Category Archives: Roman Jakobson

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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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021

Posted on January 20, 2021 by stuartelden

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021, translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff The original French edition of these texts was published by Seuil in 2019 as Anthropologie structurale zéro. This volume of Lévi-Strauss’s writings from 1941 … Continue reading →

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Books received – Peeters, Benveniste, Biagi, Collard, Brighenti & Karrholm, Lévi-Strauss and Jakobson, Hyppolite, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss and Eribon

Posted on November 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Alongside some books bought new or second-hand for the Foucault work and related projects, I was sent a copy of Rosemary Clare-Collard, Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade by the publisher, Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology … Continue reading →

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Foucault, La grande étrangère: À propos de literature forthcoming in English

Posted on February 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s La grande étrangère: À propos de literature is forthcoming in English translation with University of Minnesota Press as Language, Madness and Desire: On Literature, scheduled for May 2015. As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches … Continue reading →

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