Monthly Archives: August 2024

Luke O’Sullivan, Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, July 2024

Luke O’Sullivan, Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, July 2024 Just an expensive hardback and e-book at the moment.

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‘Foucault Before the Collège de France’, Theory, Culture & Society special issue – all papers currently free to access

If you missed the 2023 Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society on ‘Foucault Before the Collège de France‘, which I edited with Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera… All papers are open access or free access at the moment Papers … Continue reading

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Maan Barua, Plantation Worlds – Duke University Press, August 2024

Maan Barua, Plantation Worlds – Duke University Press, August 2024 The Introduction is open access at this link In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua … Continue reading

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Paula Landerreche Cardillo and Rachel Silverbloom (eds.), Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero’s Political Thought – SUNY Press, 2024

Paula Landerreche Cardillo and Rachel Silverbloom (eds.), Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero’s Political Thought – SUNY Press, 2024 The Editors’ Introduction is open access The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero. “Landerreche Cardillo and Silverbloom are right to … Continue reading

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Andrew Krinks, White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalisation – NYU Press, August 2024

Andrew Krinks, White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalisation – NYU Press, August 2024 Uncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples Most popular critical accounts of mass … Continue reading

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Shakespeare and the Reactionary Mind: Counterrevolution Fascism Militarism – Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 31 August 2024

Shakespeare and the Reactionary Mind: Counterrevolution, Fascism, Militarism – Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 31 August 2024 Coming up soon… Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton, TW12 2EJ, United Kingdom Speakers – John Gillies, Amy Lidster, Björn Quiring, Jennifer … Continue reading

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Hannah Lucas, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being – Columbia University Press, January 2025 

Hannah Lucas, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being – Columbia University Press, January 2025  The medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–after 1416) is the first known woman to author a book in the English language, recognized today for … Continue reading

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Working on the proofs of the critical edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna – forthcoming in December 2024 with HAU books

It has taken a long time to get to this stage, but I’m now working on the proofs of the critical edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty – forthcoming in December 2024 with … Continue reading

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Books received – The Anti-Security Collective, Barthes, de Beistegui, Duchesne-Guillemin, Nabokov, JHI, Barua, Dumézil

A pile of recently bought or sent books including The Anti-Security Collective, The Security Abolition Manifesto, Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Zoroastre, Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of The Song of Igor’s Campaign, the most recent issue of the … Continue reading

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Tamara Caraus, Militant Cosmopolitics: Another World Horizon – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024 (paperback)

now in paperback – Tamara Caraus, Militant Cosmopolitics: Another World Horizon – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

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