Author Archives: stuartelden

Steven Lukes, The Diversity of Morals, Princeton University Press, 2025 and NDPR review

Posted on May 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Steven Lukes, The Diversity of Morals, Princeton University Press, 2025 NDPR review by Jussi Suikkanen When we speak of morals, what are we speaking of? Is morality singular (as many philosophers tend to assume, even if they don’t agree on what it is) … Continue reading →

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David Womersley, Thinking Through Shakespeare – Princeton University Press, March 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on May 6, 2026 by stuartelden

David Womersley, Thinking Through Shakespeare – Princeton University Press, March 2026 New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular because he “is above all … Continue reading →

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Lucien Gerschel bibliography (and other research resources)

Posted on May 5, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve written about Lucien Gerschel in two posts in my ‘Sunday Histories‘ series – Lucien Gerschel, Georges Dumézil, William Shakespeare and the history of Coriolanus and The Tragic Death of Lucien Gerschel and his Posthumous Text on the Finnish Sampo. He was a student … Continue reading →

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Gabriella Soto, Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting – University of Arizona Press, March 2026

Posted on May 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Gabriella Soto, Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting – University of Ariona Press, March 2026 update July 2026 – New Books discussion with Jennifer Rose Najera Border Afterlives begins with the undocumented individuals who die crossing the … Continue reading →

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Mattie Fitch, The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cultures and the Popular Front in France, 1934–1939 – Routledge, December 2025 and New Books discussion with Keith Rathbone

Posted on May 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Mattie Fitch, The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cultures and the Popular Front in France, 1934–1939 – Routledge, December 2025 Very expensive hardback and e-book only at the moment. In the 1930s, activists with France’s Popular Front mobilized … Continue reading →

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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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