Category Archives: People

John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology – University of Minnesota Press, March 2025

Posted on January 3, 2025 by stuartelden

John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology – University of Minnesota Press, March 2025 A wide-ranging examination of the roots—and possible future—of violence in human societies Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2024

Posted on December 31, 2024 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year (or late the previous one), and that I read and liked them. Many of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Eduardo Mendieta, Fredric Jameson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gillian Rose, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Mircea Eliade, Stefanos Geroulanos, Territory, Theory, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Books received – Foucault, Greimas, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Vernant, Lejeune

Posted on December 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Most of these bought on a recent Paris trip, and a couple from online second-hand stores. Spectres of Marx is a new edition, including a debate with Étienne Balibar; Du même à l’autre is the most recent seminar volume, including … Continue reading →

Posted in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault | 1 Comment

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite – complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review

Posted on December 29, 2024 by stuartelden

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite – complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review – requires subscription or free registration to read just this piece

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Foucault’s Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2024 by stuartelden

I’ve shared this before, but was thinking again about Daniel Defert’s memories of Foucault’s working routines in this interview – ‘The Materiality of a Working Life‘ (open access; original French). No no, weekends didn’t exist! We would go to see … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 25: Benveniste’s teaching, a talk at St Andrews, Tzvetan Todorov, Roman Jakobson, and some archival work in Paris and Oxford

Posted on December 20, 2024 by stuartelden

I’m overdue an update on this project, but while I’ve been working hard, I haven’t felt there has been much to say until now. I’ve also had some further health problems, leading to another shorter stay in hospital and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Michel Foucault, Roman Jakobson | 3 Comments

Émile Benveniste, Problèmes de linguistique générale – Problems in General Linguistics and other English translations – list updated

Posted on December 19, 2024 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page Émile Benveniste, Problèmes de linguistique générale – Problems in General Linguistics and other English translations Thanks to Jordan K. Skinner, the editor of the forthcoming new edition of Problems for some new information. A translation of a … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024

Posted on December 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024 The book is now available for sale, in print or e-book via … Continue reading →

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Hannah Arendt, What Remains: Collected Poems, ed. and trans. Samantha Rose Hill, trans. Genese Grill – Liveright, December 2024

Posted on December 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Hannah Arendt, What Remains: Collected Poems, ed. and trans. Samantha Rose Hill, trans. Genese Grill – Liveright, December 2024 A landmark literary event, What Remains collects Arendt’s complete poetic oeuvre—never before published in English. Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century’s … Continue reading →

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Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024

Posted on December 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024 Bornées. Une histoire illustrée de la frontière raconte la frontière franco-suisse en bande dessinée. L’initiative de cette recherche s’enracine dans le contexte très particulier de la pandémie … Continue reading →

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