Category Archives: People

Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

Posted on April 25, 2022 by stuartelden

As I’ve mentioned before, as part of the next big project, I am working on a new English edition of Georges Dumézil’s book Mitra-Varuna: An Essay of Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty. The book was published in 1940, and in a … Continue reading →

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Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity – reviewed at Berfrois (open access)

Posted on April 22, 2022 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. At Berfrois, I review Paul Allen Miller’s recent book Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth … Continue reading →

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Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva – discussed at the New Books Network

Posted on April 21, 2022 by stuartelden

At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the first biography of Julia Kristeva–one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva’s work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva’s personal … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault update 15: submission of the revised manuscript and the end of the project

Posted on April 8, 2022 by stuartelden

On Wednesday afternoon, I submitted the final, revised manuscript of The Archaeology of Foucault to Polity. I’d submitted the manuscript for review in February during Warwick’s reading week, and had two very positive and useful reports back at the end of March. … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – University of Minnesota Press, 2022 discount codes

Posted on April 6, 2022 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology and Geography – University of Minnesota Press, 2022. Edited by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, translated by Robert Bononno, with one essay each by Matthew Dennis and Sîan Rosa Hunter Dodsworth. Discount … Continue reading →

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Books received – Ginzburg, Mauss, Eliade, Goldstein, Brennan

Posted on April 6, 2022 by stuartelden

A couple by Carlo Ginzburg, including his new Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal, the Hau books edition of Marcel Mauss, The Gift, translated by Jane Guyer with additional material, an older book by Mircea Eliade, Jan Goldstein’s Foucault and the Writing of … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault talk, the end of term and 3 million blog visits

Posted on March 18, 2022 by stuartelden

Today I enjoyed speaking about the work that went into The Early Foucault with the Genealogy in the Humanities project (Syracuse University and Cornell University). Thanks to Alex Livingston and Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson for organising, and those who attended and asked questions. … Continue reading →

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A brief history of Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero – on the Verso blog

Posted on March 18, 2022 by stuartelden

At the Verso books blog I have a piece tracing the history of Louis Althusser’s Théorie series at François Maspero in the 1960s and 1970s From 1965 until 1980, Louis Althusser edited the Théorie series of books, each released by the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Althusser, Balibar, Falasca-Zamponi, Jessop

Posted on March 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Some second-hand books by Althusser and Balibar, two new Points editions of Lacan seminars, Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi’s Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy, and Bob Jessop’s new book, Putting Civil Society in its Place, pre-ordered in recompense for … Continue reading →

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The Collège de Sociologie and Shakespeare, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare seminar, 9 April 2022 (online)

Posted on March 4, 2022 by stuartelden

9 April 2022, 10am-6pm (UK) – The Collège de Sociologie and Shakespeare, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, online event. Pleased to share the details of this seminar, co-organised with Richard Wilson. The event is online, sadly, instead of at the lovely Garrick’s … Continue reading →

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