Category Archives: People

Young Habermas: An Interview with Roman Yos – Jonas Knatz at Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on December 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Young Habermas: An Interview with Roman Yos – Jonas Knatz at Journal of the History of Ideas blog Roman Yos is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on the history of German … Continue reading →

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Books received (2) – Hyppolite, Mauss, Wollstonecraft, Jameson, Benveniste, Forestal & Philips, Besteman

Posted on December 23, 2020 by stuartelden

The papers from Hyppolite’s final seminar (including pieces by Derrida and Althusser), Marcel Mauss, Sociologie et anthropologie, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, some works by Emile Benveniste, Fredric Jameson’s The Prison-House of Language, Jennifer Forestal and … Continue reading →

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Books received (1) – Badiou, Stimilli, Eliade, Rosenberg & Westfall, Duby, Heidegger, Turner

Posted on December 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books in recompense for review work for Bloomsbury, James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities and a second-hand copy of Georges Duby, The Three Orders.

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New Books Network interview with Dave O’Brien – Stuart Elden, Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

Posted on December 21, 2020 by stuartelden

New Books Network interview with Dave O’Brien – Stuart Elden, Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018) Thanks to Dave for the invitation to be part of this excellent podcast again. What can Shakespeare tell us about territory, and what … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault Update 4: The term from hell, Foucault in Brazil and Tunisia, and the problems of archival research in a pandemic

Posted on December 18, 2020 by stuartelden

This was an exceptionally difficult term – probably the hardest I can remember in twenty-five years of working in universities. It was very hard to make any progress on this manuscript – the fourth and final book in this sequence … Continue reading →

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Emanuel Clairizio, Robert Poma and Michel Spanò (eds.), Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux – Éditions Mimesis, 2020

Posted on December 18, 2020 by stuartelden

Emanuel Clairizio, Robert Poma and Michel Spanò (eds.), Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux – Éditions Mimesis, 2020 Georges Canguilhem af­firmait que la notion de milieu s’était constituée « comme catégorie de la pensée contemporaine ». En effet, depuis que la biologie de … Continue reading →

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Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021

Posted on December 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021 This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s … Continue reading →

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Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War – videos of 11 December 2020 conference

Posted on December 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Online Conference Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War (edited) A selection of the papers and discussions from the 11/12/2020 online conference on Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War / Territoires d’histoire, territoires littéraires en guerre (Université … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker’ – video abstract and open access article

Posted on December 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden, ‘Foucault as Translator of Binswanger and von Weizsäcker‘ – The video abstract for this open access article is now available: Foucault’s Introduction to a translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s essay ‘Dream and Existence’ was published in late 1954. The … Continue reading →

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Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 (and Revising Gramsci’s Notebooks now in paper)

Posted on December 9, 2020 by stuartelden

Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight into Antonio Gramsci’s thought. Building on the achievements of recent Gramscian scholarship, … Continue reading →

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