Category Archives: People

Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop, Althusser and Spinoza: Detours and Returns – trans. Élise Hendrick ed. Dan Taylor, Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on November 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop, Althusser and Spinoza: Detours and Returns – trans. Élise Hendrick ed. Dan Taylor, Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist – Columbia University Press, March 2026

Posted on November 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist – Columbia University Press, March 2026 Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault’s 24 May 1979 paper on hermaphrodites to the Arcadie conference

Posted on November 26, 2025 by stuartelden

An earlier piece discussed the recently published Les Hermaphrodites, a manuscript by Foucault from the mid-late 1970s, at one point destined for a volume of the History of Sexuality. I also outlined the different plans Foucault discussed for the structure of the History of Sexuality series – … Continue reading →

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Marcel Mauss, Sociologie générale – ed. Francesco Callegaro and Johan Giry, PUF, November 2025

Posted on November 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Marcel Mauss, Sociologie générale – ed. Francesco Callegaro and Johan Giry, PUF, November 2025 En 1930, lors de sa candidature au Collège de France, Marcel Mauss a souligné combien son oeuvre ne pouvait être dissociée du projet d’Émile Durkheim et … Continue reading →

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Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024, paperback March 2026

Posted on November 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024, paperback March 2026

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Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom

Posted on November 23, 2025 by stuartelden

R. Gordon Wasson was Vice President at the American investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., a major supporter of Slavic Studies in the United States during the Cold War, and fascinated by hallucinogenic mushrooms.  His wife, Valentina Pavlovna Wasson was … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025

Posted on November 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025 When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 – trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Verso, November 2025

Posted on November 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 – trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Verso, November 2025 An elegant new translation of Benjamin’s moving evocation of the experiences of his urban childhood Composed in exile in the 1930s and pub­lished as a whole only after … Continue reading →

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Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025

Posted on November 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d’Hélène – Julliard, September 2025 J’ai mis des années avant d’oser écrire sur Hélène. Elle n’était pas que l’étranglée de la rue d’Ulm. Elle était un mystère, une femme aux multiples identités, une personnalité opaque, hermétique … Continue reading →

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Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on November 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Political Glory: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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