Monthly Archives: January 2025

Jakob Norberg, Schopenhauer’s Politics – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on January 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Jakob Norberg, Schopenhauer’s Politics – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) lived through an era of great political turmoil, but previous assessments of his political thought have portrayed him as a pessimistic observer with no constructive solutions to … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 100 years of Gilles Deleuze – Edinburgh University Press

Posted on January 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Celebrating 100 years of Gilles Deleuze – Edinburgh University Press In the centenary year of his birth, we celebrate the impact of Gilles Deleuze, one of the greats of twentieth-century philosophy.  We kick off on the birthday itself – the 18th … Continue reading →

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Brandon Bloch, Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy – Harvard University Press, May 2025

Posted on January 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Brandon Bloch, Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy – Harvard University Press, May 2025 A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for … Continue reading →

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Sander Verhaegh (ed.), American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration: Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory – De Gruyter, 2025 (open access)

Posted on January 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Sander Verhaegh (ed.), American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration: Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory – De Gruyter, 2025 (open access) How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of American philosophy? … Continue reading →

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Alyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature – Princeton University Press, August 2025

Posted on January 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Alyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature – Princeton University Press, August 2025 Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, … Continue reading →

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Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Childhood, Pain and Emotion: A Modern British Medical History – Cambridge University Press, April 2025 

Posted on January 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Childhood, Pain and Emotion: A Modern British Medical History – Cambridge University Press, April 2025  Situated between the history of pain, history of childhood and history of emotions, this innovative work explores cultural understandings of children’s pain, from … Continue reading →

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Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe – special issue of Borders in Globalization Review (open access)

Posted on January 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe – special issue of Borders in Globalization Review (open access) Guest editors Johanna Jaschik, Machteld Venken, and Birte Wassenberg bring time into border studies with this new collection, Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe, featuring 12 research … Continue reading →

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Benveniste and the Linguistic Circle of Prague

Posted on January 19, 2025 by stuartelden

There are some good histories of the Linguistic Circle of Prague, which met in the years before the Second World War, and which included Russian scholars as well as ones from Czechoslovakia. Jindřich Toman’s The Magic of a Common Language is a particularly … Continue reading →

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Ned Richardson-Little, The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State – Bloomsbury, August 2025

Posted on January 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Ned Richardson-Little, The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State – Bloomsbury, August 2025 This book is a succinct yet comprehensive history of East Germany which provides a differentiated picture of the communist state. It … Continue reading →

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James Q. Whitman, From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World – Cambridge University Press, November 2024

Posted on January 17, 2025 by stuartelden

James Q. Whitman, From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, … Continue reading →

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