Monthly Archives: January 2025

Peter Antich, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception, Routledge, December 2024 and review at NDPR

Posted on January 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Peter Antich, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception, Routledge, December 2024 Review at NDPR by Jack Reynolds This book draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to develop new and promising solutions to contemporary debates about perception. In providing an extension and defense of Merleau-Ponty’s … Continue reading →

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Mark Lawrence, Western Europe’s Small Wars and Counterinsurgencies Since Napoleon: After the Great Wars – Springer, December 2024

Posted on January 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Mark Lawrence, Western Europe’s Small Wars and Counterinsurgencies Since Napoleon: After the Great Wars – Springer, December 2024 This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the periphery of geo-politics at the heart of Europe’s ‘new’ military history. … Continue reading →

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John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology – University of Minnesota Press, March 2025

Posted on January 3, 2025 by stuartelden

John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology – University of Minnesota Press, March 2025 A wide-ranging examination of the roots—and possible future—of violence in human societies Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human … Continue reading →

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David Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology – University of Minnesota Press, November 2024

Posted on January 2, 2025 by stuartelden

David Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology – University of Minnesota Press, November 2024 An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues … Continue reading →

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Books I’m looking forward to in 2025

Posted on January 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Some of the academic books I’m looking forward to in 2025: Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism (Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers) Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949-1951, trans. Chris Turner, ed. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys (Seagull) … Continue reading →

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