Category Archives: Georges Canguilhem

Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025

Posted on March 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Annagiulia Canesso, Il governo del normale: Canguilhem e il pensiero sociologico francese – Meltemi, 2025 Il volume affronta la concezione del normale e del patologico nel pensiero sociologico francese, in particolare in Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim e Maurice Halbwachs, attraverso … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem et l’écologie – 3-5 December 2024, Université Paris 8

Posted on November 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Georges Canguilhem et l’écologie – 3-5 December 2024, Université Paris 8

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‘Homage to the Hommage à Jean Hyppolite’ – Philosophy, Politics and Critique Vol 1 No 3 theme section

Posted on November 1, 2024 by stuartelden

‘Homage to the Hommage à Jean Hyppolite’ – Philosophy, Politics and Critique Vol 1 No 3 theme section Introduction and three essays – all require subscription, unfortunately: Joe Hughes, Introduction Christopher O’Neill, Error, Truth and Anxiety against Death: Reading Georges Canguilhem’s … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 24: Emile Benveniste’s archives of teaching and publishing, the Festschrift, and the Alexandre Koyré side-project

Posted on October 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update in September, I’ve continued working on the chapter of this project which looks at Benveniste and Dumézil’s parallel teaching careers at the Collège de France, through the 1950s and 1960s. This is the planned topic of an online Social … Continue reading →

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“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem”, audio recording of my talk to the workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences

Posted on September 30, 2024 by stuartelden

“Alexandre Koyré and Georges Canguilhem” – audio recording of my talk to workshop ‘On Concrete Human Problems’: Georges Canguilhem on Medicine and the Human Sciences, University of Bristol, 26 September 2024 Thanks to Federico Testa and Pierre-Olivier Méthot for the … Continue reading →

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Canguilhem-Koyré-Gottmann

Posted on September 22, 2024 by stuartelden

Most of my recent trip to Paris was for the Indo-European project, but I also did a little work on Alexandre Koyré, which is becoming something of a side project (see the posts Koyré in Cairo, Koyré and a Network … Continue reading →

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Koyré in Cairo

Posted on September 20, 2024 by stuartelden

Update May 2025: A revised and expanded version of this post is here, as part of the ‘Sunday Histories’ series. There are many things I find interesting in the life and work of Alexandre Koyré, and I’ve already published on … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 23: Emile Benveniste and Georges Dumézil at the Collège de France, and an article on Alexandre Koyré

Posted on September 9, 2024 by stuartelden

The chapter I’m currently working on for the Mapping Indo-European Thought project is a study of the two decades Benveniste and Dumézil were teaching in parallel at the Collège de France. I’ve been concentrating on Dumézil so far, but I plan to … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome VI : Écrits philosophiques complémentaires, conférences publiques, lettres choisies – Vrin, November 2024

Posted on September 2, 2024 by stuartelden
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Stuart Elden, “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, online first in History of European Ideas (open access)

Posted on August 21, 2024 by stuartelden

My article “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, is now available online first in History of European Ideas, and it’s open access. This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in … Continue reading →

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