Category Archives: David Harvey

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 30 – archive work in Paris, Bern and Cambridge, MA, and Benveniste’s library

Posted on November 12, 2025 by stuartelden

The formal end of the Leverhulme major research fellowship for the Indo-European thought project was at the end of September, but I have a no-cost extension until the end of January. This is invaluable, and is effectively to extend the grant for … Continue reading →

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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift – reposted for the 90th anniversary of Said’s birth

Posted on November 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Edward Said was born 90 years ago today – one day after David Harvey. Here’s a piece on Said I wrote earlier this year about his early career – The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift Given all his … Continue reading →

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David Harvey and Paris: a tribute for his 90th birthday

Posted on October 31, 2025 by stuartelden

In a retrospective of his long career, first published in 2021, David Harvey made the following claim: I have written quite a few books over the course of my academic career, beginning with Explanation in Geography (Harvey, 1969) and most recently Marx, Capital … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works – Verso, February 2026

Posted on October 14, 2025 by stuartelden

David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works – Verso, February 2026 The world’s leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx’s masterwork For decades, David Harvey … Continue reading →

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Books received – Canguilhem, Jerrems, Hayter and Harvey, Leary-Owhin

Posted on October 7, 2025 by stuartelden

The final volume of Georges Canguilhem, Oeuvres complètes, Ari Jerrems, The Spatial Limits of Political Community, Teresa Hayter and David Harvey, The Factory and the City: The Story of the Cowley Automobile Workers in Oxford and Michael Edema Leary-Ohwin, Exploring … Continue reading →

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David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Posted on October 3, 2025 by stuartelden

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series  Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson‘s ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.  This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth birthday, we’re publishing a series of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Febvre, Hiltebeitel, Comaroff, Kantorowicz, Glyph 7, Gadoffre, Eliade & Couliano, Harvey

Posted on September 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Books received – mostly bought second-hand, but also Joshua Comaroff, Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore, sent by University of Minnesota Press, and Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, edited by Robert E. Lerner, … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, “Gramsci and his friend ‘S'”

Posted on April 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, “Gramsci and his friend ‘S’“ A post exploring the generational links between Merrifield, David Harvey, Piero Sraffa and Antonio Gramsci. I was in New York recently, where I once lived, some twenty-years back, there to visit my old … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

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David Harvey on capital, theory, and becoming a Marxist – video interview with Sebastian Budgen

Posted on May 11, 2023 by stuartelden

For fifty years David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars. In addition, his work on the history and geography of capitalist development has transformed our understanding of neoliberalism and the spread … Continue reading →

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