Monthly Archives: December 2021

Originally posted on andy merrifield:
 Guy Debord has been dead twenty-seven years today. In Panegyric, his elegiac autobiography, the author of The Society of the Spectacle famously said that more than anything else his life had been marked by the…

Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Profile, November 2021 Great to see this book is now out – completed after Danchev’s untimely death by Sarah Whitfield. There is a review in The Guardian. ‘The first significant biography of the artist’ … Continue reading →

Eileen Hunt Botting (ed.), Portraits of Wollstonecraft, two volumes, Bloomsbury, May 2021 A major, and very expensive, reference work on Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft’s watershed contribution to theories of women’s human rights and her international reception by both Western and non-Western … Continue reading →

Keith Tribe, Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 – OUP, December 2021. Only expensive hardback and e-book at the moment, unfortunately. During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of … Continue reading →

Cat Moir, Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics – hardback Brill 2019; paperback Haymarket, 2020 Discussion 14 December 2021, 5pm – details and registration here Update: the stream of this discussion will be here Cat Moir’s 2020 book Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: … Continue reading →

Philosophy and the Rise of Fascism: A Symposium on Lukács’s Destruction of Reason Join us for a three-day online symposium on György Lukács’s 1954 work, The Destruction of Reason, one of the most important works of philosophy in the 20th … Continue reading →