Democratic Politics: A Critical Introduction – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 (print and open access) Despite the publication date, the open access version is available now. The book provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to concept of territory … Continue reading →

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Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024

Posted on October 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024 In a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways … Continue reading →

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Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World – Oxford University Press, January 2023

Posted on October 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain – Oxford University Press, January 2023 Part of the Early Modern Literary Geographies series – just an expensive hardback at present Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading →

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Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on October 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

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