Monthly Archives: August 2018

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Kingston Shakespeare Series Conference: Shakespeare and Derrida, 1 September 2018, Garrick’s Temple, Hampton – details here; full programme here. Registration required (£20). Papers by Nicholas Royle, Tina Chanter, Christopher Prendergast, John Joughin, Andrew Cutrofello and Howard…

John H. Zammito, The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling – University of Chicago Press, 2018 – reviewed at NDPR by Lenny Moss The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century … Continue reading →

Kélina Gotman, Choreomania: Dance and Disorder – OUP 2018 When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the disorder being described is choreomania. At once a catchall … Continue reading →

Saul Newman, Political Theology: A Critical Introduction – Polity Oct 2018 God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, … Continue reading →

The London Of Charles Dickens: Mapped – not new, but new to me. An interesting mapping project of Dickens’s life and novels. Charles Dickens is intimately associated with London like no other author. The city features in all of his novels, … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Foucault and Nietzsche A Critical Encounter edited by Joseph Westfall and Alan Rosenberg, due out with Bloomsbury in February 2018. Looks great, but what a shame about the prohibitive price. Foucault’s intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche…

Critical Perspectives on Migration in the Twenty-First Century – open access book from E-IR Thousands of people risk their lives daily by crossing borders in search of a better life. During 2015, over one million of these people arrived in … Continue reading →