Monthly Archives: July 2024

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 22: finishing a draft of a chapter on Dumézil between 1938 and 1949; continuing work on Benveniste’s archive; and an article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Posted on July 31, 2024 by stuartelden

July has been a steady month of progress on this project. I’d hoped to complete the chapter on Georges Dumézil’s work between 1938 and 1949 well before now, but it continued into this month too. It is another very long … Continue reading →

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Darin Weinberg, On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory – Duke University Press, September 2024

Posted on July 31, 2024 by stuartelden

Darin Weinberg, On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory – Duke University Press, September 2024 The introduction is open access here. Mainstream addiction science sees addiction either as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control or … Continue reading →

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Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, The Spectre of State Capitalism – OUP, July 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on July 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, The Spectre of State Capitalism – OUP, July 2024 (print and open access) The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity” – article published in Journal of the History of Ideas

Posted on July 29, 2024 by stuartelden

I’m really pleased to have an article in the new issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas: Stuart Elden, “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol 85 No 3, July 2024, 571-600 The … Continue reading →

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Theory and Social Inquiry – relaunch of Theory and Society as open access journal

Posted on July 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Theory and Social Inquiry – relaunch of Theory and Society as open access journal Theory and Social Inquiry is dedicated to analyzing all facets and dimensions of social life, from micro-level interactions between individuals to the durable institutions that organize societies … Continue reading →

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Peter Osborne (ed.) Futurethoughts: Critical Histories of Philosophy – CRMEP, 2024 (open access; includes new translations of Foucault)

Posted on July 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Peter Osborne (ed.) Futurethoughts: Critical Histories of Philosophy – CRMEP, 2024 Available open access, this includes new translations of Foucault – parts of his 1950s course on anthropology and his tribute to Jean Hyppolite. Contributors: Isabelle Alfandary, Éric Alliez, Anna … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Reactionary Mind: Counterrevolution Fascism Militarism – Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 31 August 2024

Posted on July 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and the Reactionary Mind: Counterrevolution, Fascism, Militarism – Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 31 August 2024 Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton, TW12 2EJ, United Kingdom Speakers – John Gillies, Amy Lidster, Björn Quiring, Jennifer Rust and Richard … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s revised texts – a list with links to comparisons

Posted on July 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault did not continually revise his earlier texts in the way some other authors do. But some of his books and articles do exist in different versions. This is not always fully recognised, and some of these changes are … Continue reading →

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How annoying are adverts on Progressive Geographies?

Posted on July 24, 2024 by stuartelden

If you read this blog on the web (rather than through an rss reader, for example), and don’t use an ad-blocker, how annoying are the adverts? They are hopefully fairly minimal and have two benefits – they mean I don’t … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis, The Intruder – trans. Jeff Fort, Fordham University Press, May 2024

Posted on July 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis, The Intruder – trans. Jeff Fort, Fordham University Press, May 2024 In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy’s heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger’s heart was grafted into his body. … Continue reading →

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