Category Archives: Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 24: Emile Benveniste’s archives of teaching and publishing, the Festschrift, and the Alexandre Koyré side-project

Posted on October 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update in September, I’ve continued working on the chapter of this project which looks at Benveniste and Dumézil’s parallel teaching careers at the Collège de France, through the 1950s and 1960s. This is the planned topic of an online Social … Continue reading →

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Books received – Koyré, Meillet, Rose, Barry, Moyn

Posted on September 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently bought second-hand books, including Gillian Rose’s The Broken Middle, James Barry, Measures of Science, and Samuel Moyn, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics. Top of the pile is a first edition of Alexandre Koyré’s … Continue reading →

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Working on the proofs of the critical edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna – forthcoming in December 2024 with HAU books

Posted on August 27, 2024 by stuartelden

It has taken a long time to get to this stage, but I’m now working on the proofs of the critical edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty – forthcoming in December 2024 with … Continue reading →

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Books received – The Anti-Security Collective, Barthes, de Beistegui, Duchesne-Guillemin, Nabokov, JHI, Barua, Dumézil

Posted on August 27, 2024 by stuartelden

A pile of recently bought or sent books including The Anti-Security Collective, The Security Abolition Manifesto, Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Zoroastre, Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of The Song of Igor’s Campaign, the most recent issue of the … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 22: finishing a draft of a chapter on Dumézil between 1938 and 1949; continuing work on Benveniste’s archive; and an article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Posted on July 31, 2024 by stuartelden

July has been a steady month of progress on this project. I’d hoped to complete the chapter on Georges Dumézil’s work between 1938 and 1949 well before now, but it continued into this month too. It is another very long … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 20: writing about Dumézil and Benveniste’s archives

Posted on May 31, 2024 by stuartelden

In the previous update on the research for this project, I said I had begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. That has also been the main focus on this last month too, trying … Continue reading →

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Books received – Mendieta, Geroulanos, Meillet, Dumézil, and Paxton, Carpet & Paulhan

Posted on May 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Two books by friends – Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory and Eduardo Mendieta, The Philosophical Animal, the reprint edition of Antoine Meillet’s Linguistique historique et linguistique générale, a hard-to-find copy of Georges Dumézil’s Aspects de la fonction guerrière chez … Continue reading →

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International Dunhuang Programme new website

Posted on May 13, 2024 by stuartelden

“After three decades of pioneering research, the IDP launches a new and improved website” – British Library Asian and African studies blog The International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) has launched a new website, where you can view over 150,000 Central and … Continue reading →

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“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 →

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