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Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites – Gallimard, September 2025

Posted on August 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites – Gallimard, September 2025, eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Arianna Sforzini, preface by Arianna Sforzini and a postface by Éric Fassin I’ve shared news of this book before, but the Gallimard site now has a description: En 1978, Michel … Continue reading →

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Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race – Manchester University Press, March 2025

Posted on August 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race – Manchester University Press, March 2025 Spirits of extraction revisits the troubling history of socially reformist, ostensibly anti-racist, Christianity and its role in the expansion of the … Continue reading →

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Herman Lommel and the ancient Aryans – Hegel’s great-grandson, Saussure translator and his links to Benveniste, Dumézil and Wikander

Posted on August 3, 2025 by stuartelden

In Mitra-Varuna in 1940, Georges Dumézil mentions the equation of Ahura-Mazdāh and Varuna, which he says was a “hypothesis, long accepted without argument”, but which “has subsequently been hotly disputed – wrongly, in my belief”, and that “on this point I regret … Continue reading →

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Jeremy DeWaal, Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990 – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Jeremy DeWaal, Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990 – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 New Books discussion with Jenna Pittman – thanks to dmf for the link

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Arthur Ghins, The People’s Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

Posted on August 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Arthur Ghins, The People’s Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

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Nathan Schlanger, The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

Posted on August 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Nathan Schlanger, The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan – Cambridge University Press, January 2026; translation of L’Invention de la technologie: Une histoire intellectuelle avec André Leroi-Gourhan – PUF, January 2023 See also this interview with Stefanos … Continue reading →

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Andy Hines ed. University Keywords – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2025

Posted on July 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Andy Hines ed. University Keywords – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2025 How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles. University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original understandings of 27 key terms … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism – trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine’s Press, July 2025

Posted on July 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Alexandre Kojève, The Idea of Determinism – trans. Robert B. Williamson, St Augustine’s Press, July 2025 The previous volume of Alexandre Kojève’s (1902–1968) work published by St. Augustine’s Press, The Concept, Time and Discourse (2019), was the introduction to an unfinished magnum … Continue reading →

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Anders Stephenson, American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Matters – Verso, July 2025

Posted on July 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Anders Stephenson, American Imperatives: The Cold War and Other Matters – Verso, July 2025 A radical reinterpretation of the Cold War by its most iconoclastic historian. What was the cold war? Conventional wisdom makes it coextensive with an epoch stretching … Continue reading →

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Georges Dumézil’s Mythe et épopée series and its partial English translations – updated

Posted on July 29, 2025 by stuartelden

I’ve updated the page on Georges Dumézil’s Mythe et épopée series and its partial English translations with the page references to the 1977 and 1982 notes translated in The Stakes of the Warrior and The Plight of the Sorcerer. The French has notes to … Continue reading →

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