Monthly Archives: June 2023

Stéphane François, Nazi Occultism: Between the SS and Esotericism, trans Eriks Uskalis, Routledge, March 2023 Nazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation. The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier … Continue reading →

Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human, Joseph Pugliese online book talk, 23 June 2023 registration free but required via Eventbrite The Emergent Nonfiction Lab at the University of Warwick welcomes Jospeh Pugliese for this talk and discussion on his book Biopolitics of … Continue reading →

Keith Tribe, Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 – Oxford University Press, April 2022 An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics  During the late nineteenth century concerns about international … Continue reading →

A Cornelius Castoriadis Forum – Journal of the History of Ideas blog For the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), the creative power of imagination was best described in volcanic terms. Much more than a mental faculty that would store and … Continue reading →

David Zimmerman, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR – University of Toronto Press, January 2023 In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to … Continue reading →

Peter Baldwin, Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All – MIT Press, 2023 The book is available to buy in print and open access A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current … Continue reading →

Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics: A New Translation and Commentary, ed. Christopher Johns – Edinburgh University Press, April 2023

Teologia politica oggi? A cura di Elettra Stimilli e Arthur Bradley – Quodlibet, 2023 Nel 1922 Carl Schmitt pubblica il famoso saggio Teologia politica. L’intento di questo libro è quello di interrogarsi sul testo di Schmitt, esattamente cento anni dopo la … Continue reading →