Author Archives: stuartelden

Tel Quel goes to China: Sollers, Kristeva, Barthes, Pleynet, Wahl and the Cultural Revolution

Posted on May 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Tel Quel famously went to China in 1974. Tel Quel was an important literary journal founded in 1960, to which many of the major names of ‘French theory’ contributed, including Michel Foucault, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida. The journal was edited by Philippe … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 (all open access)

Posted on May 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 (all open access) Lots of interesting papers and reviews, including “Genealogy as Critical Practice: Toward a Reading of Affective Genealogy” by my former PhD Mostyn Taylor Crockett.

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Stephen C. E. Hopkins, Translating Hell: Vernacular Theology and Apocrypha in the Medieval North Sea – Manchester University Press, May 2026

Posted on May 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Stephen C. E. Hopkins, Translating Hell: Vernacular Theology and Apocrypha in the Medieval North Sea – Manchester University Press, May 2026 In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much … Continue reading →

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Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulić eds. Geography with John Berger: Questions of Space and Practice – Bloomsbury, June 2026

Posted on May 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulić eds. Geography with John Berger: Questions of Space and Practice – Bloomsbury, June 2026 Exploring John Berger’s political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience, Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic critically engage … Continue reading →

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Laurence Hemming and Aaron Turner eds. Heidegger and Parmenides – Bloomsbury, April 2026

Posted on April 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Laurence Hemming and Aaron Turner eds. Heidegger and Parmenides – Bloomsbury, April 2026 This collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heidegger’s quest to bring … Continue reading →

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Felix Berenskötter ed. Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction – Sage, November 2025

Posted on April 29, 2026 by stuartelden

Felix Berenskötter ed. Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction – Sage, November 2025 How can we better understand global issues? And what does it mean to do international relations theory today? Concepts in International Relations offers a fresh and accessible introduction to IR … Continue reading →

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A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy:Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West -Verso, April 2026

Posted on April 28, 2026 by stuartelden

A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy:Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West –Verso, April 2026 The definitive history of a dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory  “Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. … Continue reading →

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Louise Ridden, Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on April 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Louise Ridden, Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026 (print and open access) Studies nonviolence as a way of knowing, doing and being in armed conflict This book takes the emerging … Continue reading →

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The Tragic Death of Lucien Gerschel and his Posthumous Text on the Finnish Sampo

Posted on April 26, 2026 by stuartelden

In a previous piece in this series, I discussed Georges Dumézil’s student and colleague Lucien Gerschel and their discussions of the Roman general Coriolanus. Gerschel had attended lectures by Dumézil at the École Pratique des Hautes Études shortly before the Second World War. … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk, The Continent Without Qualities: Bookmarks in the Book of Europe, trans. Robert Hughes, Cambridge: Polity, 2026

Posted on April 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, The Continent Without Qualities: Bookmarks in the Book of Europe, trans. Robert Hughes, Cambridge: Polity, 2026 Europe has often been the target of criticism: Europe has lost touch with its core values, its leaders are indecisive and its citizens … Continue reading →

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