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Indo-European thought project update 6: beginning the Leverhulme fellowship, my self-imposed guidelines for writing and time-discipline, and some summer cycling and writing

Posted on October 7, 2022 by stuartelden

I’m in the incredibly privileged position of beginning a Leverhulme major research fellowship this week, to work on the Indo-European thought in Twentieth-Century France project. As a note to myself, I’m going to try to work with the guidelines I set myself seven years … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden – HAU books, June 2023

Posted on October 3, 2022 by stuartelden

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden – HAU books, June 2023. Pre-order details at the University of Chicago Press site, who distribute HAU books. A classic text that develops one … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sevilla-Buitrago, Saberi, TCS, Polity, Gaston,

Posted on September 30, 2022 by stuartelden

Two excellent books I read in manuscript – Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Planning and Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto, the new special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Richard Polt, … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Theory, Culture and Society, urban/urbanisation | 1 Comment

David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse – Verso, February 2023

Posted on September 16, 2022 by stuartelden

David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse – Verso, February 2023 Update: editor Sebastian Budgen discusses the book here.

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Jeff Malpas, In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After Heidegger – SUNY Press, September 2022

Posted on September 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking In and After Heidegger – SUNY Press, September 2022 The work of Jeff Malpas is well-known for its contribution to contemporary thinking about place and space. In the Brightness of Place takes that … Continue reading →

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Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History – Princeton University Press, June 2023

Posted on September 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History – Princeton University Press, June 2023 The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with … Continue reading →

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Nicholas Blomley, Territory: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, September 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 by stuartelden

Nicholas Blomley, Territory: New Trajectories in Law – Routledge, September 2022 This book introduces readers to the concept of territory as it applies to law while demonstrating the particular work that territory does in organizing property relations.  Territories can be … Continue reading →

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William M. Hawley, Shakespeare’s Theory of International Relations: Diplomacy, Romance, and Aesthetics – Cambridge Scholars, August 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 by stuartelden

William M. Hawley, Shakespeare’s Theory of International Relations: Diplomacy, Romance, and Aesthetics – Cambridge Scholars, August 2022 This book treats William Shakespeare’s romances as international relations (IR) theory plays depicting paths to peace abroad, showing that the playwright sounds the … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Perjury and Pardon Volume 1, translated by David Wills – University of Chicago Press, September 2022

Posted on September 5, 2022 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Perjury and Pardon Volume 1, translated by David Wills – University of Chicago Press, September 2022 An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. … Continue reading →

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Professors at the Collège de France 1985 – Bourdieu, Duby, Dumézil, Hadot, Veyne, et. al.

Posted on September 4, 2022 by stuartelden

This photograph of professors at the Collège de France is interesting, and I’m curious about who else is in here. It was posted on Twitter by Jorge Galindo, who indicates some of the people – a. Pierre Bourdieu b. Georges … Continue reading →

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