Monthly Archives: June 2024

Somogy Varga, Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry: A Philosophical Analysis – Cambridge Univesity Press, May 2024 After its unparalleled rise and expansion over the past century, medicine is increasingly criticized both as a science and clinical practice for lacking … Continue reading →

David Lay Williams, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx – Princeton University Press, Sept/Oct 2024 Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often … Continue reading →

Louise Boyle, Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety – Routledge, June 2024 Anxious Geographies offers a unique perspective on social anxiety, framing it as both a social and spatial phenomenon. Through a meticulous exploration using online questionnaires and interviews, the book … Continue reading →

Melanie Lombard and Philipp Horn, Urban Informality: An Introduction – Bristol University Press, June 2024 This book is the first to provide an introductory overview to the concept of ‘urban informality’, taking an international perspective across the global North and … Continue reading →

Nathan Schlanger, L’Invention de la technologie: Une histoire intellectuelle avec André Leroi-Gourhan – PUF, January 2023 According to this interview with Stefanos Geroulanos, an English translation is forthcoming. La technologie, entendue comme la discipline qui étudie les techniques, prend son … Continue reading →

Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction – University of Minnesota Press, September 2024 Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned … Continue reading →

Journal of the History of Ideas interview – The Concepts that Made Prehistory: An Interview with Stefanos Geroulanos Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Professor of History at New York University. At the center of Geroulanos’s work has been … Continue reading →

Paul Muldoon, The Penitent State: Exposure, Mourning and the Biopolitics of National Healing – Oxford University Press, September 2023 This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are … Continue reading →

Henry Somers-Hall, Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy – Cambridge University Press, paperback April 2024 This book proposes a radical new reading of the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. Henry Somers-Hall argues that the central unifying aspect of works … Continue reading →