Author Archives: stuartelden

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 17: Contextualising Benveniste

Posted on February 12, 2024 by stuartelden

In my chapter on Émile Benveniste from roughly 1934 to 1949, I’ve been finding all sorts of interesting things to explore. Looking for some of Benveniste’s early publications in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris led me to do … Continue reading →

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Julia Caterina Hartley, Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France – I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, December 2023

Posted on February 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Julia Caterina Hartley, Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France – I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, December 2023 New translations of Persian literature into French, the invention of the Aryan myth, increased travel between France and Iran, and the … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present – Verso, May 2024 and Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson’s Seminar on Aesthetic Theory, ed. Octavian Esanu – Repeater, 2024

Posted on February 10, 2024 by stuartelden

As if the book The Years of Theory I posted about earlier this week wasn’t enough, two more works by Fredric Jameson this year… Inventions of A Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalisation, Verso, May 2024 [updated to … Continue reading →

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Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Ana Antić at Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on February 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Ana Antić Ana Antić is a professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the history of modern Europe and its global connections, history … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024

Posted on February 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie – Vrin, February 2024 Le 11 juin 1949, Foucault soutient en Sorbonne son mémoire de diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie … Continue reading →

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Youjin B. Chung, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures – Cornell University Press, 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Youjin B. Chung, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures – Cornell University Press, 2024 Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert … Continue reading →

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Antipode virtual issue – “Antonio Negri and Antipode”

Posted on February 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Antipode virtual issue – “Antonio Negri and Antipode” Joel Wainwright introduces a selection of papers in tribute to Negri, free to download for a limited time.

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Paul Allen Miller, Theory does not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric – Anthem, May 2024

Posted on February 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Paul Allen Miller, Theory does not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric – Anthem, May 2024 This book is a wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, … Continue reading →

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Jamie Draper and David Owen (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Posted on February 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Jamie Draper and David Owen (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement – Oxford University Press, March 2024 The situation of internally displaced persons has been a matter of international concern – and legal debate – since at least the … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. Séminaire (1991-1992) – Seuil, February 2024

Posted on February 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. Séminaire (1991-1992) – Seuil, February 2024 «Le secret, dit-on, c’est ce qui ne se dit pas » : c’est sur cette phrase que s’ouvre le séminaire Répondre – du secret, le tout premier de la série … Continue reading →

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