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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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Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research – Gdansk, 17-19 July 2025

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research – Gdansk, 17-19 July 2025

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Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme industriel et socialisme paysan/Industrial Socialism and Peasant Socialism”, Actuel Marx, 2023, eds. Claire Revol and Armelle Lefebvre

Posted on May 22, 2025 by stuartelden

I missed this when published a couple of years ago – a previously unpublished lecture by Henri Lefebvre, taken from his archives, which have been deposited at IMEC and are being catalogued – see the initial notice. Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme … Continue reading →

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The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 – Swedenborg Hall, London, 18-19 June 2025

Posted on May 21, 2025 by stuartelden

The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture Conference 2025 – Swedenborg Hall, London, 18-19 June 2025 ‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not’ – Rose’s discovery of Silouan the Athonite’s maxim provided the occasion for Love’s Work and guided its weaving … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 28: archives in Princeton, Chicago and final work in New York

Posted on May 20, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve continued my work with archives in the USA over the past several weeks. Some of this has been in relation to the Indo-European Thought project, but I’ve managed to work on some peripheral things too.I had two days in Princeton, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Adorno, Benveniste, Jakobson, Godel

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Three books by Adorno from Verso, and second-hand copies of Émile Benveniste’s Indo-European Language and Society, the first volume of Roman Jakobson’s Selected Writings, and Robert Godel, Les Sources Manuscrites du cours de linguistique générale de F. de Saussure.

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Books received – Robeyns, Billé, Legg, Neocleous, Daviron, Granet, Shapiro, Testa, Carrigan, Pothecary

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Books generously sent to me by publishers, authors or editors. Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism; Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities; Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police; … 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 (open access)

Posted on May 19, 2025 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 As I was away, I’ve only just received the editor copies. The … Continue reading →

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