Monthly Archives: June 2024

Nick Nesbitt, Reading Capital’s Materialist Dialectic: Marx, Spinoza and the Althusserians – Brill, May 2024 (print and open access) While the explicit Althusserian engagement with Marx’s Capital remained largely limited to Reading Capital, after 1968, Nick Nesbitt argues, this theoretical intervention remained … Continue reading →

Olivia Weisser (ed.), Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis – Routledge, March 2024 Part of the Routledge series – Guides to Using Historical Sources This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection … Continue reading →

Strabo’s Geography: A Translation for the Modern World, trans. Sarah Pothecary – Princeton University Press, June/August 2024 Strabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about taming elephants, collecting … Continue reading →

Danielle Rosvally, Theatres of Value: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City – SUNY Press, July 2024 Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these … Continue reading →

Jacques Rancière on Eric Hazan at Sidecar – Grand Éditeur There is an infinitely reductive way of commemorating Eric Hazan, simply by saluting him as a courageous publisher and defender of the radical left, an unyielding supporter of the rights … Continue reading →

Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Afterword by Martin Jay, edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott, Verso Books, July 2024 Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time Marxist … Continue reading →