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Vanessa Grossman, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France – Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Vanessa Grossman, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France – Yale University Press, November 2024 The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France The massive reshaping of French cities that took … Continue reading →

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Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 952 pages! A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution—Jean-Paul Marat. Who better to pen an authoritative biography … Continue reading →

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The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin, ed. Charlie Louth – SUNY Press, October 2025

Posted on May 22, 2025 by stuartelden

The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin, ed. Charlie Louth – SUNY Press, October 2025 The first English translation of Hölderlin’s complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme industriel et socialisme paysan/Industrial Socialism and Peasant Socialism”, Actuel Marx, 2023, eds. Claire Revol and Armelle Lefebvre

Posted on May 22, 2025 by stuartelden

I missed this when published a couple of years ago – a previously unpublished lecture by Henri Lefebvre, taken from his archives, which have been deposited at IMEC and are being catalogued – see the initial notice. Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme … Continue reading →

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The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 – Swedenborg Hall, London, 18-19 June 2025

Posted on May 21, 2025 by stuartelden

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 – Swedenborg Hall, London, 18-19 June 2025 ‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not’ – Rose’s discovery of Silouan the Athonite’s maxim provided the occasion for Love’s Work and guided its weaving … Continue reading →

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Nicholas D. Anderson, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics – Cornell University Press, January 2025 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on May 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Nicholas D. Anderson, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics – Cornell University Press, January 2025 In Inadvertent Expansion, Nicholas D. Anderson investigates a surprisingly common yet overlooked phenomenon in the history of great power politics: territorial expansion that was neither intended … Continue reading →

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Online discussion of Chris Philo’s Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination – 27 May 2025

Posted on May 20, 2025 by stuartelden

A reminder of this event on 27 May 2025, 5.30pm, online – a discussion of Chris Philo’s important new book Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025). Reminder: London Group of Historical Geographers – registration (free, but required … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 28: archives in Princeton, Chicago and final work in New York

Posted on May 20, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve continued my work with archives in the USA over the past several weeks. Some of this has been in relation to the Indo-European Thought project, but I’ve managed to work on some peripheral things too.I had two days in Princeton, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Adorno, Benveniste, Jakobson, Godel

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Three books by Adorno from Verso, and second-hand copies of Émile Benveniste’s Indo-European Language and Society, the first volume of Roman Jakobson’s Selected Writings, and Robert Godel, Les Sources Manuscrites du cours de linguistique générale de F. de Saussure.

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Books received – Robeyns, Billé, Legg, Neocleous, Daviron, Granet, Shapiro, Testa, Carrigan, Pothecary

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Books generously sent to me by publishers, authors or editors. Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism; Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities; Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police; … Continue reading →

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