Category Archives: Emile Benveniste

Some bibliographical questions about Roland Barthes [with some answers]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Some bibliographical questions about Roland Barthes. Any answers much appreciated – and with the first three will hopefully interesting to others; the final one is more a remark (or, as the cliché goes, more of a comment than a question). … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Ludwig Binswanger, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault | 1 Comment

Indo-European Thought project update 5: Reading Saussure

Posted on August 25, 2022 by stuartelden

With the proofs and index of The Archaeology of Foucault complete, the next thing will hopefully be receiving an advance copy toward the end of the year. The new edition of Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna is now in production with HAU books, and should be out … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Detienne, Benveniste, Olender, Dumézil, Rampling, Katz

Posted on August 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books for the Indo-European thought project, along with Jennifer M. Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700, in recompense for review work, and Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine, which I … Continue reading →

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Books received – Macherey, Kurlander, Vuillerod, Kristeva, Vernant, Benveniste, Trubetzkoy, Dumézil

Posted on February 8, 2022 by stuartelden

A mix of second-hand books, mostly for the new project on Indo-European thought in France, along with a copy of Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, La naissance de l’anti-hégélianisme: Louis Althusser et Michel Foucault, lecteurs de Hegel, and another volume of the Théorie series, Pierre Macherey, … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Dumézil, Julia Kristeva, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France – the next major project

Posted on December 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Although the manuscript on Foucault in the 1960s is not complete, the end is in sight, and I hope to have most of it done by early 2022. That book will complete my four-volume intellectual history of Foucault’s entire career. … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Julia Kristeva, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Books received – Kristeva, Lacan, Cahiers pour l’analyse, Benveniste

Posted on December 6, 2021 by stuartelden

All bought second-hand, including the issue of Cahiers pour l’analyse with the questions to Foucault and his reply.

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault | Leave a comment

Books received – Benveniste, Althusser, Eliade, Heidegger, Nail, Derrida, Miller, Dumézil

Posted on November 24, 2021 by stuartelden

Mostly bought second-hand, but also Thomas Nail, Theory of the Object and Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity, both sent by the publishers, and the most recent of Derrida’s seminars and Heidegger’s notebooks.

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade | 1 Comment

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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