Category Archives: Claude Lévi-Strauss

Indo-European thought project update 8: working on Barthes, Lévi-Strauss and the Mission Paul Pelliot

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project I’ve not done quite what I intended. I had thought I’d begin working systematically through Georges Dumézil’s works in a chronological way, filling in much detail and some gaps in my previous reading. Instead I went down … Continue reading →

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Books received – Blanchot, Lévi-Strauss, Hollier, Jackson, Barthes

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books bought for the Indo-European thought project, but also Mark Laurence Jackson, Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault: The Recluse of Architecture, in recompense for review work.

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Leroi-Gourhan, Person, Loyer, Soulier, Derrida

Posted on November 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Mainly bought new and second-hand in Paris, but also A. Person, Directorship: Searching for Politics’ Copernican Moment, sent to me anonymously by the author.

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Indo-European thought project update 7: Working on Dumézil’s teaching, a few research resources, and some archival work in Paris

Posted on November 14, 2022 by stuartelden

I’ve made some progress with the Indo-European project over the past few weeks. Not as much as I’d hoped, and it feels a bit unsystematic at this point, but early work is often like that. This has included a couple … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eliade, Benveniste, Charachidzé, Balibar, Godelier

Posted on May 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books for the Indo-European thought project, along with Étienne Balibar, Cosmopolitique, the third volume in his Écrits series, and Maurice Godelier’s study of Lévi-Strauss (available in English from Verso, translated by Nora Scott), both bought in Paris.

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My favourite academic books of 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated … Continue reading →

Posted in Achille Mbembe, Antonio Gramsci, Arlette Farge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Jacques Derrida, Donner le temps II – Seuil, April 2021

Posted on May 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Donner le temps II – Seuil, April 2021 « Donner, est-ce possible ? » C’est la question que pose Jacques Derrida dans Donner le temps. 1. La fausse monnaie (1991). Un don ne peut jamais s’annoncer comme tel. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eliade, Bratton, Lacan, Jacobsen & Beer, Benveniste, Backès-Clément, Deleuze, Kristeva, Witmore

Posted on April 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Several bought second-hand, along with Benjamin Bratton, The Revenge of the Real: Post-Pandemic Politics sent by Verso; Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past, sent by … Continue reading →

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Books received – Edelstein, Geroulanos & Wheatley, Balzac, Lévi-Strauss, Lichnerowicz et. al., Mallory & Adams, Derrida

Posted on March 5, 2021 by stuartelden

A mix of recently received books – the new translations of Balzac’s Lost Souls and Derrida’s Clang from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for review work, and Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos & Natascha Wheatley (eds.), Power and Time: Temporalities … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 5: Proofs of The Early Foucault, connected work on dynasties, Canguilhem, Dumézil and Hyppolite

Posted on February 23, 2021 by stuartelden

It’s been a while since the last update, and I’d hoped that the Christmas break, a slightly lighter teaching load in term 2 and a reading week would see me make a bit more progress on this manuscript. I haven’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Dumézil, Jean Hyppolite, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault | 1 Comment