Author Archives: stuartelden

Kelly Swartz, Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen – University of Virginia Press, October 2025

Posted on October 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Kelly Swartz, Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen – University of Virginia Press, October 2025 Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century novels are full … Continue reading →

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Peter Frizsche, 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe – Basic Books, September 2025

Posted on October 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Peter Frizsche, 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe – Basic Books, September 2025 Thanks to John Raimo for the link. A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction … Continue reading →

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The Intellectual History of Worker Education: An Interview with Edward Baring – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on October 28, 2025 by stuartelden

The Intellectual History of Worker Education: An Interview with Edward Baring – Journal of the History of Ideas blog Edward Baring is an intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe and the Associate Professor of History and Human Values at Princeton University. … Continue reading →

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Dagmar Herzog, The New Fascist Body – Wirklichkeit, September 2025

Posted on October 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Dagmar Herzog, The New Fascist Body – Wirklichkeit, September 2025 Der neue faschistische Körper, trans. Lisa Jay Jeschke The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gusdorf, Foucault, Wolff, Ellenberger, Ramnoux, Dosse, Mabon

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Books bought new or second-hand – Georges Gusdorf, Le crépuscule des illusions; Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites; Étienne Wolff, Les Changements de sexe; François Ellenberger, Histoire de la géologie 1; Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Duras, Ruyer, Deleuze, Meiches, Negri, Dosse, Samson

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Mostly books from University of Minnesota Press, in recompense for review work, and Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers, sent by University of Chicago Press. The UMP books are Marguerite Duras, Writing; Raymond Ruyer, Neofinalism; Gilles Deleuze, On Painting; Benjamin Meiches, The … Continue reading →

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Joseph Falaky Nagy review of the new edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty (both review and book open access)

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Joseph Falaky Nagy generously reviews the new edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden, from Hau Books in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Both the journal and the … Continue reading →

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Julian Schmid, Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century – Edinburgh University Press, October 2025

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Julian Schmid, Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century – Edinburgh University Press, October 2025 Explores how Hollywood’s superhero genre has shaped US foreign policy and security discourses

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Roman Jakobson’s paper to The First World Conference on Yiddish Studies, 1958: “The Languages of the Diaspora as a Particular Linguistic Problem”

Posted on October 26, 2025 by stuartelden

In an earlier piece in the ‘Sunday Histories’ series, I discussed the work Roman Jakobson did for Franz Boas on the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Library. In his initial time in the United States, as a refugee from … Continue reading →

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Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025)

Posted on October 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025) – via Foucault News

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