Category Archives: Emile Benveniste

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Bought new or second-hand for various projects, along with the new collection of previously unpublished material by Foucault, sent by the publisher – Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by Bernard Harcourt.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

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 22: finishing a draft of a chapter on Dumézil between 1938 and 1949; continuing work on Benveniste’s archive; and an article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Posted on July 31, 2024 by stuartelden

July has been a steady month of progress on this project. I’d hoped to complete the chapter on Georges Dumézil’s work between 1938 and 1949 well before now, but it continued into this month too. It is another very long … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Emile Benveniste, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Rose, Sartre, Koyré, Benveniste, Greimas, Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2024 by stuartelden

The reedition of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work; Sartre’s Literary and Philosophical Essays; the Mélanges collections for Alexandre Koyré and Emile Benveniste; Algirdas Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology; and Foucault’s Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 20: writing about Dumézil and Benveniste’s archives

Posted on May 31, 2024 by stuartelden

In the previous update on the research for this project, I said I had begun work on a chapter on Dumézil’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. That has also been the main focus on this last month too, trying … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Aurel Stein, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Stefanos Geroulanos, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

International Dunhuang Programme new website

Posted on May 13, 2024 by stuartelden

“After three decades of pioneering research, the IDP launches a new and improved website” – British Library Asian and African studies blog The International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) has launched a new website, where you can view over 150,000 Central and … Continue reading →

Posted in Aurel Stein, Emile Benveniste, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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

Books received – Martin, Specter, Trubetzkoy, Hoffman, Strauss (and Kojève), Lincoln

Posted on March 25, 2024 by stuartelden

A collection of essays on Emile Benveniste; Matthew Specter, Habermas: An Intellectual Biography; Nicolai Trubetzkoy, The Legacy of Genghis Khan and Other Essays on Russia’s Identity; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity; Leo Strauss, On Tyranny, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Emile Benveniste, Jürgen Habermas, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade | 1 Comment

Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 18: further work on Benveniste and more archives in Paris

Posted on March 18, 2024 by stuartelden

In the last update on this project, I talked about the Paris archival work I’d done in early February. There were a few loose ends of references when I got back from Paris, most of which I was able to resolve … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Marcel Mauss, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Books received – Binswanger & Warburg, Auffret, Foucault, Dumézil, Benveniste et. al, and Derrida

Posted on March 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently-bought books, mostly in Paris, including Foucault’s very early La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie and the most recently published seminar from Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Ludwig Binswanger, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment