Category Archives: Edward Said

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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Benjamin P. Davis, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from du Bois to Arendt – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

Posted on July 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Benjamin P. Davis, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from du Bois to Arendt – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025 update October 2025 – now in paperback

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on July 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Edward Said, Emile Benveniste, Erwin Panofsky, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Hyppolite, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

“Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas” – audio recording of talk at Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

Posted on June 18, 2025 by stuartelden

On 16 June 2025 I gave a short talk with the title “Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, to the Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop at the Maison Française, Oxford. The audio recording of my talk … Continue reading →

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Josué V. Harari, the Marquis de Sade, and Michel Foucault’s 1970 lectures in Buffalo

Posted on June 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Josué V. Harari plays a small but important role in the story of Foucault in the United States. A PhD researcher at the University at Buffalo when Foucault visited in the early 1970s, he went on to edit a 1979 volume … Continue reading →

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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift

Posted on May 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s literary journal TriQuarterly was a significant piece on so-called “structuralism”, and the following year’s “Michel … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 28: archives in Princeton, Chicago and final work in New York

Posted on May 20, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve continued my work with archives in the USA over the past several weeks. Some of this has been in relation to the Indo-European Thought project, but I’ve managed to work on some peripheral things too.I had two days in Princeton, … Continue reading →

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025

Posted on May 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 Update June 2025: New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende An exploration of the political thought of one of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett’s 1980 NYU seminar on “Sexuality and Solitude” – some notes on attendance and readings

Posted on March 23, 2025 by stuartelden

The “Sexuality and Solitude” lecture was delivered by Richard Sennett and Michel Foucault to the New York Institute for the Humanities on 20 November 1980 at 5.30pm. It was held in the Tishman Auditorium of Vanderbilt Hall on Washington Square. … Continue reading →

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