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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 · 3d
Georges Dumézil's 1924 account of the Tutankhamun discovery progressivegeographies.com/2026/09/20/g...
Georges Dumézil’s journalism and his 1924 account of the Tutankhamun discovery
In November 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter first opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor. In March 1924, the French comparative mythologist Georges Duméz…
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 7h
We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/47fu2b0
The British Academy and Wolfson Foundation launch new search for exceptional early-career researchers as funding confirmed for new Fellowships
The British Academy is delighted to announce another round of funding from the Wolfson Foundation for early career research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 8h
The French edition appeared in early 2024 - La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie - www.vrin.fr/livre/978271...
La constitution d'un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel - Mémoire du diplôme d'études supérieures de philosophie | Collection Bibliothèque d'Histoire de la Philosoph...
Découvrez l'ouvrage La constitution d'un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel | Collection Bibliothèque d'Histoire de la Philosophie
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 9h
I also discuss the thesis in The Early Foucault (Polity, 2021) www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social
The Early Foucault
The Early Foucault, It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 9h
Pierre Macherey has written about this in a piece translated in Theory, Culture and Society - "Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?". trans. Susan Ruddick journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... (part of a theme issue on Foucault before the Collège de France).
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 10h
Michel Foucault, The Constitution of a Historical
Transcendental in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”: Graduate Thesis in Philosophy, 1949 – ed. Christophe Bouton, trans. Emilio E. Feijóo
No cover yet, but scheduled for August 2027
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The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel’s
The first English translation of Foucault’s previously lost master’s thesis, itself an original contribution to the study of Hegel’s philosophy.On June 11, 1949, a twenty-three-year-old Michel Foucaul...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12h
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World - @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, September 2026
www.penguin.co.uk/books/480399... @naomiaklein.bsky.social
End Times Fascism
The far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12h
Robin M. LeBlanc, Proprietors for a Democratic City: Space and Political Voice in Italy - University of Minnesota Press, November 2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Proprietors for a Democratic City
Lessons from Bologna on how ordinary people take charge of urban spaces and make their cities more democraticProprietors for a Democratic City examines how n...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 13h
“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson https://www.publicbooks.org/the-poetics-of-social-forms-remembering-fredric-jameson-1934-2024/
“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Peter Johnson (Michel Serres: Ecology) @peterj5319.bsky.social · 1d
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Hi Stuart
My new book:

“In my reading, this is the best introduction to Serres’ complex, imaginative, and profound thinking ..."
Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021).

more information:
michelserresclimatecrisis.com

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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 1d
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026.
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#Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d
This is big news - the publication of a mid-1970s manuscript, planned for the original thematic version of the History of Sexuality, but abandoned and unfinished as that series changed direction. Foucault lectured on this material in Les Anormaux/Abnormal in 1975.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d
Michel Foucault, La Croisade des enfants - ed. Arianna Sforzini with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Flammarion, October 2026
editions.flammarion.com/la-croisade-...
Cover of book, light blue background, with black and white photograph of Foucault in a turtle-neck top.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d
Yuriko Furuhata, Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time – @dukepress.bsky.social, September 2026
dukeupress.edu/Archives-of-... Introduction open access at this link
Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 2d
How Karel Kosík's classic *Dialectics of the Concrete* assists in parsing contemporary debates on conjuncturalism and totality in and beyond economic geography - blogging with @chrishesketh.bsky.social on our new article in Progress in Human Geography @stuartelden.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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