Monthly Archives: March 2019

Books received – Heidegger, Jazeel and Legg, Duarte, Delay, Lentz, Baganato, Ferrari and Pasqual

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

The latest volume of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, Vier Hefte I und II, Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg (eds.), Subaltern Geographies, Fábio Duarte, Space, Place and Territory, Steven Delay, Phenomenology in France, Christian C. Lentz, Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell, The Cudgel and the Caress: Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness – SUNY Press, March 2019

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell, The Cudgel and the Caress: Reflections on Cruelty and Tenderness – SUNY Press, 2019 I shared news of Krell’s recent The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter a couple of days ago. Thanks to Ron Sexton for commenting that he … Continue reading →

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Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty – Manchester University Press, May 2019

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty – Manchester University Press, 2019 Renowned politics scholar Jenny Edkins explores the imperative for change in a world filled with inequality, violence, persecution, and injustice–and the difficulties of bringing it about. How … Continue reading →

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John Protevi, Edges of the State – University of Minnesota Press, Forerunner, April 2019

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

John Protevi, Edges of the State – University of Minnesota Press, Forerunner, 2019 This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws … Continue reading →

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Christian Abrahamsson, Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought _ U Nebraska Press, 2018, with preface by Gunnar Olsson

Posted on March 28, 2019 by stuartelden

Christian Abrahamsson, Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought – University of Nebraska Press, 2018, with preface by Gunnar Olsson In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth and Parresia, University of Chicago Press, 2019

Posted on March 28, 2019 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth and Parresia, University of Chicago Press, 2019 edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, English edition established by Nancy Luxon This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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Erik Daryl Meyer, Inner Animalities: Theology and the End of the Human – Fordham UP, 2018 and book forum

Posted on March 27, 2019 by stuartelden

Erik Daryl Meyer, Inner Animalities: Theology and the End of the Human – Fordham UP and book forum at An Und Für Sich Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter – Bloomsbury, 2019

Posted on March 27, 2019 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter – Bloomsbury, 2019 Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, … Continue reading →

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Richard Horton, ‘Frantz Fanon and the origins of global health’, The Lancet (open access)

Posted on March 25, 2019 by stuartelden

Richard Horton, ‘Frantz Fanon and the origins of global health’, The Lancet (open access)

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Open access monographs: perspectives from university presses

Posted on March 25, 2019 by stuartelden

Open access monographs: perspectives from university presses – at WONKHE As Research England formulates a requirement for open access monographs in future Research Excellence Frameworks (REFs), let us consider how university presses publish single-subject, often single-author, scholarly works and participate in … Continue reading →

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