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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 .. more

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10h

Both an editor and translator of Émile Benveniste claim he read Derrida’s 1967 book De la grammatologie, and that notes in his archives prove it. I’m not so sure – the notes are on an article by Derrida, and I explain why I think this, and what this means
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Did Benveniste read Derrida’s Of Grammatology?

Jacques Derrida was certainly a careful reader of Émile Benveniste. He wrote a critique of Benveniste in “Le supplément de copule. La philosophie devant la linguistique” which appeared in 1971, in …

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Reposted by Keith Lilley

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way - @profilebooks.bsky.social, August 2025; @uchicagopress.bsky.social, October 2025
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Earth Shapers

The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings. Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders—these are some of the features th...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

André Laks, Plato's Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws - @princetonupress.bsky.social, paperback September 2025
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Plato's Second Republic

An argument for why Plato’s Laws can be considered his most important political dialogue

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Reposted by Fabián Muniesa

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Daniel J. Sherman, Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890–1940 - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, May 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Sarah Mills
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Sensations

Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline’s scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention. For well over a century...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d

Andres Saenz de Sicilia ed. Marx and the Critique of Humanism - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, February 2026
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Marx and the Critique of Humanism

What is the status of 'the human' and 'humanism' in Marx's thought? Does Marx's critical project rest upon 'humanist' commitments? If so, what are these and how…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political - @edinburghup.bsky.social, paperback 2025
Ten years after its initial publication, this book is finally available in paperback.
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The Invention of a People

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 3d

Leovino Madriaga Garcia, Ricoeur's Early Ethical Philosophy: Explorations of Responsibility and Hope - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social , September 2025
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Cover of book, blue with white writing, and small inset painting (perhaps an owl?)

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

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

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

Some excerpts available here
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parts available online with subscription
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Clémence Ramnoux, une trajectoire normalienne

À l’occasion de la parution aux éditions Rue d’Ulm de Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

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
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Cover of book, with photograph of Ramnoux

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 4d

Andrew Alexander Davis and Sebastian Rand eds., New Perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Right - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, August 2025
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New Perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Right

This collection of new perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Right breaks down some of the most stubborn barriers between the book and its readers. From its pol…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

Books received – Levinas, de Menasce, Braudel, Bloch and Febvre

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Books received – Levinas, de Menasce, Braudel, Bloch and Febvre

Books relating to the new interest in stories of French academics who spent time in German prisoner of war camps, a book about Émile Benveniste’s former student Jean de Menasce (see here), an…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

Including Ari Jerrems, The Spatial Limits of Political Community
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and the final volume of Georges Canguilhem, Oeuvres complètes
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The Spatial Limits of Political Community

The Spatial Limits of Political Community - Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain; Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell ...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d

Books received – Canguilhem, Jerrems, Hayter and Harvey, Leary-Owhin

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Books received – Canguilhem, Jerrems, Hayter and Harvey, Leary-Owhin

The final volume of Georges Canguilhem, Oeuvres complètes, Ari Jerrems, The Spatial Limits of Political Community, Teresa Hayter and David Harvey, The Factory and the City: The Story of the Cowley …

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025
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The Drowned

This book addresses with forensic attention the external, internal, and historical geographies of the fatally drowned.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d

@andrekeil.bsky.social, Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German History - @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, January 2026
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Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German History

Dictatorships and Authoritarianism in Modern German History provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the history of dictatorships in Germany since the…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 7d

From a Watershed to the Parting of the Waters: A Note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/05/f...

From a Watershed to the Parting of the Waters: A Note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown

Back in November 2014, while I was researching Foucault’s Last Decade, I wrote “A minor note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown: From a watershed to the parting of the waters” for th…

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 8d

Kaveh Boveiri, Marxian Totality - @haymarketbooks.org, July 2025
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Marxian Totality

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Reposted by Stuart Elden, Lesley A. Hall, Margot C. Finn

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 9d

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 9d

Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds, Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic - @yalebooks.bsky.social, September 2025
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Unfrozen - Yale University Press London

A vital account of the state of the Arctic today—emphasising the twin dangers of climate change and geopolitical competition Nowhere is the dual...

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Reposted by Stuart Elden

Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social · 10d

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Claude Raffestin, le boxeur de la doxa - - UNIGE

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10d

Peter Sloterdijk, If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color - trans. Corey Anderson Dansereau and Robert Hughes, @politybooks.bsky.social, June 2025
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If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color

If You Have Never Thought Gray: A Theory of Color, In this exceptionally original book, Peter Sloterdijk follows the grey thread through the history of philosophy, art and culture. Storms, sea mist an...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10d

Jen Rose Smith, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic - @dukepress.bsky.social, May 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Chrystel Oloukoi.
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Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11d

Jean de Menasce’s dedication to Émile Benveniste – “in memory of the year of exile”
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Jean de Menasce’s dedication to Émile Benveniste – “in memory of the year of exile”

I already knew that Jean de Menasce dedicated his edition and translation of the 9th century Zoroastrian theological text Škand-Gumānīk Vičār to Émile Benveniste. Benveniste had taug…

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Reposted by John Hogan

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11d

Laurie Parsons, Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse
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Climate Hegemony | LSE Press

This book is part of the <a href="https://press.lse.ac.uk/rgs-ibg-series" target="_blank">RGS-IBG Book Series</a> </sp...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11d

Julian Brigstocke, Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power
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Nonauthoritarian Authority | LSE Press

This book is part of the <a href="https://press.lse.ac.uk/rgs-ibg-series" target="_blank">RGS-IBG Book Series</a> ISSN: Print: 2996...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11d

RGS-IBG book series relaunch with LSE Press
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RGS-IBG Series | LSE Press

Descrition of the partnership between LSE Press and the Royal Geographical Society  (with the Institute of British Geographers)

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Reposted by Keith Lilley

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12d

James George Lowder, Anthropocene Cosmographies: A Human Geography of the Earth and Outer Space - Routledge, February 2026
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part of the Routledge Planetary Spaces series, edited by Kimberly Peters
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Anthropocene Cosmographies: A Human Geography of the Earth and Outer Space

This book explores relationships between humans and outer space through a geographical lens in the context of the Anthropocene. Presenting a bold and diverse engagement with outer space, the book expa...

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Reposted by Stuart Elden, Katherine Brickell

Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 13d

Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026...

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@jbrigstocke.bsky.social

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A book cover for Julian Brigstocke's forthcoming book 'Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materially and the Aesthetics of Power' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white aerial photograph of a large crowd in the background.

A book cover for Laurie Parson's forthcoming book 'Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white photograph of three people riding on a scooter above a body of water filled with litter.

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