Monthly Archives: October 2024

Heinrich Meier, Nietzsche’s Legacy: Ecce Homo and The Antichrist, Two Books on Nature and Politics – University of Chicago Press, trans. Justin Gottschalk, March 2024, and review at NDPR

Posted on October 19, 2024 by stuartelden

Heinrich Meier, Nietzsche’s Legacy: Ecce Homo and The Antichrist, Two Books on Nature and Politics – University of Chicago Press, trans. Justin Gottschalk, March 2024 I’ve posted about this book before, but it is reviewed by Joshua Fox at NDPR … Continue reading →

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Nat Dyer, Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray – Bristol University Press, November 2024

Posted on October 18, 2024 by stuartelden

Nat Dyer, Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray – Bristol University Press, November 2024 From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where … Continue reading →

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Henk de Berg and Cat Moir (eds.), Rethinking Ernst Bloch – Haymarket, October 2024

Posted on October 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Henk de Berg and Cat Moir (eds.), Rethinking Ernst Bloch – Haymarket, October 2024 Rethinking Ernst Bloch offers a critical reassessment of the thought of Ernst Bloch, best-known for his groundbreaking study The Principle of Hope and one of the most significant European thinkers and … Continue reading →

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British Library update

Posted on October 17, 2024 by stuartelden

British Library update – more of the collection available, remote ordering possible, with more detail here. My anecdotal experience recently, in the two rooms I’ve used most over the past few years (Rare Books and Asian and African Studies) is … Continue reading →

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Wim Carton and Andreas Malm, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown – Verso, October 2024

Posted on October 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Wim Carton and Andreas Malm, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown – Verso, October 2024 A devastating critique of the forces propelling us beyond critical temperature limits, by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline The … Continue reading →

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Sharad Chari, Apartheid Remains – Duke University Press, 2024 (open access introduction; New Books discussion)

Posted on October 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Sharad Chari, Apartheid Remains – Duke University Press, May 2024 The introduction is open access here New Books discussion with Geoffrey Gordon – thanks to dmf for this link In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of … Continue reading →

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Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence -Cambridge University Press, February 2025 

Posted on October 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence – Cambridge University Press, February 2025  What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 24: Emile Benveniste’s archives of teaching and publishing, the Festschrift, and the Alexandre Koyré side-project

Posted on October 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Since the last update in September, I’ve continued working on the chapter of this project which looks at Benveniste and Dumézil’s parallel teaching careers at the Collège de France, through the 1950s and 1960s. This is the planned topic of an online Social … Continue reading →

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Disalienation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Camille Robcis – Journal of the History of Ideas blog (audio)

Posted on October 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Disalienation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Camille Robcis – Journal of the History of Ideas blog (audio)

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Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy – Columbia University Press, November 2024

Posted on October 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy – Columbia University Press, November 2024 To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, … Continue reading →

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