Author Archives: stuartelden

The Andrea Rosenthal Memorial Lecture – “Émile Benveniste, the Second World War and the Making of the Vocabulary of Indo-European Institutions”, Brown University, 22 October 2025, 5.30pm

Posted on October 22, 2025 by stuartelden

The Andrea Rosenthal Memorial Lecture – “Émile Benveniste, the Second World War and the Making of the Vocabulary of Indo-European Institutions”, Brown University, 22 October 2025, 5.30pm The Comparative Literature Department cordially invites you to join us for Émile Benveniste, the … Continue reading →

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Aleks Krotoski, The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life – Bodley Head, October 2025

Posted on October 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Aleks Krotoski, The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life – Bodley Head, October 2025 Thanks to Adalbert Saurma for the link. From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone, humanity’s eternal … Continue reading →

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Leonie Ansems de Vries, Politics of Exhaustion: Border Violence and Struggles Over Movement – Bristol University Press, April 2026

Posted on October 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Leonie Ansems de Vries, Politics of Exhaustion: Border Violence and Struggles Over Movement – Bristol University Press, April 2026 This book exposes the strategies that make migrants’ lives unliveable and explores their resistance to this violence. Drawing on years of … Continue reading →

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024; Book launch, University of Bristol 22 October 2025

Posted on October 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Book launch, University of Bristol 22 October 2025 You are warmly invited to a book launch and roundtable discussion with Dr. Federico … Continue reading →

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Laury Sarti, Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756) – Brill, October 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on October 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Laury Sarti, Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756) – Brill, October 2025 (print and open access) This monograph challenges the idea that Roman imperial authority in the West ended in 476. It shows how the Frankish … Continue reading →

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David Glimp, Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance English Literature – Cambridge University Press, September 2025

Posted on October 21, 2025 by stuartelden

David Glimp, Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance English Literature – Cambridge University Press, September 2025

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Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025

Posted on October 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Dumézil and Benoîte Groult: the Académie française and the debate about feminine nouns for professions

Posted on October 19, 2025 by stuartelden

In his dialogues with Didier Eribon, published in 1989, Claude Lévi-Strauss commented on the linguistic work of the Académie française, and especially a campaign to amend the gender terminology of professions. Should, for example, a female politician be referred to … Continue reading →

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Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now – University of Chicago Press, March 2026

Posted on October 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now – University of Chicago Press, March 2026 A powerful exploration of how Hegel’s ideas about freedom can speak to social injustice today. One might be forgiven for feeling that the philosophical tradition, notoriously … Continue reading →

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Yoann Malinge, L’Action dans la philosophie de Jean-Paul Sartre – Classiques Garnier, October 2025

Posted on October 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Yoann Malinge, L’Action dans la philosophie de Jean-Paul Sartre – Classiques Garnier, October 2025 Jean-Paul Sartre développe une philosophie de l’action dans laquelle l’existence humaine et le monde sont liés. Exister, c’est agir. Cependant, l’action peut se heurter à des … Continue reading →

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