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Hannah Arendt, David Farrell Krell and the early English translations of Heidegger

Posted on March 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Some years ago, when I was working on Heidegger, I read David Farrell Krell’s “Work Sessions with Martin Heidegger” essay. These were sessions in which Krell discussed some of Heidegger’s vocabulary and worked with him on possible English renderings, as … Continue reading →

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John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook; Hold Everything Dear; Permanent Red – reissues from Verso

Posted on March 15, 2025 by stuartelden

John Berger, reissues from Verso Bento’s Sketchbook A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his … Continue reading →

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Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 and New Books network discussion with Roberto Mazza

Posted on March 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is a New Books network discussion with Roberto Mazza – thanks to … Continue reading →

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Sophia Rosenfeld, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life – Princeton University Press, February 2025

Posted on March 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Sophia Rosenfeld, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life – Princeton University Press, February 2025 Update October 2025: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sophia Rosenfeld on the In Theory podcast on the Journal of History of Ideas … Continue reading →

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Living in a New Sattelzeit: An Interview with Enzo Traverso – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on March 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Living in a New Sattelzeit: An Interview with Enzo Traverso – Journal of the History of Ideas blog Enzo Traverso, a leading scholar of modern European history and thought, is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at … Continue reading →

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Theodor W. Adorno, Lectures 1949-1968, trans. Nicholas Walker – Polity, two volumes, February 2025

Posted on March 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Theodor W. Adorno, Lectures 1949-1968, trans. Nicholas Walker – Polity, two volumes, February 2025 Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1: Music, Literature and the Arts When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, “Henri Lefebvre and the Lukács Question”, Progress in Political Economy; Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, Historical Materialism (open access)

Posted on March 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Adam David Morton and I have a short piece at the Progress in Political Economy site – “Henri Lefebvre and the Lukács Question“ It connects to the translation and introduction in Historical Materialism of an interview Lefebvre conducted with Patrick … Continue reading →

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Aux sources de tristes tropiques. Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina Lévi-Strauss (1935-1939), ed. Emmanuel Désveaux et. al. – Éditions de l’EHESS, March 2025

Posted on March 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Aux sources de tristes tropiques. Les carnets de terrain de Claude et Dina Lévi-Strauss (1935-1939), ed. Emmanuel Désveaux et. al. – Éditions de l’EHESS, March 2025 « Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs ». En 1955, c’est par ces … Continue reading →

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Marco Filoni, The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève, trans. David Broder, Northwestern University Press, July 2025

Posted on March 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Marco Filoni, The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève, trans. David Broder, Northwestern University Press, July 2025 Alexandre Kojève is one of the twentieth century’s most seductive and intriguing figures. A product of the Russian merchant bourgeoisie, he became, depending … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 (now open access)

Posted on March 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 Pleased to say that the book is now available as an open-access … Continue reading →

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