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Joseph Falaky Nagy review of the new edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty (both review and book open access)

Posted on October 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Joseph Falaky Nagy generously reviews the new edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden, from Hau Books in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Both the journal and the … Continue reading →

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Roman Jakobson’s paper to The First World Conference on Yiddish Studies, 1958: “The Languages of the Diaspora as a Particular Linguistic Problem”

Posted on October 26, 2025 by stuartelden

In an earlier piece in the ‘Sunday Histories’ series, I discussed the work Roman Jakobson did for Franz Boas on the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Library. In his initial time in the United States, as a refugee from … Continue reading →

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Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025)

Posted on October 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025) – via Foucault News

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The Andrea Rosenthal Memorial Lecture – “Émile Benveniste, the Second World War and the Making of the Vocabulary of Indo-European Institutions”, Brown University, 22 October 2025, 5.30pm

Posted on October 22, 2025 by stuartelden

The Andrea Rosenthal Memorial Lecture – “Émile Benveniste, the Second World War and the Making of the Vocabulary of Indo-European Institutions”, Brown University, 22 October 2025, 5.30pm The Comparative Literature Department cordially invites you to join us for Émile Benveniste, the … Continue reading →

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024; Book launch, University of Bristol 22 October 2025

Posted on October 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms – Bloomsbury, December 2024 Book launch, University of Bristol 22 October 2025 You are warmly invited to a book launch and roundtable discussion with Dr. Federico … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Dumézil and Benoîte Groult: the Académie française and the debate about feminine nouns for professions

Posted on October 19, 2025 by stuartelden

In his dialogues with Didier Eribon, published in 1989, Claude Lévi-Strauss commented on the linguistic work of the Académie française, and especially a campaign to amend the gender terminology of professions. Should, for example, a female politician be referred to … Continue reading →

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Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now – University of Chicago Press, March 2026

Posted on October 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now – University of Chicago Press, March 2026 A powerful exploration of how Hegel’s ideas about freedom can speak to social injustice today. One might be forgiven for feeling that the philosophical tradition, notoriously … Continue reading →

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The library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert, inventory online

Posted on October 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Announcing the official launch of the Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard Announcement in French and English – thanks to Foucault News … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025 Now published Comment s’est constituée, à travers le temps, la … Continue reading →

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Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 (print and open access) and two interviews

Posted on October 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 – hardback and open access available now; paperback in June 2026 Uncovers the nonhuman turn’s unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France … Continue reading →

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