Category Archives: People

Books received – Agamben, Bachelard, Bloch, de la Durantaye, Wahl, Febvre, Braudel

Posted on July 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Books bought new or second-hand recently, including the recent biography and graphic novel Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant, and some older books. The Agamben books are for teaching next academic year – Where are we now? collects his pandemic writings, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Fernand Braudel, Gaston Bachelard, Giorgio Agamben, Jean Wahl, Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch | 1 Comment

Foucault’s Visit to McGill University, and his meetings with Quebec separatists – Stuart Elden and Marcelo Hoffman on the Verso blog

Posted on July 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Marcelo Hoffman and I have written a short piece for the Verso blog about Foucault’s 1971 visit to Montreal. This was Foucault’s first time in Canada, where he gave three lectures on Nietzsche at McGill University and one on Sade at the … Continue reading →

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Some of the many tributes to Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026)

Posted on July 2, 2026 by stuartelden

There are too many to try to be comprehensive, but here are a few of the tributes and reposts of older material celebrating the life and career of the remarkable historian Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026). Update 2 August 2026: my own … Continue reading →

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Eighteen months of ‘Sunday Histories’

Posted on July 1, 2026 by stuartelden

I posted a short piece to this site every Sunday through 2025, and am now half-way through 2026. I don’t seem to be running out of ideas, usually with a few in progress at any one time, though some have … Continue reading →

Posted in Boris Porshnev, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Giorgio Agamben, Lucien Gerschel, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Umberto Eco, Vladimir Nabokov | 1 Comment

Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally eds. The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory, Duke University Press, July 2026

Posted on June 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally eds. The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory, Duke University Press, July 2026 Introduction available open access Following his death in 2024, Fredric Jameson’s … Continue reading →

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Did Émile Benveniste try to escape to the USA from Lyon in the Second World War?

Posted on June 28, 2026 by stuartelden

As part of my research on Georges Dumézil and Émile Benveniste, I’ve been tracing their quite different experiences in the Second World War. Both lost their teaching positions under Vichy, although for very different reasons – Dumézil because he had once … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Jean de Menasce, Jean Wahl, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, T.S. Eliot | 1 Comment

Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps – La Découverte, September 2026

Posted on June 26, 2026 by stuartelden

Didier Fassin, Ainsi pensait Michel Foucault: Enquête sur une philosophie pour notre temps – La Découverte, September 2026 Après Leçons de ténèbres, le nouveau cours de Didier Fassin au Collège de France. À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Michel … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, La Chose Séminaire (1975-1977) Suivi de la 6e séance de Donner le temps II – ed. Philippe Lynes, Seuil, May 2026

Posted on June 24, 2026 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, La Chose Séminaire (1975-1977) Suivi de la 6e séance de Donner le temps II – ed. Philippe Lynes, Seuil, May 2026 Entre 1975 et 1977, Jacques Derrida s’engage dans un séminaire énigmatique, voire obscur au premier abord, intitulé La Chose. Ce … Continue reading →

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The Selected Writings of Marc Bloch: Essays from the Annales School, 1914-1944 – ed. and trans. Iona Singh, Bloomsbury, August 2026

Posted on June 23, 2026 by stuartelden

The Selected Writings of Marc Bloch: Essays from the Annales School, 1914-1944 – ed. and trans. Iona Singh, Bloomsbury, August 2026 This book brings a selection of the influential writings of Marc Bloch into the English language, largely for the … Continue reading →

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Initial Thoughts on Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm’s The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History

Posted on June 21, 2026 by stuartelden

There was a lot I learned, and much I liked, about Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm’s recently published The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History (University of Chicago Press, 2026). There was also a great deal which has … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Wahl, Michel Foucault, Sunday Histories, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized | 1 Comment