Category Archives: People

Jean Hyppolite, Studien über Marx und Hegel – ed. and trans. Thomas Ebke, Sabina Hoth and Frank Müller – Meiner Verlag, 2025

Posted on September 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Jean Hyppolite, Studien über Marx und Hegel – ed. and trans. Thomas Ebke, Sabina Hoth and Frank Müller – Meiner Verlag, 2025 Thanks to Thomas Ebke for the information about this – he says it’s the first translation of a book … Continue reading →

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Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome – Routledge, June 2025

Posted on September 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome – Routledge, June 2025

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Étienne Wolff and the biology of monsters – writing as a prisoner of war, Collège de France administrator, and the engagement with his work by Georges Canguilhem, Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault

Posted on September 21, 2025 by stuartelden

In exploring the histories of professors and their teaching at the Collège de France, I’ve often looked at correspondence between chairs, candidates and the administrator. Administrators are elected from within the professoriate and have quite a lot of power in … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Étienne Wolff, Canguilhem (book), Fernand Braudel, Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Sunday Histories, The Archaeology of Foucault, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Barry Stocker ed. Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction – Routledge, September 2025

Posted on September 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Barry Stocker ed. Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction – Routledge, September 2025 Ethics in Deconstruction is vital reading for anyone interested in Derrida and the ethical implications of deconstruction broadly defined. It offers a comprehensive set of essays on the ethics of … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Berfrois articles – a complete archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Posted on September 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernst Kantorowicz, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Georges Dumézil, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Shakespearean Territories, The Archaeology of Foucault, The Early Foucault, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Erwin Panofsky’s dog and Ernst Kantorowicz

Posted on September 15, 2025 by stuartelden

In the archives of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, there are some papers relating to Erwin Panofsky, the art historian, collected by his second wife Gerda Panofsky (née Sörgel). I was led there by the question of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ernst Kantorowicz, Erwin Panofsky, Pierre Bourdieu, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Pierre Bourdieu and Erwin Panofsky: Architecture, Scholasticism and the Concept of Habitus

Posted on September 14, 2025 by stuartelden

In 1967, Pierre Bourdieu translated Erwin Panofsky’s 1951 book Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism into French. The German-born Panofsky is best known for his work in art history, and for developing Aby Warburg’s distinction between iconography and iconology. He was teaching alternate semesters … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Erwin Panofsky, Ferdinand de Saussure, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Sunday Histories | 5 Comments

Hegel 13/13 – Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought series

Posted on September 13, 2025 by stuartelden

The seminars at the Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought organised by Bernard Harcourt continue with Hegel 13/13. I was able to go to several of the Marx 13/13 series earlier this year, and the larger events are usually … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernard E. Harcourt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025

Posted on September 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025 This book focuses on political presuppositions animating modern historical reflection in Germany that underwent sharp radicalization in … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Arnault Skornicki, Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences – Springer, September 2025

Posted on September 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Arnault Skornicki, Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences – Springer, September 2025 based on La grande Soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales (2017) This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s political thought. Far from … Continue reading →

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