Author Archives: stuartelden

Journal of the History of Ideas interview – The Concepts that Made Prehistory: An Interview with Stefanos Geroulanos Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Professor of History at New York University. At the center of Geroulanos’s work has been … Continue reading →

Paul Muldoon, The Penitent State: Exposure, Mourning and the Biopolitics of National Healing – Oxford University Press, September 2023 This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are … Continue reading →

Henry Somers-Hall, Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy – Cambridge University Press, paperback April 2024 This book proposes a radical new reading of the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. Henry Somers-Hall argues that the central unifying aspect of works … Continue reading →

event on 10 June on Foucault et le christianisme

British Academy – A manifesto for the Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (short document; free download) The British Academy has today published their manifesto in which we outline three ways the next government can harness the vast potential of the humanities … Continue reading →

Henri Bergson, Freedom: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1904–1905 – edited by Nils F. Schott and Alexandre Lefebvre, translated by Leonard Lawlor, Bloomsbury, May 2024 now published