Monthly Archives: January 2025

Derek Sayer, Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History – Princeton University Press, January 2025

Posted on January 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Derek Sayer, Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History – Princeton University Press, January 2025 Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia’s artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the … Continue reading →

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Krista A. Milne, The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England – Oxford University Press, April 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on January 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Krista A. Milne, The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England – Oxford University Press, April 2025 The Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536-40) is widely held as the single most significant event in England’s history of the destruction and loss of … Continue reading →

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We Jung Yi, Worm-Time: Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics – Cornell University Press, December 2024

Posted on January 15, 2025 by stuartelden

We Jung Yi, Worm-Time: Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics – Cornell University Press, December 2024 Worm-Time challenges conventional narratives of the Cold War and its end, presenting an alternative cultural history based on evolving South Korean aesthetics about enduring … Continue reading →

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Shane Bobrycki, The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages – Princeton University Press, November 2024

Posted on January 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Shane Bobrycki, The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages – Princeton University Press, November 2024 By the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And … Continue reading →

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Daniela R. P. Weiner, Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys – Cornell University Press, July 2024

Posted on January 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Daniela R. P. Weiner, Teaching a Dark Chapter: History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys – Cornell University Press, July 2024 Teaching a Dark Chapter explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist/Nazi past in Italy, East Germany, and … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1972 visit to Cornell University

Posted on January 12, 2025 by stuartelden

For his initial trips to the United States, Michel Foucault was often invited by French departments. His visits to SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and 1972, and the first of his multiple visits to the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 … Continue reading →

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Aaron Aquilina, The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature – Bloomsbury, November 2024

Posted on January 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Aaron Aquilina, The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature – Bloomsbury, November 2024 Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger’s concept of ‘being-towards-death’ and proposes a new understanding of the … Continue reading →

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Harvey J. Kaye, The British Marxist Historians – John Hunt/Zer0 – reissue, September 2022

Posted on January 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Harvey J. Kaye, The British Marxist Historians – John Hunt/Zer0 – reissue, September 2022 I shared news of this reissue before. There is now a New Books network discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh. Thanks to dmf for this link.

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Steven Shapin, Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves – University of Chicago Press, November 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on January 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Steven Shapin, Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves – University of Chicago Press, November 2024 New Books discussion with Kelly Spivey – thanks to dmf for this link What we eat, who we are, … Continue reading →

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Edward Wilson-Lee, The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy – William Collins, January 2025

Posted on January 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Edward Wilson-Lee, The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy – William Collins, January 2025 ‘A deeply fascinating, sui generis book by a brilliant scholar-writer, which uses the life story of a Renaissance prodigy to … Continue reading →

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