Author Archives: stuartelden

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025

Posted on December 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience. “No man’s … Continue reading →

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Daniel Wortel-London, The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 – University of Chicago Press, July 2025

Posted on December 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Daniel Wortel-London, The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 – University of Chicago Press, July 2025 Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, … Continue reading →

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Michael Behrent review essay of my Foucault books

Posted on December 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Michael Behrent has written a review essay about my Foucault books for Modern Intellectual History. Coincidentally – I didn’t know he was writing this piece – I have a review of his Becoming Foucault forthcoming in Journal of Modern History.

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Hannah Arendt, What Remains: Collected Poems, ed. and trans. Samantha Rose Hill, trans. Genese Grill – Liveright, December 2024

Posted on December 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Hannah Arendt, What Remains: Collected Poems, ed. and trans. Samantha Rose Hill, trans. Genese Grill – Liveright, December 2024 A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English. Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century’s … Continue reading →

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Lieba Faier, The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight against Human Trafficking – Duke University Press, September 2024 (open access)

Posted on December 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Lieba Faier, The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight against Human Trafficking – Duke University Press, September 2024 (open access) In The Banality of Good, Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short … Continue reading →

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Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024

Posted on December 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024 Bornées. Une histoire illustrée de la frontière raconte la frontière franco-suisse en bande dessinée. L’initiative de cette recherche s’enracine dans le contexte très particulier de la pandémie … Continue reading →

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Brian Eno and Bette A, What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory (print and e-book)

Posted on December 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Brian Eno and Bette A, What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory (print and e-book) The e-book is currently available for just £1 WHAT ART DOES examines the function of fictional worlds – such as pop songs, detective novels, soap operas, … Continue reading →

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Open access versions of my articles

Posted on December 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Most of my publications are listed on my Warwick webpage, with links to the publisher pages Warwick’s online repository is WRAP, and my page is here. This has preprints of pieces from 2014 onwards for open access compliance. I keep … Continue reading →

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Journal of the History of Ideas Virtual Issue: Recent Work in French Intellectual History

Posted on December 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Journal of the History of Ideas Virtual Issue: Recent Work in French Intellectual History This virtual issue highlights recent publications in the JHI of relevance to French intellectual history since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The reason for compiling … Continue reading →

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André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott – Hau Books, February 2025

Posted on December 5, 2024 by stuartelden

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott – Hau Books, February 2025 A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translated into English for the first time. André Leroi-Gourhan … Continue reading →

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