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Stuart Elden
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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
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François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle - La Découverte/Delcourt 2025
www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/se...
Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the link
Cover of book, with graphic novel style drawings of Foucault, Baudrillard and others
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Foucault Studies 38 published, including a theme section on Foucault and Nietzsche, and a 'Buffalo dossier' (all open access)
muse.jhu.edu/journal/891 (1/3)
Cover image shows Édouard Manet, The Port of Bordeaux, 1871
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 30 - archive work in Paris, Bern and Cambridge, MA, and Benveniste's library
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A composite image of the Unitobler building, Bern Universität, the inside of the Sprachwissenschaft library and the outside of the Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, with a sticker saying 'Ex Libris Emile Benveniste'
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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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...
The covers of three books - the French and English editions of the Herculine Barbin memoir, and the posthumous Les Hermaphrodites
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan eds. Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation - Boydell & Brewer, November 2025
boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...
Cover of the book, with image showing humans and animals, and a centaur - taken from British Library MS Cotton Vitellius CIII, f. 19
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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"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.
Covers of three books - the French and English editions of the Herculine Barbin memoir, and the posthumous Les Hermaphrodites
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d...
@davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.
The covers of Harvey's books Consciousness and the Urban Experience and Paris, Capital of Modernity
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Fairly sure it's the basis for the book, though two things worth noting: he defended typed theses (whereas Ramnoux had it pre-published for the defence), and in Axelos's case there was a gap between thesis and book (1959-62). So it's possible it is different. Axelos's archive is at the ENS...
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Looking for something else, discovered that French philosophy doctoral defences were regularly listed in Les Études philosophiques. Here's Foucault's, which doesn't tell us anything we didn't know from Didier Eribon's biography, but was still interesting to see.
www.jstor.org/stable/20843...
Details of the defences of Jean Brun and Michel Foucault in April and May 1961. Full text in link provided.
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Joseph Falaky Nagy reviews the new edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, trans. Derek Coltman, ed. Stuart Elden, from Hau Books in Journal of Folklore Research Reviews.

scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
Cover of Mitra-Varuna, with left 2/3 of page in black with white title and details; right 1/3 of page showing a marked up page of text with handwritten annotations by the editor
October 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation - Oxford University Press, 2025
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NDPR review
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/race...
Cover of book with image of lithograph of jazz musicians (WPA Rhythm Band by Elizabeth Olds)
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Joseph Petek and Brian G. Henning eds. Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927 – @edinburghup.bsky.social, August 2025

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October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms - Bloomsbury, December 2024
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-the-po...

Book launch, University of Bristol 22 October 2025
www.bristol.ac.uk/events/#even...
Cover of book, with Karl Blossfeldt photograph of a plan with upright stalk and tightly coiled tendrils - it almost looks like it could be made of metal.
October 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Leovino Madriaga Garcia, Ricoeur's Early Ethical Philosophy: Explorations of Responsibility and Hope - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social , September 2025
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ricoeurs-...
Cover of book, blue with white writing, and small inset painting (perhaps an owl?)
October 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Ramnoux's Œuvres were published a few years ago, in a lovely two-volume edition, with an introduction by Rossella Saetta Cottone.
www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/978235... (3/3)
The two volumes of the Oeuvres, in a blue diagonal box
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, Bachelard (avec des inédits de Clémence Ramnoux) - Éditions Rue d’Ulm, October 2025
presses.ens.psl.eu/cl%C3%A9menc... (1/3)
Cover of book, with photograph of Ramnoux
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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A new short essay about books written by French professors while prisoners of war in World War II, and the Université de Captivité in Oflag XVII-A
progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/28/b...
A composite image of four of the books mentioned in the post, by Cavaillès, Ruyer, Ellenberger and Wolff
September 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Katja Diefenbach, Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy: Speculative Materialism - trans. Gerrit Jackson, @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...
Cover of book - white and grey with a crest in bottom right corner
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Robert St. Clair, Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Constellations of Loss in Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert - Oxford University Press, July 2025
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September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Michael J. Shapiro, Thinking Outside the Canon: Political Theory as Textual Odyssey - Oxford University Press, October 2025
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Cover of book with image of Scylla and Charybdis myth in brown and orange
September 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Duncan Kelly, Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics - Oxford University Press, November 2025
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A major study, of a massive topic - 784 pages!
Cover of book, Worlds of Wartime - image of a Vorticism painting (I don't know the specific details)
September 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek
One volume was published in 2022, but three more are now announced. @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-e...
screenshot from the website, showing four books in the series
September 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Nicholas Allen, Late Heaney - Oxford University Press, January 2026
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Cover of book with drawing of Heaney by Colin Davidson
September 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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A new post about Roman Jakobson’s two series of 1972 lectures at the Collège de France, using all the sources I can find about their dating, topics and archival traces, and his friendships with Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan
progressivegeographies.com/2025/08/31/r...
A photograph of Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss and an unknown woman, taken at one of the lectures
August 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander, Anders Richardt Jørgensen eds. Indo-European Ecologies: Cattle and Milk - Snakes and Water - Stockholm University Press, 2025
stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1...
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August 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM