Author Archives: stuartelden

Pierre Nora (1931-2025)

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault News has some of the pieces about the death of Pierre Nora, important editor and historian, and one of the last of his generation.

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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – the resulting publications and the archive of its lectures

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Louis Althusser’s seminars at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) are of course best known for the famous Reading Capital volume, which developed from his 1964-65 seminar. He ran seminars on the young Marx in 1961-62 and Lacan and psychoanalysis in 1963-64. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Mats Andrén, Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea since 1800 – Berghahn, November 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on June 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Mats Andrén, Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea since 1800 – Berghahn, November 2024 (print and open access) Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in … Continue reading →

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Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf: Moments of Becoming – Bloomsbury, May 2025 

Posted on June 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf: Moments of Becoming – Bloomsbury, May 2025  Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her “philosophy”-the “constant idea” that “makes her a writer.” She wrote that this idea had given her … Continue reading →

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Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, eds. Laura Vaughan, John Peponis and Ruth Dalton – UCL Press, April 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on June 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, eds. Laura Vaughan, John Peponis and Ruth Dalton – UCL Press, April 2025 (print and open access) Professor Bill Hillier spent most of his career at The Bartlett, University College London, where he founded … Continue reading →

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Roman Jakobson, Franz Boas, and the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Library

Posted on June 1, 2025 by stuartelden

The support for refugee scholars to come to the United States of America in the 1930s and 1940s is well known. Varian Fry famously helped several hundred European artists and intellectuals to flee Vichy France between 1940 and 1941. The … Continue reading →

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Kasia Szymanska, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy – Princeton University Press, May 2025 and interview at Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on May 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Kasia Szymanska, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy – Princeton University Press, May 2025 In Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next to … Continue reading →

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Andrew Bowie, Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy – Oxford University Press, paperback May 2025

Posted on May 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Andrew Bowie, Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy – Oxford University Press, paperback May 2025 Much of contemporary philosophy, especially in the analytical tradition, regards aesthetics as of lesser significance than epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Yet, in Aesthetic Dimensions … Continue reading →

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique, The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World – Yale University Press, August 2024

Posted on May 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Asheesh Kapur Siddique, The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World – Yale University Press, August 2024 How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British … Continue reading →

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Zakir Paul, Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism – Princeton University Press, August 2024

Posted on May 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Zakir Paul, Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism – Princeton University Press, August 2024 In the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of quantifying, measuring, and evaluating “intelligence,” and using it to … Continue reading →

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