Monthly Archives: January 2025

Alexander Aerts, “Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Alexander Aerts, “Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog In 1918 the Russian-French philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) was caught selling soap on the black-market in Moscow by the Tchèka, the political police … Continue reading

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Mathelinda Nabugodi, Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic – UCL Press, January 2023 (open access)

Mathelinda Nabugodi, Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic – UCL Press, January 2023 (open access) *Yet what surprises me most of all at this time is that what I have written consists, as it were, almost entirely of quotations. – … Continue reading

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Kevin B. Anderson, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism – Verso, March 2025

Kevin B. Anderson, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism – Verso, March 2025 The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism. In his late writings, Marx went beyond the … Continue reading

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Jenny Edkins, Maja Zehfuss and Thomas Gregory (eds.), Global Politics: A New Introduction 4th Edition – Routledge, 2025

Jenny Edkins, Maja Zehfuss and Thomas Gregory (eds.), Global Politics: A New Introduction 4th Edition – Routledge, 2025 Global Politics: A New Introduction engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. From that … Continue reading

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Melayna Kay Lamb, A Philosophical History of Police Power – Bloomsbury, February 2024, paperback September 2025

Melayna Kay Lamb, A Philosophical History of Police Power – Bloomsbury, February 2024, paperback September 2025 Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police … Continue reading

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Paula Diehl and Michael Saward, Bodies, Spaces, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation – Oxford University Press, February 2025

Paula Diehl and Michael Saward, Bodies, Spaces, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation – Oxford University Press, February 2025 There is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, and even celebrities appear in public, they make … Continue reading

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Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025

Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025 A luminous biography of one of the 20th century’s most influential historians Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across … Continue reading

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Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940): an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology

One of the challenges with my current project on Indo-European thought in France is how male-dominated it is. If you look at a photograph of the professors of the Collège de France in 1967, you can perhaps see why. It wasn’t much better at the … Continue reading

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Christopher Burke and Adam Tamas Tuboly, Otto Neurath in Britain – Cambridge University Press, January 2025

Christopher Burke and Adam Tamas Tuboly, Otto Neurath in Britain – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 Otto Neurath (1882–1945) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist and political economist, and one of the most multi-faceted and creative thinkers in the … Continue reading

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Tom Arnold-Forster, Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography – Princeton University Press, June 2025

Tom Arnold-Forster, Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography – Princeton University Press, June 2025 Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he shaped ideas about liberalism … Continue reading

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