Category Archives: People

Books received – Quinn, Stonebridge, Harari, Donato, Anheim & Pasquali, Kojève, Jakobson, Wilson, Fall

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

A pile of mostly recently bought books, including Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History; Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience; Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Kojève, Boundaries, Erwin Panofsky, Hannah Arendt, Juliet Fall, Pierre Bourdieu, Roman Jakobson, Territory | 1 Comment

Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists

Posted on June 8, 2025 by stuartelden

While I’ve been working on my Indo-European thought project, I’ve looked at a few books from the University of Warwick’s library which came from the Gillian Rose collection. Some of the books from that collection could not be borrowed – ones … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Gillian Rose, Mircea Eliade, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Lucy Benjamin, Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on June 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Lucy Benjamin, Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025 (print and open access) Explores the connection between ecological crisis and Arendtian politics of the earth Rereads Hannah Arendt’s writings, with a view to … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on June 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – the resulting publications and the archive of its lectures

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Louis Althusser’s seminars at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) are of course best known for the famous Reading Capital volume, which developed from his 1964-65 seminar. He ran seminars on the young Marx in 1961-62 and Lacan and psychoanalysis in 1963-64. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Georges Canguilhem, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Roman Jakobson, Franz Boas, and the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Library

Posted on June 1, 2025 by stuartelden

The support for refugee scholars to come to the United States of America in the 1930s and 1940s is well known. Varian Fry famously helped several hundred European artists and intellectuals to flee Vichy France between 1940 and 1941. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ernst Cassirer, Ernst Kantorowicz, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Emanuel Quashie, The War on Terror in the Caribbean: Schmittian Perspectives – Routledge, May 2025

Posted on May 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Emanuel Quashie, The War on Terror in the Caribbean: Schmittian Perspectives – Routledge, May 2025 This book offers a multifaceted understanding of how the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror affected the Caribbean. This book dives deeper into … Continue reading →

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Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, August 2025

Posted on May 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, August 2025 This book has been put back to August 2025, but looking forward to this. ‘Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare’s 20th-century fascist followers is not … Continue reading →

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Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on May 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books network discussion with Lily Goren Across Italy in … Continue reading →

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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift

Posted on May 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s literary journal TriQuarterly was a significant piece on so-called “structuralism”, and the following year’s “Michel … Continue reading →

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