Category Archives: Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes, Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque – Classiques Garnier, eds. Christophe Corbier and Coste Claude, February 2023

Posted on March 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Roland Barthes, Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque – Classiques Garnier, edited by Christophe Corbier and Coste Claude, February 2023 En 1941, Roland Barthes soutient son diplôme d’études supérieures à la Sorbonne sous la direction de Paul Mazon. Le … Continue reading →

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Interviews with Mary Douglas and Roland Barthes in ‘Notes on Structuralism’ section of Theory, Culture and Society (open access)

Posted on February 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger: An Interview – Mike Featherstone, Bryan S. Turner A previously unpublished 1979 interview: This interview with Mary Douglas took place at Lancaster University in the Religious Studies Department. The main focus of the interview … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought project update 9: Dumézil’s courses; Benveniste’s teaching records; Barthes, Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida; and a forthcoming article on “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”

Posted on January 31, 2023 by stuartelden

Over the last month I have made some progress on a few different aspects of this project.  The main task in Paris was continuing working through the boxes of Georges Dumézil’s courses, held at the Collège de France archives. I’ve now … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Felix Guattari, Georges Dumézil, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, The Archaeology of Foucault | 1 Comment

Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Tamm, Geoghegan, Barthes

Posted on January 23, 2023 by stuartelden

A few books bought recently, including Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory and Jacques Lacan’s The Object Relation, recently out in paperback.

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Indo-European thought project update 8: working on Barthes, Lévi-Strauss and the Mission Paul Pelliot

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Since the last update on this project I’ve not done quite what I intended. I had thought I’d begin working systematically through Georges Dumézil’s works in a chronological way, filling in much detail and some gaps in my previous reading. Instead I went down … Continue reading →

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Books received – Blanchot, Lévi-Strauss, Hollier, Jackson, Barthes

Posted on December 23, 2022 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books bought for the Indo-European thought project, but also Mark Laurence Jackson, Diagrams of Power in Benjamin and Foucault: The Recluse of Architecture, in recompense for review work.

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Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics – Bloomsbury, April 2021 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on December 15, 2022 by stuartelden

Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics – Bloomsbury, April 2021 The Introduction and part of the first chapter are available at the above link. There is also a New Books Network discussion with Bill Schaffer. Suspicious … Continue reading →

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Some bibliographical questions about Roland Barthes [with some answers]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Some bibliographical questions about Roland Barthes. Any answers much appreciated – and with the first three will hopefully interesting to others; the final one is more a remark (or, as the cliché goes, more of a comment than a question). … Continue reading →

Posted in Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Indo-European Thought, Ludwig Binswanger, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, attended by Foucault, Canguilhem, Bourdieu, Serres, Thom et. al., its published traces and a request for help

Posted on October 12, 2022 by stuartelden

This is a short account of an interesting event and a rather specialist request for help. In the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s the Institut collégial européen organised a series of events, most of which were reported in their annual … Continue reading →

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Books received – Eliade, Barthes, Foucault, Kristeva, Griffiths

Posted on August 27, 2021 by stuartelden

Mostly bought second-hand, but also the new translation of Foucault’s early courses on sexuality from Columbia University Press. My endorsement is on the website but didn’t make the cut for the back cover.

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