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Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School, trans. Fabio Gironi, Brill, July 2025

Posted on February 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Giacomo Clemente, Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction: The Scholastic Apparatus in Louis Althusser and the Althusserian School, trans. Fabio Gironi, Brill, July 2025 Knowledge, Ideology, Reproduction is the first book-length examination of the theses developed by Louis Althusser and his collaborators on the … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question” – forthcoming in Historical Materialism

Posted on February 18, 2025 by stuartelden

This has taken an age to reach this stage, but we now have proofs for Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, forthcoming in Historical Materialism. … Continue reading →

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Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life – Verso, September 2024

Posted on February 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life – Verso, September 2024 What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation. When … Continue reading →

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Ernst Kantorowicz and the California Loyalty Oath

Posted on February 16, 2025 by stuartelden

In 1950, the medieval historian Ernst Kantorowicz privately published, at his own expense, a short book entitled The Fundamental Issue. It cost him $425 – perhaps about $5000 today. It concerned a loyalty oath at the University of California, first proposed … Continue reading →

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Interview with James Bernauer about Michel Foucault (open access)

Posted on February 15, 2025 by stuartelden

“Interview with James Bernauer”, Agustín Colombo and Bernales Odino Martín, Dorsal: Revista de estudios Foucaultianos, 2025 (open access pdf) An interesting interview with James Bernauer about attending Foucault’s lectures, meeting him, organising a meeting with theologians, and Foucault’s impact on his … Continue reading →

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Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Unmaking Botany: Science & Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines – Duke University Press, April 2025

Posted on February 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Unmaking Botany: Science & Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines – Duke University Press, April 2025 The Introduction is available open access here. In Anglo-European botany, it is customary to think of the vernacular as that which … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 26: Benveniste’s late publications; Sunday Histories; beginning archival work in the United States

Posted on February 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Since the last update in December, I’ve been making some good progress on this project. The focus has mainly been on Benveniste’s work in the 1960s. But, as ever, I’ve found myself backtracking to earlier parts of his career and seeing some potentially … Continue reading →

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Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on February 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti – Journal of the History of Ideas blog – Part I and Part II In this interview, primary editors Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter speak with … Continue reading →

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Johanna Vuorelma, Irony in International Politics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024

Posted on February 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Johanna Vuorelma, Irony in International Politics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 Examines the use of ironic language among political leaders in international politics. Irony in International Politics investigates ironic language in international politics, focusing on how political leaders use irony … Continue reading →

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Sam Halvorsen (ed.), Latin American Geographies – Routledge, March 2025

Posted on February 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Sam Halvorsen (ed.), Latin American Geographies – Routledge, March 2025 Latin American Geographies introduces student readers to cutting-edge scholarship on a range of topics from Indigenous geographies to sustainable development and dependency theory. The book is written primarily by a Latin … Continue reading →

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