Monthly Archives: May 2025

Online discussion of Chris Philo’s Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination – 27 May 2025

Posted on May 20, 2025 by stuartelden

A reminder of this event on 27 May 2025, 5.30pm, online – a discussion of Chris Philo’s important new book Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025). Reminder: London Group of Historical Geographers – registration (free, but required … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 28: archives in Princeton, Chicago and final work in New York

Posted on May 20, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve continued my work with archives in the USA over the past several weeks. Some of this has been in relation to the Indo-European Thought project, but I’ve managed to work on some peripheral things too.I had two days in Princeton, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Adorno, Benveniste, Jakobson, Godel

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Three books by Adorno from Verso, and second-hand copies of Émile Benveniste’s Indo-European Language and Society, the first volume of Roman Jakobson’s Selected Writings, and Robert Godel, Les Sources Manuscrites du cours de linguistique générale de F. de Saussure.

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Books received – Robeyns, Billé, Legg, Neocleous, Daviron, Granet, Shapiro, Testa, Carrigan, Pothecary

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Books generously sent to me by publishers, authors or editors. Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism; Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities; Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police; … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 (open access)

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 As I was away, I’ve only just received the editor copies. The … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Koyré in Cairo

Posted on May 18, 2025 by stuartelden

This is a revised and expanded version of a post from September 2024 Alexandre Koyré’s teaching career was predominantly in Paris and the United States. Born in Russia, he studied in Paris and Germany, before beginning teaching at the École Pratique des Hautes … Continue reading →

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Books received – Vendryes, Critique, Jakobson & Pomorska, Rose, Zerelli, Nabokov & Wilson, Koyré, Wikander, Jakobson & Fischer-Jørgensen

Posted on May 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand while in New York, but also the recent Critique issue on Canguilhem, the new translation of Stig Wikander, The Aryan Männerbund, and Linda M.G. Zerelli, A Democratic Theory of Truth.

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Michael Hagner, Seeing Foucault’s Pendulum: Between Science, Politics, and Art, trans. Robert Savage, Zone Books, September/November 2025

Posted on May 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Hagner, Seeing Foucault’s Pendulum: Between Science, Politics, and Art, trans. Robert Savage, Zone Books, September/November 2025 In 1851, the physicist Léon Foucault performed an unforgettable experiment. By suspending a large pendulum inside the dome of Paris’ Pantheon, Foucault provided the … Continue reading →

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Alison Bashford, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on May 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Alison Bashford, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 The astonishing story of palmistry—from occultists to the very foundations of modern science and medicine.  Why did Isaac Newton read books on … Continue reading →

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David Eltis, Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades – Cambridge University Press, February 2025

Posted on May 15, 2025 by stuartelden

David Eltis, Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades – Cambridge University Press, February 2025 In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in … Continue reading →

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