Author Archives: stuartelden

The Other Bataille: An Interview with Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on March 6, 2025 by stuartelden

The Other Bataille: An Interview with Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano On the occasion of the publication of the second volume of Bataille’s Critical Essays, which collects previously untranslated texts by George Bataille, Jared Bly interviewed its editors, Benjamin Noys and Alberto Toscano. … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, History of European Ideas, Vol 51 No 2, 2025, 276-89 (open access)

Posted on March 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France“, History of European Ideas, Vol 51 No 2, 276-89, 2025. This has been online first for a while, but has now appeared in an issue. Available open access. This article discusses … Continue reading →

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The rediscovery of the typescripts of Foucault’s History of Madness and introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault

Posted on March 5, 2025 by stuartelden

This is very interesting – the discovery of typescript versions of Foucault’s History of Madness and introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault – Emmanuel le Doeff, À la découverte des thèses annotées de Michel Foucault (open access, … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism (open access)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. This developed out of the work that went into Henri … Continue reading →

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Martin Mittelmeir, Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory, trans. Shelley Frisch, Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on March 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Martin Mittelmeir, Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory, trans. Shelley Frisch, Yale University Press, November 2024 Discussed at The Virtual Memories show – thanks to dmf for the link In the 1920s, the Gulf of … Continue reading →

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Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025

Posted on March 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025 Il volume affronta la concezione del normale e del patologico nel pensiero sociologico francese, in particolare in Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim e Maurice Halbwachs, attraverso … Continue reading →

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The Friendship between Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré

Posted on March 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Although they both studied in Germany, and were among those who attended Heidegger’s lecture courses in the 1920s, Hannah Arendt and Alexandre Koyré didn’t meet at that time. (Arendt attended lectures in 1924-26 in Marburg; Koyré in 1928-29 in Freiburg.) Their first … Continue reading →

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Ara H. Merjian, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde – Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on March 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Ara H. Merjian, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde – Yale University Press, November 2024 A new history of Futurism and its fraught ideological ambitions, centered on sculptural experimentation As the first comprehensive avant-garde of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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Vera Keller, Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Vera Keller, Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher. Thanks to dmf for the link. How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And … Continue reading →

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Ruth Leys, Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research – University of Chicago Press, December 2024

Posted on February 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Ruth Leys, Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research – University of Chicago Press, December 2024 A history of “priming” research that analyzes the field’s underlying assumptions and experimental protocols to shed new light on a … Continue reading →

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