Monthly Archives: March 2024

Georg Löfflmann, The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity – Routledge, March 2024

Georg Löfflmann, The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity – Routledge, March 2024 Very expensive hardback and e-book only at this time. This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind … Continue reading

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

A revised and expanded version of this post is here as part of the Sunday histories series. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in the years before the Second World War, … Continue reading

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Key Words Preview: Introduction to The Raymond Williams Centenary Issue

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Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western … Continue reading

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Rok Benčin, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity – Edinburgh University Press, print and open access, January 2024

Rok Benčin, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity – Edinburgh University Press, print and open access, January 2024

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Domenico Losurdo, Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy – trans. David Broder, Verso, April 2024

Domenico Losurdo, Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy – trans. David Broder, Verso, April 2024 The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers’ movements, according to Domenico Losurdo. … Continue reading

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