Author Archives: stuartelden

Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall and Jonathan Silver (eds.), Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities – Bristol University Press, May 2023

Posted on May 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Alan Wiig, Kevin Ward, Theresa Enright, Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall and Jonathan Silver (eds.), Infrastructuring Urban Futures: The Politics of Remaking Cities – Bristol University Press, May 2023 Update: the book is available open access here Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited … Continue reading →

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Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times – Yale University Press, August 2023

Posted on May 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times – Yale University Press, August 2023 By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its … Continue reading →

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The end of WordPress-Twitter functionality

Posted on April 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m disappointed to hear that WordPress posts will no longer be able to be shared to Twitter automatically. It’s of course possible to do this manually, but it’s still frustrating for me, as someone who has used this blog for … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eliade, Gavotte, Jorland, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes

Posted on April 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Mostly bought in Paris – second-hand books for the new project: Mircea Eliade, Oceanographie; Pierre Gavotte, La Marquise et moi (which has a preface by Dumézil, and contains many letters to his daughter); Gerard Jorland’s study of Alexandre Koyré; Lévi-Strauss’s … Continue reading →

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Amy Cortvriend, Lucy Easthope, Jenny Edkins and Kandida Purnell (eds.), When this is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic – Policy Press, March 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Amy Cortvriend, Lucy Easthope, Jenny Edkins and Kandida Purnell (eds.), When this is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic – Policy Press, March 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact – a tragic loss of life, changes to established patterns … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 11: Dumézil and Charachidzé’s work on Ubykh; Lévi-Strauss and his archive; Eliade’s correspondence; Koyré’s networks; and continuing work with Dumézil’s archive

Posted on April 28, 2023 by stuartelden

My attempt with this project to keep to a broadly chronological order of working through of Georges Dumézil’s major publications (see last update) took a bit of a detour, as his 1931 book La Langue des Oubykhs led me to follow the thread … Continue reading →

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Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States – University of Chicago Press, November 2023

Posted on April 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States – University of Chicago Press, November 2023 A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Koyré and a network of ideas – some additional reading suggestions

Posted on April 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Thank you to everyone who engaged with yesterday’s post Alexandre Koyré and a network of ideas. A few comments here and on Mastodon, but mostly on Twitter. Despite all its problems, I’ve yet to find anything which can replicate the engagement … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Koyré and a network of ideas

Posted on April 26, 2023 by stuartelden

In several previous projects – on Foucault, Heidegger, Canguilhem, territory – I’ve briefly mentioned the work of Alexandre Koyré. He’s coming up again in the new work in relation to Benveniste, Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson. Koyré introduced Lévi-Strauss to Jakobson … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to the Festschrift? And has anyone written about them?

Posted on April 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Has anyone written about the history of publishing Festschrift ? There doesn’t seem to be an obvious English equivalent term. They are/were books dedicated to an author at the time of a significant birthday or retirement. Books of celebration, homage or tribute, … Continue reading →

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