Monthly Archives: August 2025

Gilles Deleuze, Sur Spinoza, ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2024

Posted on August 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, Sur Spinoza, ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2024 Juste après la destruction de l’université de Vincennes en 1980, Deleuze consacre ses premiers cours dans les nouveaux locaux de Saint-Denis à l’Éthique de Spinoza. Ce n’est certainement pas un hasard, étant … Continue reading →

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Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy – New Books discussion with Erika Monahan

Posted on August 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy – New Books discussion with Erika Monahan Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023) Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the … Continue reading →

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Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025

Posted on August 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 A translation of Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023 Update October 2025: New Books … Continue reading →

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Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture series – two volumes open access

Posted on August 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Stockholm Studies in Indo-European Language and Culture series Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander, Anders Richardt Jørgensen eds. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology – Stockholm University Press, 2024 Current scientific advances are reshaping our understanding of prehistory, offering unprecedented insights into … Continue reading →

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Joshua Comaroff, Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore – University of Minnesota Press, November 2025

Posted on August 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Joshua Comaroff, Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore – University of Minnesota Press, November 2025 In Singapore, the financial center of Southeast Asia, hyperurbanization and commercial development exist alongside enduring belief in the economic power of ghosts: in their … Continue reading →

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Felia Allum, Women in the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra – Cornell University Press, July 2024

Posted on August 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Felia Allum, Women in the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra – Cornell University Press, July 2024 Women of the Mafia dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld of the Camorra as seen and lived by the women who inhabit … Continue reading →

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Christopher R. Rossi, The Arctic Großraum: Geopolitics and the High North – Bloomsbury, September 2025

Posted on August 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Christopher R. Rossi, The Arctic Großraum: Geopolitics and the High North – Bloomsbury, September 2025 How should the Arctic be viewed in the 21st century? In this book, a leading commentator assesses the competing players for the Arctic, looking at … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 29: working on Benveniste’s Vocabulaire, Dumézil’s Bilan and other work

Posted on August 18, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve been back in the UK for a few months, though I continue to work through the archival material I saw in the United States, some of which is in the form of notes, some photos of things, and a … Continue reading →

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Lucien Gerschel, Georges Dumézil, William Shakespeare and the history of Coriolanus 

Posted on August 17, 2025 by stuartelden

One of Georges Dumézil’s most loyal students was Lucien Gerschel. He seems to have begun attending his classes at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1937-38, but certainly was there for the 1938-39 course which became Dumézil’s 1940 book Mitra-Varuna. … Continue reading →

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Isabel K. Köster, Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination – University of Michigan Press, January 2026

Posted on August 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Isabel K. Köster, Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination – University of Michigan Press, January 2026 Stealing from the Gods investigates how authors writing between the first century BCE and second century CE addressed the issue of … Continue reading →

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