Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Posted on March 5, 2024 by stuartelden

A revised and expanded version of this post is here as part of the Sunday histories series. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in the years before the Second World War, … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 17: Contextualising Benveniste

Posted on February 12, 2024 by stuartelden

In my chapter on Émile Benveniste from roughly 1934 to 1949, I’ve been finding all sorts of interesting things to explore. Looking for some of Benveniste’s early publications in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris led me to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Marcel Mauss, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Some of my highlights on Progressive Geographies in 2023

Posted on January 1, 2024 by stuartelden

I didn’t publish much this past year – The Archaeology of Foucault has a 2023 date but was officially published in December 2022, and the special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Foucault was completed some time before. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Aurel Stein, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Stefanos Geroulanos, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Books received – Mauss, Ginzburg, Amin, Lefebvre, Foucault, Jackson, Danielsson

Posted on December 1, 2023 by stuartelden

A mix of recently bought books along with Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance, sent by Polity, and the long-awaited hardback of Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography. I think I’ve mentioned all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ash Amin, Carlo Ginzburg, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault | 2 Comments

Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023 This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre’s work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on … Continue reading →

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Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023

Posted on October 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023 Now in paperback: What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “From the Archive to the Edited Translation: Lefebvre, Foucault, Dumézil”, audio recording from May 2023 workshop

Posted on September 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Technical problems meant that there was unfortunately not a full recording of the Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, held at Senate House, London on 19 May 2023. I did however record my own talk on my … Continue reading →

Posted in Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment

Henri Lefebvre’s 1939 book on Nietzsche and the ‘Liste Otto’ – which books of his were banned?

Posted on July 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Update June 2025: a revised and expanded version of this post is here. About twenty years ago, in an essay on Henri Lefebvre, I said that his book on Nietzsche (1939) was on the prohibited ‘Liste Otto’. These were books … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Understanding Henri Lefebvre | 7 Comments

Books received – Milner, Lévi-Strauss, Lefebvre, Guattari, Saussure, Walters & Tazzioli

Posted on June 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books for the Indo-European thought project, together with the copy of Musset Henri Lefebvre gave to Georges Bataille (more here) and William Walters and Martina Tazzioli (eds.), Handbook on Governmentality, in which I have a chapter on Foucault and … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Felix Guattari, Ferdinand de Saussure, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault | 4 Comments

Henri Lefebvre’s Musset – the copy he gave to Georges Bataille

Posted on June 5, 2023 by stuartelden

I’ve previously mentioned that parts of Georges Bataille’s library are for sale – story here. The catalogue is on sale as a book La bibliothèque de Georges Bataille – and available to download as a pdf here; with the full inventaire here. I decided to … Continue reading →

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