Author Archives: stuartelden

Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian – Harvard University Press, August 2026

Posted on August 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian – Harvard University Press, August 2026 Interview about writing the book here. Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth century. He published … Continue reading →

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Iselin Németh Winther and Andreas Østhagen, An Introduction to Arctic Governance and Geopolitics – Elgar, 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on August 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Iselin Németh Winther and Andreas Østhagen, An Introduction to Arctic Governance and Geopolitics – Elgar, 2026 (print and open access) This timely book provides a foundational overview of the governance and geopolitics of the Arctic, an area which has moved from … Continue reading →

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The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’

Posted on August 2, 2026 by stuartelden

A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “If I ever go missing, I want Stuart leading the … Continue reading →

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Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography – Reaktion, July 2025

Posted on August 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Steven Connor, Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography – Reaktion, July 2025 A complete portrait of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, who plumbed both science and imagination. This is the first English biography of Gaston Bachelard, a philosopher who bridged the worlds … Continue reading →

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Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew eds. Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline after Ron Johnston – LSE Press/RGS-IBG Book series, August 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on August 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew eds. Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline after Ron Johnston – LSE Press/RGS-IBG Book series, August 2026 Professor Ron Johnston OBE, FAcSS, FBA was one of the most celebrated geographers of his … Continue reading →

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Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026

Posted on July 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Daniele Lorenzini ed. The Foucauldian Mind – Routledge, July 2026 Now published – a major, and very expensive, reference work, though the e-book is less. I say a bit about my chapter, on Foucault and structuralism, here.

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Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers eds. How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought – Routledge, July 2026

Posted on July 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers eds. How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought – Routledge, July 2026 This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Stanford University Press, August 2026

Posted on July 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – trans. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley, Stanford University Press, August 2026 Thus Spoke Zarathustra stands alone among Nietzsche’s published works as a poetic and narrative rendering of his most sophisticated ideas through the medium of … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Lenger, The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism – trans. Daniel Steuer, Polity, June 2026

Posted on July 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Friedrich Lenger, The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism – trans. Daniel Steuer, Polity, June 2026 Over the last 500 years, capitalism has produced a world that is highly interdependent and at the same time highly asymmetrical. … Continue reading →

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Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen or, my Life in Theory – Penguin, July 2025

Posted on July 29, 2026 by stuartelden

Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen or, my Life in Theory – Penguin, July 2025 Review in The New York Times; feature in The New Yorker (requires subscription). Thanks to dmf and Alin Constantin for the alert. Update: there is also a … Continue reading →

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