Monthly Archives: July 2026

Book review of Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner

Posted on July 3, 2026 by stuartelden

My book review of Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner, is now online first at The English Historical Review. I’m happy to send a copy if you can’t access this, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Agamben, Bachelard, Bloch, de la Durantaye, Wahl, Febvre, Braudel

Posted on July 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Books bought new or second-hand recently, including the recent biography and graphic novel Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant, and some older books. The Agamben books are for teaching next academic year – Where are we now? collects his pandemic writings, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Fernand Braudel, Gaston Bachelard, Giorgio Agamben, Jean Wahl, Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch | 1 Comment

Foucault’s Visit to McGill University, and his meetings with Quebec separatists – Stuart Elden and Marcelo Hoffman on the Verso blog

Posted on July 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman and I have written a short piece for the Verso blog about Foucault’s 1971 visit to Montreal. This was Foucault’s first time in Canada, where he gave three lectures on Nietzsche at McGill University and one on Sade at the … Continue reading →

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Some of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

Posted on July 2, 2026 by stuartelden

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026). Update 2 August 2026: my own … Continue reading →

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Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late – Verso, June 2026

Posted on July 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late – Verso, June 2026 It’s not enough to ask what the technology does – we must understand who it’s doing it for and … Continue reading →

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Eighteen months of ‘Sunday Histories’

Posted on July 1, 2026 by stuartelden

I posted a short piece to this site every Sunday through 2025, and am now half-way through 2026. I don’t seem to be running out of ideas, usually with a few in progress at any one time, though some have … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Porshnev, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Giorgio Agamben, Lucien Gerschel, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Umberto Eco, Vladimir Nabokov | 1 Comment