Author Archives: stuartelden

Arthur Ghins, The People’s Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

Posted on August 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Arthur Ghins, The People’s Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

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Nathan Schlanger, The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

Posted on August 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Nathan Schlanger, The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan – Cambridge University Press, January 2026; translation of L’Invention de la technologie: Une histoire intellectuelle avec André Leroi-Gourhan – PUF, January 2023 See also this interview with Stefanos … Continue reading →

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Andy Hines ed. University Keywords – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2025

Posted on July 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Andy Hines ed. University Keywords – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2025 How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles. University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original understandings of 27 key terms … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism – trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine’s Press, July 2025

Posted on July 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism – trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine’s Press, July 2025 The previous volume of Alexandre Kojève’s (1902–1968) work published by St. Augustine’s Press, The Concept, Time and Discourse (2019), was the introduction to an unfinished magnum … Continue reading →

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Clare O’Farrell commentaries on interviews in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983

Posted on July 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell is beginning a series of commentaries on the interviews in Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques, 1961-1983, Flammarion/VRIN/INA, 2024. Foucault, Radio Interview 1: The phenomenon of madness Foucault, Radio Interview 2: Madness silenced And for her initial review of the volume as a … Continue reading →

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Anders Stephenson, American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Matters – Verso, July 2025

Posted on July 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Anders Stephenson, American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Matters – Verso, July 2025 A radical reinterpretation of the Cold War by its most iconoclastic historian. What was the cold war? Conventional wisdom makes it coextensive with an epoch stretching … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil’s Mythe et épopée series and its partial English translations – updated

Posted on July 29, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on Georges Dumézil’s Mythe et épopée series and its partial English translations with the page references to the 1977 and 1982 notes translated in The Stakes of the Warrior and The Plight of the Sorcerer. The French has notes to … Continue reading →

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Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World – Princeton University Press, January 2026

Posted on July 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World – Princeton University Press, January 2026 For the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from … Continue reading →

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Hadi Fakhoury ed., New Perspectives on Henry Corbin – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2025

Posted on July 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Hadi Fakhoury ed., New Perspectives on Henry Corbin – Palgrave Macmillan, July 2025 This collection brings together scholars from various fields to explore the work, life, and legacy of Henry Corbin (1903–1978), a towering figure in the modern study of … Continue reading →

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Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – Polity, October 2025

Posted on July 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI – Polity, October 2025 Looking beyond the flurry of rapid changes in artificial intelligence, Silicon Empires uncovers the deep economic forces guiding the expansion of AI. Nick Srnicek offers a clear-eyed … Continue reading →

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