Monthly Archives: September 2025

Berfrois articles – a complete archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Posted on September 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … Continue reading →

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Thomas Crow, Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution – Princeton University Press, November 2025

Posted on September 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Thomas Crow, Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution – Princeton University Press, November 2025 thanks to John Raimo for the link Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat depicts the painter’s friend and fellow revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat collapsed … Continue reading →

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Raymond Geuss, Seeing Double – Polity, April 2024 and NDPR review

Posted on September 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Raymond Geuss, Seeing Double – Polity, April 2024 NDPR review by Espen Hammer The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, … Continue reading →

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Robert St. Clair, Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Constellations of Loss in Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert – Oxford University Press, July 2025

Posted on September 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Robert St. Clair, Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Constellations of Loss in Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert – Oxford University Press, July 2025 Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of … Continue reading →

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Erwin Panofsky’s dog and Ernst Kantorowicz

Posted on September 15, 2025 by stuartelden

In the archives of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, there are some papers relating to Erwin Panofsky, the art historian, collected by his second wife Gerda Panofsky (née Sörgel). I was led there by the question of the … Continue reading →

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Faye Donnelly and Tilman Schwarze eds. Security and Space: In Pursuit of Interconnections – Bristol University Press, May 2026

Posted on September 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Faye Donnelly and Tilman Schwarze eds. Security and Space: In Pursuit of Interconnections – Bristol University Press, May 2026 This book brings fresh insights into how social spaces shape the way we experience and understand security. Chapters unite voices from … Continue reading →

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Pierre Bourdieu and Erwin Panofsky: Architecture, Scholasticism and the Concept of Habitus

Posted on September 14, 2025 by stuartelden

In 1967, Pierre Bourdieu translated Erwin Panofsky’s 1951 book Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism into French. The German-born Panofsky is best known for his work in art history, and for developing Aby Warburg’s distinction between iconography and iconology. He was teaching alternate semesters … Continue reading →

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Hegel 13/13 – Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought series

Posted on September 13, 2025 by stuartelden

The seminars at the Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought organised by Bernard Harcourt continue with Hegel 13/13. I was able to go to several of the Marx 13/13 series earlier this year, and the larger events are usually … Continue reading →

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Michael J. Shapiro, Thinking Outside the Canon: Political Theory as Textual Odyssey – Oxford University Press, October 2025

Posted on September 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Hot on the heels of Negotiating Civic Life: Literature, Film, Politics (Edinburgh University Press, May 2025), Michael J. Shapiro has another book out – Thinking Outside the Canon: Political Theory as Textual Odyssey, Oxford University Press, October 2025 Thinking Outside the … Continue reading →

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Bourse internationale IMEC/Centre Michel Foucault, 2025

Posted on September 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Bourse internationale IMEC/Centre Michel Foucault, 2025 – détails at Foucault News Version PDFL’Imec et le Centre Michel Foucault lancent un appel à chercheur pour l’attribution de la 5ème Bourse internationale Imec/Centre Michel Foucault. L’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (Imec), préserve et met … Continue reading →

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