Category Archives: Carlo Ginzburg

The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’

Posted on August 2, 2026 by stuartelden

A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “If I ever go missing, I want Stuart leading the … Continue reading →

Posted in Carlo Ginzburg, Sigmund Freud, Sunday Histories, Umberto Eco | 1 Comment

Books received (2) – Bloch, Wolff, Butler, Sloterdijk, Erdur, Klein-Gousseff, Ginzburg

Posted on July 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Two recent editions of texts by Marc Bloch, Étienne Wolff’s Science des monstres, two recent books by Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? and What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology, Peter Sloterdijk’s The Continent without Qualities: Bookmarks in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Étienne Wolff, Carlo Ginzburg, Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Judith Butler, Marc Bloch, Michel Foucault, teaching | 3 Comments

Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi, Puzzles: A Seminar on the ‘Benefit of Christ’ – trans. Thomas Haskell Simpson, Seagull, March 2026

Posted on July 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi, Puzzles: A Seminar on the ‘Benefit of Christ’ – trans. Thomas Haskell Simpson, Seagull, March 2026 I’ve previously shared some of the many tributes to Ginzburg, who died in June. I hadn’t seen that this … Continue reading →

Posted in Carlo Ginzburg, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Some more of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

Posted on July 13, 2026 by stuartelden

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026), some added since I first posted … Continue reading →

Posted in Carlo Ginzburg, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Andrea Brondino, Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands – Bloomsbury, December 2026

Posted on July 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrea Brondino, Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands – Bloomsbury, December 2026 Using the works of prominent Italian authors of both fiction and nonfiction, this book challenges the established … Continue reading →

Posted in Carlo Ginzburg, Umberto Eco, Wu Ming | Leave a comment

Introducing Richard Wilson’s Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – text of a talk at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 27 June 2026

Posted on July 5, 2026 by stuartelden

These are my opening remarks to a roundtable celebrating Richard Wilson’s book Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers: Modern Friends, at an event on Shakespeare and British Inter-war Philosophy (1918-1939) held at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on 27 June 2026. A few lines … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Carl Schmitt, Carlo Ginzburg, Ernst Kantorowicz, Georges Bataille, Hannah Arendt, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Roger Caillois, Sunday Histories, T.S. Eliot, Uncategorized, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Some of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

Posted on July 2, 2026 by stuartelden

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026). Obituary by John Foot in The … Continue reading →

Posted in Carlo Ginzburg, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 19: back to Dumézil, politics, and Benveniste in Persia and Afghanistan

Posted on April 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project, I have begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. This is another fascinating period, partly because of the range of books he published – 14 in 11 … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Carlo Ginzburg, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Georges Dumézil, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (eds.), Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise – De Gruyter, April 2024

Posted on April 28, 2024 by stuartelden

David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (eds.), Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise – De Gruyter, April 2024 Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most … Continue reading →

Posted in Carlo Ginzburg, Quentin Skinnner, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Mauss, Ginzburg, Amin, Lefebvre, Foucault, Jackson, Danielsson

Posted on December 1, 2023 by stuartelden

A mix of recently bought books along with Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance, sent by Polity, and the long-awaited hardback of Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography. I think I’ve mentioned all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ash Amin, Carlo Ginzburg, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault | 2 Comments