Author Archives: stuartelden

The Structure of Hegel’s Logic – in visual form

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

An interactive visualisation of the structure of Hegel’s Logic. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for the link.

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Carlo Natali, Aristotle: His Life and School reviewed at NDPR

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Carlo Natali, Aristotle: His Life and School, D. S. Hutchinson (ed.), Princeton University Press, 2013, reviewed by Michael J. Griffin at NDPR.

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Philippe Theophanidis on Foucault and the Problem of War

Posted on January 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Some useful bibliographical pointers to places where Foucault discusses the question of war from Philippe Theophanidis, beginning from this 1981 quotation. Therefore, if you like, I never stop getting into the issue of law and rights without taking it as a … Continue reading →

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“Interview with Stuart Elden” at Groundwork

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Another interview with me, conducted by Jordan Skinner, has been published at the Groundwork site – a blog run by past and present students of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. It ranges widely across … Continue reading →

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A review of Punk Sociology

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on This Sociological Life:
Sociology in the Anglophone world has been in the doldrums for some time. Since the heady days of poststructuralism and postmodernism, until very recently few advances had been made in theory or method. British…

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Thompson and Zizek (ed.) The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting looking new collection just out with Duke University Press. The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The “speculative materialism” that he first … Continue reading →

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London’s waterways mapped – and sound clips

Posted on January 29, 2014 by stuartelden

London’s waterways mapped – the site also has sound clips of site recordings at each location. Thanks to several people who shared this on Facebook.  

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The ever-increasing deluge of bad and useless books (Schopenhauer)

Posted on January 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Literary journals should be a dam against the unconscionable scribbling of the age, and the ever-increasing deluge of bad and useless books. Their judgments should be uncorrupted, just and rigorous; and every piece of bad work…

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Towards a new geophilosophy, book forum on Ben Woodard’s “On an Ungrounded Earth”

Posted on January 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Review forum on Ben Woodward’s On an Ungrounded Earth at the Society and Space open site.

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Discipline, Punish, Examine and Produce: Foucault’s La société punitive – Stuart Elden @berfrois

Posted on January 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. My review of Foucault’s La société punitive has now been published at Berfrois.

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