Category Archives: Erwin Panofsky

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 →

Posted in Étienne Wolff, Claude Lévi-Strauss, David Harvey, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Erwin Panofsky’s dog and Ernst Kantorowicz

Posted on September 15, 2025 by stuartelden

In the archives of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, there are some papers relating to Erwin Panofsky, the art historian, collected by his second wife Gerda Panofsky (née Sörgel). I was led there by the question of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernst Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Pierre Bourdieu, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Pierre Bourdieu and Erwin Panofsky: Architecture, Scholasticism and the Concept of Habitus

Posted on September 14, 2025 by stuartelden

In 1967, Pierre Bourdieu translated Erwin Panofsky’s 1951 book Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism into French. The German-born Panofsky is best known for his work in art history, and for developing Aby Warburg’s distinction between iconography and iconology. He was teaching alternate semesters … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Erwin Panofsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Sunday Histories | 5 Comments

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

Books received – Quinn, Stonebridge, Harari, Donato, Anheim & Pasquali, Kojève, Jakobson, Wilson, Fall

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

A pile of mostly recently bought books, including Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History; Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience; Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Boundaries, Erwin Panofsky, Hannah Arendt, Juliet Fall, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Territory | 1 Comment

Fifteen ‘Sunday Histories’ on Progressive Geographies

Posted on April 17, 2025 by stuartelden

There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, David Farrell Krell, Emile Benveniste, Ernst Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Gillian Rose, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Territory, Umberto Eco | Leave a comment

Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: Essai d’archéologie intellectuelle, suivi de leur correspondance inédite – Éditions de Minuit, March 2025

Posted on March 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: Essai d’archéologie intellectuelle, suivi de leur correspondance inédite – Éditions de Minuit, March 2025 Ce livre raconte, à partir d’archives inédites, l’histoire de la rencontre entre deux figures emblématiques des sciences humaines … Continue reading →

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