Author Archives: stuartelden

Christopher R. Rossi, The Arctic Großraum: Geopolitics and the High North – Bloomsbury, September 2025

Posted on August 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Christopher R. Rossi, The Arctic Großraum: Geopolitics and the High North – Bloomsbury, September 2025 How should the Arctic be viewed in the 21st century? In this book, a leading commentator assesses the competing players for the Arctic, looking at … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 29: working on Benveniste’s Vocabulaire, Dumézil’s Bilan and other work

Posted on August 18, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve been back in the UK for a few months, though I continue to work through the archival material I saw in the United States, some of which is in the form of notes, some photos of things, and a … Continue reading →

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Lucien Gerschel, Georges Dumézil, William Shakespeare and the history of Coriolanus 

Posted on August 17, 2025 by stuartelden

One of Georges Dumézil’s most loyal students was Lucien Gerschel. He seems to have begun attending his classes at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1937-38, but certainly was there for the 1938-39 course which became Dumézil’s 1940 book Mitra-Varuna. … Continue reading →

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Isabel K. Köster, Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination – University of Michigan Press, January 2026

Posted on August 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Isabel K. Köster, Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination – University of Michigan Press, January 2026 Stealing from the Gods investigates how authors writing between the first century BCE and second century CE addressed the issue of … Continue reading →

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How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando

Posted on August 15, 2025 by stuartelden

How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando – Journal of the History of Ideas blog with Rose Facchini Anna Ferrando is a researcher in Contemporary History at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the … Continue reading →

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Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories – Oxford University Press, November 2025

Posted on August 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds. Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories – Oxford University Press, November 2025 For the last 30 years, scholars have treated Enlightenment race theory and nineteenth-century German colonialism as two distinct … Continue reading →

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Martin Shuster, Critical Theory: The Basics – Routledge, 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Martin Shuster, Critical Theory: The Basics – Routledge, 2024 New Books discussion with Dave O’Brien

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Todd McGowan, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan – Cambridge University Press, July 2025

Posted on August 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Todd McGowan, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan – Cambridge University Press, July 2025 Update September 2025: New Books discussion with Helena Vissing. Thanks to dmf for this link.

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Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025

Posted on August 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025 Comment s’est constituée, à travers le temps, la conception de … Continue reading →

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Ryan L. Allen, Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945-1975 – University of Chicago Press, January 2026

Posted on August 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Ryan L. Allen, Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945-1975 – University of Chicago Press, January 2026 Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 … Continue reading →

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