Author Archives: stuartelden

Julia Welland, Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism – Edinburgh University Press, March 2026

Posted on November 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Julia Welland, Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism – Edinburgh University Press, March 2026

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Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 – trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Verso, November 2025

Posted on November 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 – trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Verso, November 2025 An elegant new translation of Benjamin’s moving evocation of the experiences of his urban childhood Composed in exile in the 1930s and pub­lished as a whole only after … Continue reading →

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Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025

Posted on November 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025 J’ai mis des années avant d’oser écrire sur Hélène. Elle n’était pas que l’étranglée de la rue d’Ulm. Elle était un mystère, une femme aux multiples identités, une personnalité opaque, hermétique … Continue reading →

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J.D. Sargan, Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography – ARC Humanities Press, October 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on November 19, 2025 by stuartelden

J.D. Sargan, Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography – ARC Humanities Press, October 2025 (print and open access) Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not … Continue reading →

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Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on November 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Kathleen E. Kennedy, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550 – Concordia University Press, Spring 2026

Posted on November 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Kathleen E. Kennedy, Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400–1550 – Concordia University Press, Spring 2026 The overlooked art of late medieval English manuscript illumination—its initials, borders, and non-figurative designs—finally receives its first book-length examination. Far from being mere decoration, … Continue reading →

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Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, and Magdalena Peszko, Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on November 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, and Magdalena Peszko, Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 An illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality

Posted on November 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Some years ago, Philippe Chevallier alerted me to the importance of the 1977 German translation of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as Sexualität und Wahrheit: Der Wille zum Wissen. This text included a brief preface by Foucault … Continue reading →

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Stephan Schmid & Hamid Taieb eds., A Philosophical History of the Concept – Cambridge University Press, March 2026

Posted on November 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Stephan Schmid & Hamid Taieb eds., A Philosophical History of the Concept – Cambridge University Press, March 2026 The concept of concept plays a central role in philosophy, serving both as a subject of study in disciplines such as logic, epistemology, … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 38 published, including a theme section on Foucault and Nietzsche, and a ‘Buffalo dossier’ (all open access)

Posted on November 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 38 is now published There are essays by Johanna Oksala and Philipp Kender, and a special section on Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche, with pieces by Orazio Irrera, Federico Testa, Emmanuel Salanskis, Daniele Lorenzini and Frédéric Porcher. This issue … Continue reading →

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