Category Archives: Books

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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Stuart Elden, “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, online first in History of European Ideas (open access)

Posted on August 21, 2024 by stuartelden

My article “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, is now available online first in History of European Ideas, and it’s open access. This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden and Morteza Hajizadeh – New Books Network discussion of The Birth of Territory

Posted on August 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden and Morteza Hajizadeh – New Books discussion of The Birth of Territory Although I’ve done quite a few interviews for the New Books Network with Dave O’Brien, these were on the Foucault books and Shakespearean Territories. So I … Continue reading →

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New issue of Parrhesia with translation of a short text by Foucault, ‘Message or Noise?’ with a commentary by Chris O’Neill

Posted on August 12, 2024 by stuartelden

The latest issue of Parrhesia is out, with a translation of and commentary on a short text by Foucault. All open access. Foucault and information theory: on “message or noise?” (1966) – Chris O’Neill “Message or noise?” – Michel Foucault, … Continue reading →

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“Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, forthcoming in History of European Ideas; and a talk on Canguilhem and Koyré in Bristol

Posted on August 11, 2024 by stuartelden

In some previous updates on my Indo-European thought project, I’d mentioned doing some research on Alexandre Koyré. In March and May. I said I’d been working on a piece about his unsuccessful attempt to get elected to a chair at … 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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