Category Archives: Books

Spanish and Chinese translations of Foucault’s Last Decade

Pleased to receive copies of the Spanish and Chinese translations of Foucault’s Last Decade La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes, Melusina, September 2004 福柯最后十年, Beijing Publishing Group, July 2024

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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

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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Stuart Elden, La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes – Melusina, September 2004

Stuart Elden, La última década de Foucault, trans. Albert Fuentes, Melusina, September 2004 Pleased to hear that the Spanish translation of Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press, 2016) has just been published. Many thanks to Albert Fuentes for the translation, and … Continue reading

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“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem”, audio recording of my talk to the workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences

“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem” – audio recording of my talk to workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences, University of Bristol, 26 September 2024 Thanks to Federico Testa and Pierre-Olivier Méthot for the … Continue reading

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Canguilhem-Koyré-Gottmann

Most of my recent trip to Paris was for the Indo-European project, but I also did a little work on Alexandre Koyré, which is becoming something of a side project (see the posts Koyré in Cairo, Koyré and a Network … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 23: Emile Benveniste and Georges Dumézil at the Collège de France, and an article on Alexandre Koyré

The chapter I’m currently working on for the Mapping Indo-European Thought project is a study of the two decades Benveniste and Dumézil were teaching in parallel at the Collège de France. I’ve been concentrating on Dumézil so far, but I plan to … Continue reading

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

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

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

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)

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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