Category Archives: People

Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940): an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology

Posted on January 26, 2025 by stuartelden

One of the challenges with my current project on Indo-European thought in France is how male-dominated it is. If you look at a photograph of the professors of the Collège de France in 1967, you can perhaps see why. It wasn’t much better at the … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 100 years of Gilles Deleuze – Edinburgh University Press

Posted on January 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Celebrating 100 years of Gilles Deleuze – Edinburgh University Press In the centenary year of his birth, we celebrate the impact of Gilles Deleuze, one of the greats of twentieth-century philosophy.  We kick off on the birthday itself – the 18th … Continue reading →

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Benveniste and the Linguistic Circle of Prague

Posted on January 19, 2025 by stuartelden

There are some good histories of the Linguistic Circle of Prague, which met in the years before the Second World War, and which included Russian scholars as well as ones from Czechoslovakia. Jindřich Toman’s The Magic of a Common Language is a particularly … Continue reading →

Posted in Antoine Meillet, Emile Benveniste, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Roman Jakobson, Sunday Histories, Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Foucault’s 1972 visit to Cornell University

Posted on January 12, 2025 by stuartelden

For his initial trips to the United States, Michel Foucault was often invited by French departments. His visits to SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and 1972, and the first of his multiple visits to the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 … Continue reading →

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Lynne Huffer, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary”, boundary 2, 2024 and Instagram tiles

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Lynne Huffer’s extraordinary essay, “Order and Archive: A Foucault Abecedary“, boundary 2, Vol 51 No 4, 2024 (requires subscription unfortunately). Lynne is now on Instagram and has posted several tiles relating to this essay. It’s a review article of my … Continue reading →

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Chris L. Smith, Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari – Bloomsbury, December 2024

Posted on January 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Chris L. Smith, Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari – Bloomsbury, December 2024 This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core … Continue reading →

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Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 and New Books discussion with Pamela Brown

Posted on January 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 New Books discussion with Pamela Brown – thanks to dmf for the link Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early … Continue reading →

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Benveniste, Dumézil, Lejeune and the decipherment of Linear B

Posted on January 5, 2025 by stuartelden

In April 1956, at Gif-sur-Yvette just outside of Paris, the first meeting of the International Colloquium on Mycenaean texts took place. The proceedings of the conference, edited by Michel Lejeune, were published later that year as Études mycéniennes: Actes du Colloque international sur … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Sunday Histories | 16 Comments

Books received – Grant, Littleton, François, Bowd & Clayton, Nobus, Ariès, Linear B and the Prague Linguistic Circle

Posted on January 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Some books received in recompense for review work… … and some second-hand ones – a couple by Philippe Ariès, some about the decipherment of Linear B, and about the Prague Linguistic Circle. Most of these relate in some way to … Continue reading →

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Peter Antich, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception, Routledge, December 2024 and review at NDPR

Posted on January 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Peter Antich, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception, Routledge, December 2024 Review at NDPR by Jack Reynolds This book draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to develop new and promising solutions to contemporary debates about perception. In providing an extension and defense of Merleau-Ponty’s … Continue reading →

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