Category Archives: People

Lucien Gerschel bibliography (and other research resources)

Posted on May 5, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve written about Lucien Gerschel in two posts in my ‘Sunday Histories‘ series – Lucien Gerschel, Georges Dumézil, William Shakespeare and the history of Coriolanus and The Tragic Death of Lucien Gerschel and his Posthumous Text on the Finnish Sampo. He was a student … Continue reading →

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Tel Quel goes to China: Sollers, Kristeva, Barthes, Pleynet, Wahl and the Cultural Revolution

Posted on May 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Tel Quel famously went to China in 1974. Tel Quel was an important literary journal founded in 1960, to which many of the major names of ‘French theory’ contributed, including Michel Foucault, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida. The journal was edited by Philippe … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 (all open access)

Posted on May 2, 2026 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies, Issue 39, Spring 2026 (all open access) Lots of interesting papers and reviews, including “Genealogy as Critical Practice: Toward a Reading of Affective Genealogy” by my former PhD Mostyn Taylor Crockett.

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Laurence Hemming and Aaron Turner eds. Heidegger and Parmenides – Bloomsbury, April 2026

Posted on April 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Laurence Hemming and Aaron Turner eds. Heidegger and Parmenides – Bloomsbury, April 2026 This collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heidegger’s quest to bring … Continue reading →

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The Tragic Death of Lucien Gerschel and his Posthumous Text on the Finnish Sampo

Posted on April 26, 2026 by stuartelden

In a previous piece in this series, I discussed Georges Dumézil’s student and colleague Lucien Gerschel and their discussions of the Roman general Coriolanus. Gerschel had attended lectures by Dumézil at the École Pratique des Hautes Études shortly before the Second World War. … Continue reading →

Posted in Georges Dumézil, Lucien Gerschel, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Sunday Histories | 2 Comments

Peter Sloterdijk, The Continent Without Qualities: Bookmarks in the Book of Europe, trans. Robert Hughes, Cambridge: Polity, 2026

Posted on April 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, The Continent Without Qualities: Bookmarks in the Book of Europe, trans. Robert Hughes, Cambridge: Polity, 2026 Europe has often been the target of criticism: Europe has lost touch with its core values, its leaders are indecisive and its citizens … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on April 24, 2026 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK Tickets available via Eventbrite Famously described as the Twenty Years Crisis by the international relations historian E.H. Carr, the period between the First and Second … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 32 – trying to improve a draft

Posted on April 20, 2026 by stuartelden

As I said in the last update, I went to the EUI in Florence at the beginning of February with a nearly complete draft of my manuscript on Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France, and had the plan to leave at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Étienne Wolff, Emile Benveniste, Fernand Braudel, Georges Dumézil, Julia Kristeva, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Sunday Histories, Travel, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Julia Kristeva’s portrait of Émile Benveniste in The Samurai

Posted on April 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva’s first novel The Samurai was published in 1990. It’s not the greatest novel, but it’s well known that the book is a thinly disguised autobiography, with the central character Olga Morena modelled on herself. Many of the famous names of … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Julia Kristeva, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Books received – Nizan, Macciocchi, Nussbaum, Nail, Hathaway, Watkins, Stilz, Joseph

Posted on April 17, 2026 by stuartelden

Books from Oxford University Press in recompense for review work, and two from Verso.

Posted in Ferdinand de Saussure, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Territory | 1 Comment