Category Archives: Louis Althusser

Emile Benveniste’s Second World War 

Posted on May 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Although I have largely put the chapters on Emile Benveniste in my Indo-European thought project aside for the moment, I am still thinking a bit about what remains an unanswered question – what did Benveniste do between the time he was called … Continue reading →

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“Foucault and Structuralism” – a book chapter for Daniele Lorenzini’s collection The Foucauldian Mind

Posted on April 8, 2024 by stuartelden

I recently wrote a book chapter on “Foucault and Structuralism” for The Foucauldian Mind, edited by my friend and former Warwick colleague Daniele Lorenzini. It’s been an interesting diversion from the other work. Contrary to my usual practice, where I … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Canguilhem, Georges Dumézil, Indo-European Thought, Jacques Lacan, Jean Hyppolite, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

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

Posted on March 5, 2024 by stuartelden

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, are an important and much discussed moment in European intellectual history. The lectures were edited and published … Continue reading →

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Books received – Renou, Althusser, Safransky, Zumwalt, Woodard

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the Indo-European project, along with Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, sent by Duke University Press. The Rosemary LévyZumwalt book is the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist … Continue reading →

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Books received – Calvino, Malpas & White, Balibar, Villamizar, González and Astudillo, Saussure, Cheng

Posted on August 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books bought or sent recently – Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field, Étienne Balibar’s Écrits pour Althusser, Carlos Salamanca Villamizar, Gabriela González and Francisco Astudillo (eds.), Estudios sobre la espacialización … Continue reading →

Posted in Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Etienne Balibar, Italo Calvino, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, My Publications, Neil Brenner, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

My favourite academic books of 2022

Posted on December 30, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated them. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Carlo Ginzburg, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Doreen Massey, Edward Said, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Territory | 1 Comment

David I. Backer, Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education – Bloomsbury, July 2022 (print, and open access)

Posted on December 15, 2022 by stuartelden

David I. Backer, Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education – Bloomsbury, July 2022 (print, and open access) Louis Althusser was one of the foremost Marxist philosophers of the 20th century. His thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Leroi-Gourhan, Person, Loyer, Soulier, Derrida

Posted on November 17, 2022 by stuartelden

Mainly bought new and second-hand in Paris, but also A. Person, Directorship: Searching for Politics’ Copernican Moment, sent to me anonymously by the author.

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Louis Althusser, Socialisme idéologique et socialisme scientifique et autres textes – edited by G.M. Goshgarian, PUF, August 2022

Posted on June 13, 2022 by stuartelden

Louis Althusser, Socialisme idéologique et socialisme scientifique et autres textes – edited by G.M. Goshgarian, PUF, August 2022 En 1966, Louis Althusser a 48 ans. Auréolé de l’énorme succès de Pour Marx et de Lire ” Le Capital “, il se … Continue reading →

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A brief history of Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero – on the Verso blog

Posted on March 18, 2022 by stuartelden

At the Verso books blog I have a piece tracing the history of Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero in the 1960s and 1970s From 1965 until 1980, Louis Althusser edited the Théorie series of books, each released by the … Continue reading →

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