Category Archives: Alexandre Koyré

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 25: Benveniste’s teaching, a talk at St Andrews, Tzvetan Todorov, Roman Jakobson, and some archival work in Paris and Oxford

Posted on December 20, 2024 by stuartelden

I’m overdue an update on this project, but while I’ve been working hard, I haven’t felt there has been much to say until now. I’ve also had some further health problems, leading to another shorter stay in hospital and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Roman Jakobson | 3 Comments

Books received – Dumézil, Koyré, Delaporte, Felsch, Febvre, Meillet

Posted on October 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books by dead French men bought recently, and Philipp Felsch’s How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold, translated by Daniel Bowles. The second and third books are translations by Alexandre Koyré, and the top book is a copy … Continue reading →

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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

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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“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

Posted on September 30, 2024 by stuartelden

“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 →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Canguilhem (book), Georges Canguilhem, My Publications, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Canguilhem-Koyré-Gottmann

Posted on September 22, 2024 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Canguilhem (book), Georges Canguilhem, Jean Gottmann, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Koyré in Cairo

Posted on September 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Update May 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. There are many things I find interesting in the life and work of Alexandre Koyré, and I’ve already published on … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Canguilhem, Martin Heidegger, René Descartes, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

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

Posted on September 9, 2024 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Emile Benveniste, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, Roman Jakobson, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Antoine Meillet, Emmanuel Levinas, Gillian Rose, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Michel Foucault, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

Books received – Koyré, Meillet, Benveniste, Canguilhem, Foucault

Posted on August 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Bought new or second-hand for various projects, along with the new collection of previously unpublished material by Foucault, sent by the publisher – Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by Bernard Harcourt.

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Antoine Meillet, Bernard E. Harcourt, Emile Benveniste, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment