Category Archives: People

The Murder of Ioan Culianu – Eliade, Anton, Eco, Lincoln and the University of Chicago

Posted on May 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The story sounds like a detective novel or a spy thriller. A professor of the history of religion at the University of Chicago is shot at close range in the third-floor bathroom of Swift Hall in 1991. The killing is … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57

Posted on May 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, “Foucault, Dynastics and Power Relations”, Philosophy, Politics and Critique, Vol 2 No 1, 2025, 40-57. Michel Foucault’s historical approach is usually understood as moving from archaeology to genealogy, the former describing his work of the 1960s and the latter … Continue reading →

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Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025

Posted on May 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Boris Groys, Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography – Verso, November 2025 I’m sure this will be interesting, but I’m disappointed it’s only 160 pages. This really feels like it needs someone to do a really major treatment. I’ve read the Jeff … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, and The Song of Igor – other sources for the story of a failed collaboration

Posted on May 4, 2025 by stuartelden

In a previous piece on Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, Marc Szeftel and The Song of Igor, I outlined the story of a planned collaborative edition and English translation of the Slavic epic The Song of Igor. This is a text of disputed … Continue reading →

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025

Posted on May 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 Update June 2025: New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende An exploration of the political thought of one of the twentieth … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Roses for Gramsci – Monthly Review Press, April 2025

Posted on April 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Roses for Gramsci – Monthly Review Press, April 2025 A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci In June 2023, author Andy Merrifield and his partner and their daughter moved … Continue reading →

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Émile Benveniste and the Sogdian Word for ‘Knee’

Posted on April 27, 2025 by stuartelden

This was written for an event on ‘Troubling Classical Bodies‘ at the Remarque Institute at New York University on 11 April 2025. My thanks to Stefanos Geroulanos and Brooke Holmes for the invitation to give this short talk, and to … Continue reading →

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Matteo Polleri and Bernard E. Harcourt: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video)

Posted on April 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Matteo Polleri and Bernard E. Harcourt: A Conversation on Marx and Foucault (video) Academic debate tends to create conflicts among straw figures. That is certainly what has often happened in the many debates over Karl Marx and Michel Foucault. But … Continue reading →

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Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, ed. Robert E. Lerner – Cornell University Press, July 2025

Posted on April 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State – ed. Robert E. Lerner, Cornell University Press, July 2025 Radiances gathers previously unpublished essays by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century. Although best known for The … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Psychanalyse et critique littéraire (1969-1970) – Seuil, April 2025

Posted on April 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Psychanalyse et critique littéraire (1969-1970) – Seuil, April 2025 Thanks to John Raimo for the link Durant l’année universitaire 1969-1970, Jacques Derrida consacre un séminaire au problème des rapports entre la psychanalyse et la critique littéraire. Ce séminaire, … Continue reading →

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