Author Archives: stuartelden

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, organised by Gilbert Gadoffre, André Lichnerowicz and François Perroux, and attended by Suzanne Bachelard, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, André Martinet, Jacques Monod, Clémence Ramnoux, Michel Serres, Gilbert Simondon and René Thom

Posted on March 1, 2026 by stuartelden

An interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism was held in France in September 1970. Attended by a wide range of speakers, it was an interesting moment in the French reception of this trend in ‘French theory’. Back in October 2022 I posted a … Continue reading →

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Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory – trans. Andrew Brown, Polity, July 2026

Posted on February 28, 2026 by stuartelden

Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory – trans. Andrew Brown, Polity, July 2026 Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Jean-François Lyotard, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière: these were among the luminaries of … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Campbell, Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe – Oxford University Press, August 2024

Posted on February 28, 2026 by stuartelden

Elizabeth Campbell, Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe – Oxford University Press, August 2024 I’m late in noticing this, but I’ve just read her previous book, Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy (Stanford University … Continue reading →

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Fay Bound-Alberti, The Face: A Cultural History – Allen Lane, February 2026

Posted on February 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Fay Bound-Alberti, The Face: A Cultural History – Allen Lane, February 2026 What’s in a face? The face is the only part of the body where all the senses come together and, over the course of human history, has come … Continue reading →

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Peter C. Grace, The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA – Georgetown University Press, January 2026

Posted on February 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Peter C. Grace, The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA – Georgetown University Press, January 2026 The untold story of how America’s brightest academic minds revolutionized intelligence analysis at the CIA In the early days of … Continue reading →

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Martin Heidegger, Being and Time: An Annotated Translation – trans. Cyril Welch, Yale University Press, February 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 26, 2026 by stuartelden

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time: An Annotated Translation – trans. Cyril Welch, Yale University Press, February 2026 New Books discussion with Stephen Dozeman – thanks to dmf for the link A new, more accessible translation of one of the most important … Continue reading →

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Luisa T Schneider, Robbert Dillema, and Paola Rebughini eds. Agency Beyond Confinement Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World – Routledge, March 2026

Posted on February 26, 2026 by stuartelden

Luisa T Schneider, Robbert Dillema, and Paola Rebughini eds. Agency Beyond Confinement Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World – Routledge, March 2026 What does it mean to be confined and what forms of life, resistance, … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought research resources updated – Benveniste, Saussure, Dumézil

Posted on February 25, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the list of English translations of Émile Benveniste’s work on this site to include a couple of articles. I’ve not shared many research resources from my Indo-European thought project, but there is a list of Ferdinand de Saussure’s notes … Continue reading →

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Christopher Cusack, Bridget English and Matthew L. Reznicek eds. The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature – Liverpool University Press, February 2026

Posted on February 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Christopher Cusack, Bridget English and Matthew L. Reznicek eds. The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature – Liverpool University Press, February 2026 From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s talking corpses and the unburied … Continue reading →

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Pierre-Olivier Dittmar, L’invention de l’animal: Essai d’anthropologie médiévale – Gallimard, March 2026

Posted on February 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Pierre-Olivier Dittmar, L’invention de l’animal: Essai d’anthropologie médiévale – Gallimard, March 2026 Il n’y avait pas d’animal au Moyen Âge. Des cochons et des oiseaux, des bœufs et des belettes, des lapins et des ours, des loups et des abeilles, … Continue reading →

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