Monthly Archives: March 2024

La Toupie folle – The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts Our research project, The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts funded by a Small Grant from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, concerns, as its primary object, an issue of the journal Recherches(number 13) from December … Continue reading →

The geographer Gillian Rose with some Tips for planning research leave

“I’ve learnt from Arendt the necessity – as well as dangers – of speaking your mind.” Thanks to Dave Beer for the link. The book being discussed is Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in … Continue reading →

Marta Faustino and Hélder Telo (eds.) Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments – Brill, March 2024 Some interesting looking chapters from a good range of people, but a terrible price, where the e-book is even more expensive than … Continue reading →

William K. Carroll (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci – Edward Elgar, January 2024 You can probably guess from ‘companion’ that this is an interesting-looking collection at a crazy price… Affirming Antonio Gramsci’s continuing influence, this adroitly cultivated Companion offers … Continue reading →

Gerd Carling, Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological Guide – Routledge, May 2024 Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for understanding the conceptual foundations and practical … Continue reading →

Learning lessons from the cyber-attack – British Library update and 18 page report, 8 March 2024 Today, we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place against the British Library last October. Our hope is that doing this will … Continue reading →

Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, forthcoming 2024 (can’t find a precise date, so will update with further details later) Update October 2024: Now published and available open access as pdf. Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant … Continue reading →

Alison M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing: A History – Oxford University Press, October 2022, now available open access Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the … Continue reading →

In the final years of his life, Michel Foucault often used the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, a small Dominican library in Paris, for his work. I’ve never had a reason to visit before, but today I spent the morning there, looking … Continue reading →