Author Archives: stuartelden

Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression, trans. Robert Savage, Harvard University Press, July 2025

Posted on November 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression, trans. Robert Savage, Harvard University Press, July 2025 Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical breakthroughs, and strides toward gender and racial equity, few believe that humanity is on the road of progress. Indeed, many … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 30 – archive work in Paris, Bern and Cambridge, MA, and Benveniste’s library

Posted on November 12, 2025 by stuartelden

The formal end of the Leverhulme major research fellowship for the Indo-European thought project was at the end of September, but I have a no-cost extension until the end of January. This is invaluable, and is effectively to extend the grant for … Continue reading →

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Claude Raffestin (1936–2025) – Juliet Fall tribute, open access articles, and other pieces in English

Posted on November 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The Swiss-French geographer Claude Raffestin died earlier this year. Juliet Fall has a tribute to him here, and Sage have made some articles by or about him available open access until the end of 2025. These articles are mainly from … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Duby, Stratford, Hage, Ramnoux

Posted on November 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The newly published transcription of Foucault’s 1972 course in Buffalo, two autobiographical accounts by Georges Duby, Elaine Stratford’s remarkable book The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair, Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, and the two volumes of … Continue reading →

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Tim Grady, Burying the Enemy. The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars – Yale University Press, March 2025

Posted on November 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Tim Grady, Burying the Enemy. The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars – Yale University Press, March 2025 A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil … Continue reading →

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Joe Gerlach, Spinoza’s Geographical Ethics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on November 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Joe Gerlach, Spinoza’s Geographical Ethics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 (print and open access)

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CFP: XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium – 50 years of The History of Sexuality, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 26-29 May 2026

Posted on November 10, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium – 50 years of The History of Sexuality, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 26-29 May 2026 1. OVERVIEWThe XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium: 50 Years of the History of Sexuality will be held … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Nabokov’s original and unpublished translation of The Discourse of Igor’s Campaign; and Roman Jakobson’s enduring wish to complete his English edition

Posted on November 9, 2025 by stuartelden

In two previous pieces in the ‘Sunday Histories’ series, I have discussed the planned but unrealised collaboration between Vladimir Nabokov and Roman Jakobson on an edition and translation of “The Song of Igor”, an old Russian poem of the 12th century. Jakobson had … Continue reading →

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Lorenzo Castellani, Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini’s Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy – Routledge, October 2025 and New Books interview

Posted on November 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Lorenzo Castellani, Alberto Beneduce: Mussolini’s Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy – Routledge, October 2025 New Books interview with Tim Jones Thanks to dmf for the links. Shame about the prohibitive price. Alberto Beneduce, a prominent banker, policy-maker and … Continue reading →

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Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 and discussions

Posted on November 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 A translation of Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023 I’ve shared the book before, … Continue reading →

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