Category Archives: Books

Foucault books – updated page with links to reviews, resources and talks

Posted on August 29, 2023 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on this blog about my series of Foucault books, The page has book descriptions, links to reviews, the updates I wrote while researching and writing the books and other related materials. Some translations, scans, textual analysis … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault | 1 Comment

Patrick Gamez review of The Early Foucault (Polity, 2021)

Posted on August 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Patrick Gamez has a generous, appreciative and thoughtful review of my 2021 book The Early Foucault in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. It’s in the same issue as my review of Elisabetta Basso’s Young Foucault (here). … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1939 book on Nietzsche and the ‘Liste Otto’ – which books of his were banned?

Posted on July 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Update June 2025: a revised and expanded version of this post is here. About twenty years ago, in an essay on Henri Lefebvre, I said that his book on Nietzsche (1939) was on the prohibited ‘Liste Otto’. These were books … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Understanding Henri Lefebvre | 7 Comments

Saussure’s notes on German legends – cross-references between the different editions of these manuscripts

Posted on June 14, 2023 by stuartelden

I’ve previously discussed reading Ferdinand de Saussure’s work, mainly around the variant texts of his posthumously published Course on General Linguistics, and some of his early work on Indo-European languages. Saussure’s notes on German legends are one of the other major posthumous … Continue reading →

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Books received – Milner, Lévi-Strauss, Lefebvre, Guattari, Saussure, Walters & Tazzioli

Posted on June 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books for the Indo-European thought project, together with the copy of Musset Henri Lefebvre gave to Georges Bataille (more here) and William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality, in which I have a chapter on Foucault and … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Felix Guattari, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault | 4 Comments

“Indo-European Thought in Post-War France“, Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies, 31 May 2023 (video)

Posted on June 1, 2023 by stuartelden

My talk to the Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies was recorded and is available online – “Indo-European Thought in Post-War France“ I begin with two stories – one about the Mission Paul Pelliot and its importance to the early … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

‘Indo-European Thought in Post-War France’, Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies, 31 May 2023, 4pm

Posted on May 31, 2023 by stuartelden

Update: the recording is available here For anyone interested in my new project, I’ll be speaking about some of it in an online seminar today at 4pm: ‘Indo-European Thought in Post-War France’, Warwick Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Mircea Eliade | Leave a comment

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 12: working in some UK archives; Benveniste’s EPHE teaching; some talks on the research

Posted on May 26, 2023 by stuartelden

After the last update a friend contacted me with some valuable information – about an archive which was already on my list of ones to try to visit when in the United States next year, but should certainly now be … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Eric Hobsbawm, Georges Dumézil, Gillian Rose, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940) – an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology

Posted on May 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Update January 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here. One of the problems with my current project on Indo-European thought in France is how male-dominated it is. If you look at a photograph of the Collège … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Urban Nature podcast episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski

Posted on May 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Urban Nature episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski I was pleased to be Gabriel’s guest on the Urban Nature podcast for a discussion of several different aspects of my work – on territory, terrain, Lefebvre, Foucault, Shakespeare and even … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruno Latour, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Shakespearean Territories, terrain, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment