Category Archives: People

Chris O’Kane, Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre – Brill, March 2026

Posted on January 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Chris O’Kane, Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre – Brill, March 2026 The Marxian theory of fetishism is usually interpreted as a theory of false consciousness, alienation, or reification pertaining to commodities or culture. … Continue reading →

Posted in Georg Lukács, Henri Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Kristeva, Ryback, Sergent, Ruwet, Deleuze, Serres, Burrin

Posted on January 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Mostly bought second-hand, but including Michel Serres, Hermes III, sent by University of Minnesota Press, and Gilles Deleuze, Sur les lignes de vie. The one without a clear title on the spine is Jean-Claude Ruwet, Introduction to Ethology: The Biology … Continue reading →

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Mircea Eliade on alchemy; Marie-Madeleine Davy on mysticism and symbolism

Posted on January 18, 2026 by stuartelden

Among many other topics, the Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade wrote about alchemy. His 1937 book Cosmologie Şi Alchimie Babiloniană was translated into French as Cosmologie et alchimie babyloniennes, but only in 1991. A substantial part of this text appeared in English … Continue reading →

Posted in Marie-Madeleine Davy, Mircea Eliade, Simone Weil, Sunday Histories | 2 Comments

Alain Badiou, A Political Life: 1937-1985 – trans. Robin Mackay, Polity, November 2025

Posted on January 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Alain Badiou, A Political Life: 1937-1985 – trans. Robin Mackay, Polity, November 2025 In this book, the renowned philosopher and polymath Alain Badiou tells the story of the first five decades of his life, from 1937 to 1985, setting it … Continue reading →

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Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on January 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, November 2025 The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume. Throughout his … Continue reading →

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Jean Berthier, Voyage tranquille au pays des horreurs: Sollers, Barthes, Kristeva, Pleynet, Wahl… en Chine – Le Cherche Midi, January 2026

Posted on January 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean Berthier, Voyage tranquille au pays des horreurs: Sollers, Barthes, Kristeva, Pleynet, Wahl… en Chine – Le Cherche Midi, January 2026 Thanks to Barthes Studies on Bluesky for the link. Le roman documenté du voyage de Philippe Sollers, Roland Barthes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes | 2 Comments

Clémence Ramnoux – Mythology, Psychology, Philosophy

Posted on January 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Clémence Ramnoux (1905-1997) was an important French scholar of ancient Greece. She worked mostly on the pre-Socratics, especially Heraclitus. Alongside Simone Pétrement she was one of the first two women who entered the philosophy programme of the École Normale Supérieure in 1927. Simone Weil … Continue reading →

Posted in Clémence Ramnoux, Emile Benveniste, Gaston Bachelard, Jacques Lacan, Jean Gottmann, Jean Hyppolite, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Stuart Elden, “Visuality and Vocabulary in Political Geography”, Dialogues in Human Geography, review forum on Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, online first

Posted on January 7, 2026 by stuartelden

My contribution to a review forum on Juliet Fall’s remarkable books Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière (Mētis); Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL) has now been published online first in Dialogues in Human Geography Stuart Elden, … Continue reading →

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Arden Shakespeare fourth series – first three volumes scheduled

Posted on January 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Arden Shakespeare fourth series – first three volumes scheduled Julius Caesar, edited by Andrew James Hartley Titus Andronicus, edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson As You Like It, edited by Tom Bishop The first two are scheduled for May, … Continue reading →

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Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity

Posted on January 4, 2026 by stuartelden

In a previous pieces in this series I’ve discussed Étienne Wolff’s work on the biology of monsters, some of which was written during his time in Oflag XVII-A during the Second World War. (An Oflag was a Offizierslager – a German camp for Allied … Continue reading →

Posted in Fernand Braudel, Henri Lefebvre, Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 2 Comments