Category Archives: People

Lucien Gerschel, Georges Dumézil, William Shakespeare and the history of Coriolanus 

Posted on August 17, 2025 by stuartelden

One of Georges Dumézil’s most loyal students was Lucien Gerschel. He seems to have begun attending his classes at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1937-38, but certainly was there for the 1938-39 course which became Dumézil’s 1940 book Mitra-Varuna. … Continue reading →

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How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando

Posted on August 15, 2025 by stuartelden

How Literary Agents Made Italian Publishing Transnational: An Interview with Anna Ferrando – Journal of the History of Ideas blog with Rose Facchini Anna Ferrando is a researcher in Contemporary History at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the … Continue reading →

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Todd McGowan, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan – Cambridge University Press, July 2025

Posted on August 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Todd McGowan, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan – Cambridge University Press, July 2025 Update September 2025: New Books discussion with Helena Vissing. Thanks to dmf for this link.

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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 August 13, 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 Comment s’est constituée, à travers le temps, la conception de … Continue reading →

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Ryan L. Allen, Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945-1975 – University of Chicago Press, January 2026

Posted on August 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Ryan L. Allen, Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945-1975 – University of Chicago Press, January 2026 Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 … Continue reading →

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“Models of Ideological Analysis” and “Ideology: Marx and Lukacs” by Fredric Jameson, Opening Lectures of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio)

Posted on August 12, 2025 by stuartelden

“Models of Ideological Analysis” by Fredric Jameson, Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio recording) Remastered audio of Fredric Jamesons opening lecture at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society sponsored by the Marxist Literary Group and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Braudel, Wolff, Bourke, Bataille, Felsch

Posted on August 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Some second-hand copies of Fernand Braudel, and Etienne Wolff’s Les chemins de la vie, and copies of Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions, Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 2, and Philipp Felsch, The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990. Wolff … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Fondation Loubat lectures at the Collège de France: A Structural Analysis of the Wolverine in North American Mythology

Posted on August 10, 2025 by stuartelden

In the 1949-50 academic year, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave the Fondation Loubat lectures at the Collège de France. He was hoping to get elected to a chair there at this time, and behind the scenes various people were lobbying for this to … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sunday Histories | 4 Comments

A postcard to Arne Furumark from the 1956 Mycenaean Studies conference

Posted on August 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Looking for something else, I chanced upon a postcard to Arne Furumark, available online, signed by the participants at the 1956 Mycenaean Studies conference outside of Paris, which I talk about here. Among the names are the decipherers of Linear B, … Continue reading →

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Two-part television interview with Georges Dumézil, CBC 1984

Posted on August 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Two-part television interview with Georges Dumézil, 1984, Rencontres, CBC with Marcel Brisebois Entrevue avec Georges Dumézil (1898-1986), membre de l’Académie française et professeur au Collège de France. Sujets abordés : – La signification du terme «indo-européen» et de «peuples indo-européens» … Continue reading →

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