Stuart Elden
@stuartelden.bsky.social
Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com .. more
Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Political science
41%
Sociology
31%
Books received – Foucault, Duby, Stratford, Hage, Ramnoux
The newly published transcription of Foucault’s 1972 course in Buffalo, two autobiographical accounts by Georges Duby, Elaine Stratford’s remarkable book The Drowned: Elements of Loss a…
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Books received - Foucault, Duby, Stratford, Hage, Ramnoux
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Burying the Enemy - Yale University Press London
A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars Why do societies only remember their ow...
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Tim Grady, Burying the Enemy. The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars - @yalepress.bsky.social, March 2025
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yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
edinburghuniversitypress.com
Joe Gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social, Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2025 (print and open access)
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open access available now
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open access available now
CFP: XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium: 50 Years of The History of Sexuality (2025-6)
Call for papers XIV MICHEL FOUCAULT INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: 50 YEARS OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY May 26 to 29, 2026 Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil. Instagram contact: foucaultna…
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CFP: XIV Michel Foucault International Colloquium - 50 years of The History of Sexuality, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, 26-29 May 2026
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Vladimir Nabokov’s original and unpublished translation of The Discourse of Igor’s Campaign; and Roman Jakobson’s enduring wish to complete his English edition
In two previous pieces in the ‘Sunday Histories’ series, I have discussed the planned but unrealised collaboration between Vladimir Nabokov and Roman Jakobson on an edition and translatio…
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Vladimir Nabokov’s original and unpublished translation of The Discourse of Igor’s Campaign; and Roman Jakobson’s enduring wish to complete his English edition
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/09/v...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/09/v...
Reposted by Stuart Elden, Margot C. Finn
New blog post: "Macintosh in the Eternal City" (or some hints on using archives in Vatican City and Rome). inneskeighren.com/williammacin... #C18
Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini’s Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy
Alberto Beneduce, a prominent banker, policy-maker and technocratic institutions’ builder, held immense power as Fascist Italy's chief banker from 1925 to 1940. Most importantly, he was Mussolini's fi...
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Lorenzo Castellani, Alberto Beneduce: Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy - Routledge, Oct 2025
www.routledge.com/Alberto-Bene...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Tim Jones
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Shame about the prohibitive price.
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Tim Jones
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Shame about the prohibitive price.
Gilles Deleuze, "On Painting" (U Minnesota Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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There is a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Books discussion of the Deleuze book with Charles Stivale, Dan Smith and Nathan Smith; and a review by Claire Colebrook at NDPR.
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SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
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Unbecoming Persons
A damning genealogy of modern personhood and a bold vision for a new ethics rooted in belonging rather than individuality. In the face of ecological crisis, economic injustice, and political violenc...
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Ladelle McWhorter, Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, November 2025
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Interview with Ladelle McWhorter on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the links.
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Interview with Ladelle McWhorter on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the links.
Reposted by Stuart Elden
L'État contre la norme - Institutions publiques et art d’avant-garde - CNRS Editions
L'État contre la norme - Institutions publiques et art d’avant-garde (EAN13 : 9782271152169) édité par CNRS Editions - Au tournant des années 1960, le champ artistique connaît un profond bouleversemen...
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Nicolas Heimendinger, L’État contre la norme : Institutions publiques et art d’avant-garde (@cnrseditions.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) : www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/sc...
The War That Made the Middle East
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East
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Mustafa Aksakal, The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January/March 2026
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Deux comparatistes ambitieux
Introduction La mythologie comparée fait son apparition dans le cadre institutionnel des sciences humaines françaises en 1949, lorsque Georges Dumézil est élu au Collège de France pour la chaire de...
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Je signale cet intéressant article. @stuartelden.bsky.social
Deux comparatistes ambitieux
La « découverte » de la tripartition fonctionnelle par Émile Benveniste et Georges Dumézil
Silvia Frigeni
journals.openedition.org/rhsh/11378
Deux comparatistes ambitieux
La « découverte » de la tripartition fonctionnelle par Émile Benveniste et Georges Dumézil
Silvia Frigeni
journals.openedition.org/rhsh/11378
Resurrecting the Past by Sarah Griswold | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
In Resurrecting the Past, Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial front in a post-1918 fight over the French past—a contingent and contradictory but always hard-charging struggle over...
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Sarah Griswold, Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate - @cornellupress.bsky.social, September 2025
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Miranda Melcher
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Miranda Melcher
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The Recognition of Sovereignty | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Lee Manion, The Recognition of Sovereignty: Politics of Empire in Early Anglo-Scottish Literature - @universitypress.cambridge.org, October 2025
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Yes, the link appears to be not working, but I think it's a fault on the Princeton UP site.
Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being
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Ghassan Hage, Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being - @dukepress.bsky.social, October 2025. The Introduction is open access at this link www.dukeupress.edu/pierre-bourd... @anthroprofhage.bsky.social
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Melinda Cooper, Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance - Zone Books, May 2024, paperback 2026
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press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Birth of Territory
Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the cri...
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That was written between Terror and Territory (2009) www.upress.umn.edu/978081665484... and The Birth of Territory (2013) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo.... I was trying to clarify why what I was doing wasn't Schmittian, and to challenge the way he was being read increasingly in Geography and IR.
A discussion of Foucault’s newly published manuscript Les Hermaphrodites - particularly in relation to his other texts on this topic, including the Herculine Barbin memoir and his text in Arcadie progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/02/f...
Charles Péguy. Quatre conférences
In 1954, Jean Hyppolite, professor of the history of philosophy at the Sorbonne, gave these four lectures at the European University Center in Nancy. This is the only work Hyppolite devoted to the aut...
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Jean Hyppolite, Charles Péguy: Quatre conférences, ed. Giuseppe Bianco - Classiques Garnier, January 2024
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Given Time II
The long-awaited conclusion to Derrida’s seminar on the gift and time. In 1991, Jacques Derrida published the first half of a seminar delivered from 1978 to 1979 on gifts and time, but the second in...
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Jacques Derrida, Given Time II, eds. Laura Odello, Peter Szendy and Rodrigo Therezo, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, March 2026
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Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan eds. Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation - Boydell & Brewer, November 2025
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To clarify - it's the whole front matter I'd like to see - the title page, list of forthcoming volumes, and the Vorwort. But it does need to be the 1977 German edition.
I have a later reprint, and the French and English translations, but I want to recheck the original. I thought I had a copy, but... any help much appreciated. stuart.elden@warwick.ac.uk
A request - does anyone have access to the original 1977 German translation of Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol 1 - Der Wille zum Wissen, Sexualität und Wahrheit? I'd really appreciate a copy of the Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe. It has to be the 1st edition (and not the various translations).
"Foucault's Hermaphrodites – from Herculine Barbin to a planned volume of the History of Sexuality and the recently published manuscript" progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/02/f...
Situating the newly published Les Hermaphrodites from the mid 1970s in relation to his other texts on this topic.
Situating the newly published Les Hermaphrodites from the mid 1970s in relation to his other texts on this topic.
He's one of those figures who clearly made decisions about work he would do, with other options left undeveloped, but which would have been equally interesting if he'd made a different choice.
Reposted by Stuart Elden
The Warburg Library’s Subject Catalogue: ‘It doesn’t have to be scary’
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Ghosts, witches and vampires in the Warburg Library?
Our latest blog takes a Halloween-inspired look at the Library’s Subject Catalogue — the card index that helps readers find specific topics scattered across the stacks.
Discover more:
Our latest blog takes a Halloween-inspired look at the Library’s Subject Catalogue — the card index that helps readers find specific topics scattered across the stacks.
Discover more: