Category Archives: Indo-European Thought

“Foucault and Structuralism” – a book chapter for Daniele Lorenzini’s collection The Foucauldian Mind

Posted on April 8, 2024 by stuartelden

I recently wrote a book chapter on “Foucault and Structuralism” for The Foucauldian Mind, edited by my friend and former Warwick colleague Daniele Lorenzini. It’s been an interesting diversion from the other work. Contrary to my usual practice, where I … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Indo-European Thought, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Martin, Specter, Trubetzkoy, Hoffman, Strauss (and Kojève), Lincoln

Posted on March 25, 2024 by stuartelden

A collection of essays on Emile Benveniste; Matthew Specter, Habermas: An Intellectual Biography; Nicolai Trubetzkoy, The Legacy of Genghis Khan and Other Essays on Russia’s Identity; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity; Leo Strauss, On Tyranny, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Emile Benveniste, Indo-European Thought, Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade | 1 Comment

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 18: further work on Benveniste and more archives in Paris

Posted on March 18, 2024 by stuartelden

In the last update on this project, I talked about the Paris archival work I’d done in early February. There were a few loose ends of references when I got back from Paris, most of which I was able to resolve … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Indo-European Thought, Marcel Mauss, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 17: Contextualising Benveniste

Posted on February 12, 2024 by stuartelden

In my chapter on Émile Benveniste from roughly 1934 to 1949, I’ve been finding all sorts of interesting things to explore. Looking for some of Benveniste’s early publications in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris led me to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Indo-European Thought, Marcel Mauss, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Some of my highlights on Progressive Geographies in 2023

Posted on January 1, 2024 by stuartelden

I didn’t publish much this past year – The Archaeology of Foucault has a 2023 date but was officially published in December 2022, and the special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Foucault was completed some time before. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Aurel Stein, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Indo-European Thought, Kostas Axelos, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Stefanos Geroulanos, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Dumézil, Indo-European Thought, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Travel, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Six degrees of T.S. Eliot – the links through Jean de Menasce to Émile Benveniste

Posted on December 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Given how connected he was, I suppose it was only a matter of time before my Indo-European research project led me in the direction of T.S. Eliot. It came in the lead I was following with Jean de Menasce, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Indo-European Thought, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 15: A first trip to the Paris archives since the spring and more archive work in the UK

Posted on November 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m now back at work full time, though very grateful to be free of teaching and administrative duties, and I am feeling much better and more like myself. I was in Paris for two weeks this month, which was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Aurel Stein, Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Indo-European Thought, Marcel Mauss, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 14: returning to work, tracking Benveniste’s teaching, and working with archives including the Aurel Stein collections in London

Posted on October 31, 2023 by stuartelden

I have now been back at work for a few weeks, initially beginning half-time and gradually increasing what I can do. The support I have had from my department for a long period off work and a phased transition has … Continue reading →

Posted in Aurel Stein, Emile Benveniste, Indo-European Thought, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

On the trail of Aurel Stein – working in archives for the Indo-European thought project

Posted on October 27, 2023 by stuartelden

The research for the Indo-European thought project has been difficult to confine to a solely French focus. I knew I wanted to begin what will probably be the first chapter with the story of the Mission Paul Pelliot, an expedition to Chinese … Continue reading →

Posted in Aurel Stein, Emile Benveniste, Indo-European Thought | 3 Comments