Author Archives: stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism (open access)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. This developed out of the work that went into Henri … Continue reading →

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Martin Mittelmeir, Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory, trans. Shelley Frisch, Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on March 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Martin Mittelmeir, Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory, trans. Shelley Frisch, Yale University Press, November 2024 Discussed at The Virtual Memories show – thanks to dmf for the link In the 1920s, the Gulf of … Continue reading →

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Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025

Posted on March 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025 Il volume affronta la concezione del normale e del patologico nel pensiero sociologico francese, in particolare in Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim e Maurice Halbwachs, attraverso … Continue reading →

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The Friendship between Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré

Posted on March 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Although they both studied in Germany, and were among those who attended Heidegger’s lecture courses in the 1920s, Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré didn’t meet at that time. (Arendt attended lectures in 1924-26 in Marburg; Koyré in 1928-29 in Freiburg.) Their first … Continue reading →

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Ara H. Merjian, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde – Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on March 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Ara H. Merjian, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde – Yale University Press, November 2024 A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation As the first comprehensive avant-garde of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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Vera Keller, Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Vera Keller, Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher. Thanks to dmf for the link. How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And … Continue reading →

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Ruth Leys, Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research – University of Chicago Press, December 2024

Posted on February 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Ruth Leys, Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research – University of Chicago Press, December 2024 A history of “priming” research that analyzes the field’s underlying assumptions and experimental protocols to shed new light on a … Continue reading →

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Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson’s Contributions to Linguistics – audio recording from 1983

Posted on February 26, 2025 by stuartelden

In the NYU archives today, I read the typescript of a lecture given by Edmund Leach about Roman Jakobson at the New York Institute for the Humanities, and wondered if it had been published. One better, the audio recording of … Continue reading →

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Chris Philo, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination – Edinburgh University Press, July 2025

Posted on February 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Chris Philo, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination – Edinburgh University Press, July 2025 I’ll be part of a discussion of the book with Chris Philo and Felicitas Kübler, London Group of Historical Geographers, online 27 May 2025, 5pm. More … Continue reading →

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Gary D. Jaworski, Erving Goffman and the Cold War – Lexington Books, August 2023 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Gary D. Jaworski, Erving Goffman and the Cold War – Lexington Books, August 2023 New Books discussion with Matt Dawson. Thanks to dmf for the link. Erving Goffman and the Cold War presents a provocative new reading of the work of … Continue reading →

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