Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

No, not that Henri Lefebvre – The Missing Pieces

Posted on September 13, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned this before, but the Henri Lefebvre who wrote Les unités perdues (2004, 2011), translated by David L. Sweet as The Missing Pieces (2014), is not the Henri Lefebvre who wrote The Production of Space and The Critique of Everyday Life, among many other works.  For one thing, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eco, Lefebvre, Mandrou, Moore and Fedorowich, Nerlich, Coletti, Deutsch, Prosperi

Posted on September 8, 2026 by stuartelden

A mix of books bought new or second-hand – Umberto Eco, How to Spot a Fascist; Henri Lefebvre (no, not that Henri Lefebvre), The Missing Pieces; Robert Mandrou, Magistrats et sorciers en France au XVIIe siècle: Une analyse de psychologie historique; … Continue reading →

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Jean de Menasce and Émile Benveniste as translators of T.S. Eliot

Posted on June 14, 2026 by stuartelden

The importance of Jean de Menasce to the life of Émile Benveniste has long been known. A former student of Benveniste in his Iranian courses at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Menasce later taught at the University of Fribourg, … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026

Posted on June 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026 This book explores the Situationist International’s paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that … Continue reading →

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Julia Kristeva’s Dostoyevsky – from Mikhail Bakhtin and Hans Holbein to psychoanalysis, religion and language 

Posted on June 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva often references Fyodor Dostoyevsky in her work. She read him while growing up in Bulgaria, and continued after her move to France. She recalls her initial reading was against her father’s directive. As well as Dostoyevsky’s famous novels, … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités – new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026

Posted on June 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Éléments de rythmanalyse et autres essais sur les temporalités – new edition, Eterotopia, April 2026 Thanks to John Raimo for this link. As far as I can tell, this has the same content as the 2019 edition of … Continue reading →

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Yannis Flytzanis ed. Henri Lefebvre – Space, Philosophy and the Political – Bloomsbury, July 2026

Posted on May 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Yannis Flytzanis ed. Henri Lefebvre – Space, Philosophy and the Political – Bloomsbury, July 2026 A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging … Continue reading →

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Two dedications from Georges Dumézil – to Alfred Ernoux and Luc Estang

Posted on April 8, 2026 by stuartelden

With only rare exceptions, I’ve not tended to buy second-hand books with a view to the edition or dedications. Generally, I’ve been getting hold of copies because of the content, and the relatively few times I’ve looked for a first … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon

Posted on April 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon, describing it as “the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles … Continue reading →

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The Books on Territory I Didn’t Write, and the Related Articles I Did

Posted on March 15, 2026 by stuartelden

At various points over the last twenty-five years or so, I’ve debated writing different books on territory. Many of the articles I’ve written on this topic were early versions of parts of the books I did write on territory, but … Continue reading →

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