Monthly Archives: June 2025

Books received – Quinn, Stonebridge, Harari, Donato, Anheim & Pasquali, Kojève, Jakobson, Wilson, Fall

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

A pile of mostly recently bought books, including Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History; Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience; Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Boundaries, Erwin Panofsky, Hannah Arendt, Juliet Fall, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Territory | 1 Comment

May Hawas and Bruce Robbins eds., Teaching Politically: Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy – Fordham University Press, July 2025

Posted on June 10, 2025 by stuartelden

May Hawas and Bruce Robbins eds., Teaching Politically: Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy – Fordham University Press, July 2025 Culture is inextricable from politics. This includes the politics of who we are, as teachers, intellectuals, writers, cultural workers, and … Continue reading →

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Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Plurihistoricity On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession – Routledge, July 2025

Posted on June 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Plurihistoricity On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession – Routledge, July 2025 This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists

Posted on June 8, 2025 by stuartelden

While I’ve been working on my Indo-European thought project, I’ve looked at a few books from the University of Warwick’s library which came from the Gillian Rose collection. Some of the books from that collection could not be borrowed – ones … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Gillian Rose, Mircea Eliade, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Hugo Canihac, Legal and Political Thinking against Sovereignty: A European Intellectual History – Routledge, September 2025

Posted on June 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Hugo Canihac, Legal and Political Thinking against Sovereignty: A European Intellectual History – Routledge, September 2025 At the intersection of the history of constitutional ideas and of political theory, this book offers a new genealogy of the constitutional thought of … Continue reading →

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Lucy Benjamin, Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on June 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Lucy Benjamin, Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025 (print and open access) Explores the connection between ecological crisis and Arendtian politics of the earth Rereads Hannah Arendt’s writings, with a view to … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on June 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading →

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Pierre Nora (1931-2025)

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault News has some of the pieces about the death of Pierre Nora, important editor and historian, and one of the last of his generation.

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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – the resulting publications and the archive of its lectures

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Louis Althusser’s seminars at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) are of course best known for the famous Reading Capital volume, which developed from his 1964-65 seminar. He ran seminars on the young Marx in 1961-62 and Lacan and psychoanalysis in 1963-64. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Mats Andrén, Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea since 1800 – Berghahn, November 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on June 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Mats Andrén, Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea since 1800 – Berghahn, November 2024 (print and open access) Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in … Continue reading →

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