Author Archives: stuartelden

The Murder of Ioan Culianu – Eliade, Anton, Eco, Lincoln and the University of Chicago

Posted on May 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The story sounds like a detective novel or a spy thriller. A professor of the history of religion at the University of Chicago is shot at close range in the third-floor bathroom of Swift Hall in 1991. The killing is … Continue reading →

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Aimé Césaire, Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem, trans. Kate Nash – Polity, February 2025

Posted on May 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Aimé Césaire, Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem, trans. Kate Nash – Polity, February 2025 This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in … Continue reading →

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James D. White, M.N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography – Haymarket, July 2025

Posted on May 9, 2025 by stuartelden

James D. White, M.N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography – Haymarket, July 2025 How did Soviet historians interpret modern Russian history? Focusing on the career of the Soviet historian M.N. Pokrovskii, James D. White examines the evolution of historical … Continue reading →

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Ignacio Mendiola Gonzalo, La Danza de la luciérnagas: Vivir, pasar y morir en la frontera del Bidasoa – Katakrak, 2025

Posted on May 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Ignacio Mendiola Gonzalo, La Danza de la luciérnagas: Vivir, pasar y morir en la frontera del Bidasoa – Katakrak, 2025 En verano de 2018, el Bidasoa se cierra para las personas migrantes. Vuelven el control, la vigilancia, la batida; se … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk, The Terrible Children of Modernity: An Antigenealogical Experiment, trans. Oliver Berghof, intro. Efraín Kristal, Columbia University Press, June 2025

Posted on May 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, The Terrible Children of Modernity: An Antigenealogical Experiment, trans. Oliver Berghof, intro. Efraín Kristal, Columbia University Press, June 2025 Peter Sloterdijk is among the most acclaimed and widely read philosophers of the past half-century. Called “Germany’s most controversial thinker” … Continue reading →

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Kelly Dombroski, Mark Goodwin, Junxi Qian, Andrew Williams, Paul Cloke eds. Human Geography, fourth edition, Routledge, August 2024

Posted on May 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Kelly Dombroski, Mark Goodwin, Junxi Qian, Andrew Williams, Paul Cloke eds. Human Geography, fourth edition, Routledge, August 2024 Introducing Human Geographies is a ‘travel guide’ into the academic subject of human geography and the things that it studies. The coverage of … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57

Posted on May 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57. Michel Foucault’s historical approach is usually understood as moving from archaeology to genealogy, the former describing his work of the 1960s and the latter … Continue reading →

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Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025

Posted on May 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025 I’m sure this will be interesting, but I’m disappointed it’s only 160 pages. This really feels like it needs someone to do a really major treatment. I’ve read the Jeff … 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 5, 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). London Group of Historical Geographers – registration (free, but required 24 … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, and The Song of Igor – other sources for the story of a failed collaboration

Posted on May 4, 2025 by stuartelden

In a previous piece on Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, Marc Szeftel and The Song of Igor, I outlined the story of a planned collaborative edition and English translation of the Slavic epic The Song of Igor. This is a text of disputed … Continue reading →

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