Monthly Archives: February 2025

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Unmaking Botany: Science & Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines – Duke University Press, April 2025

Posted on February 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Unmaking Botany: Science & Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines – Duke University Press, April 2025 The Introduction is available open access here. In Anglo-European botany, it is customary to think of the vernacular as that which … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 26: Benveniste’s late publications; Sunday Histories; beginning archival work in the United States

Posted on February 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Since the last update in December, I’ve been making some good progress on this project. The focus has mainly been on Benveniste’s work in the 1960s. But, as ever, I’ve found myself backtracking to earlier parts of his career and seeing some potentially … Continue reading →

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Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on February 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti – Journal of the History of Ideas blog – Part I and Part II In this interview, primary editors Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter speak with … Continue reading →

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Johanna Vuorelma, Irony in International Politics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024

Posted on February 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Johanna Vuorelma, Irony in International Politics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 Examines the use of ironic language among political leaders in international politics. Irony in International Politics investigates ironic language in international politics, focusing on how political leaders use irony … Continue reading →

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Sam Halvorsen (ed.), Latin American Geographies – Routledge, March 2025

Posted on February 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Sam Halvorsen (ed.), Latin American Geographies – Routledge, March 2025 Latin American Geographies introduces student readers to cutting-edge scholarship on a range of topics from Indigenous geographies to sustainable development and dependency theory. The book is written primarily by a Latin … Continue reading →

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Amin Erfani, Theatricality Beyond Disciplines – Intellect, October 2025

Posted on February 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Amin Erfani, Theatricality Beyond Disciplines – Intellect, October 2025 This book expands on theories of “theatricality” in French and critical studies, adopting a transdisciplinary approach that reaches beyond performance studies into poetry, media technology, translation, and psychoanalytic theory.  Building on Artaud’s … Continue reading →

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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World – Penguin Random House, October 2024

Posted on February 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World – Penguin Random House, October 2024 A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and … Continue reading →

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Clare O’Farrell reviews Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques (Radio Interviews) 1961-1983

Posted on February 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques (Radio Interviews) 1961-1983

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Francis Young, Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples – Cambridge University Press, May 2025

Posted on February 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Francis Young, Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples – Cambridge University Press, May 2025 The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe’s last … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Nabokov, Roman Jakobson, Marc Szeftel and The Song of Igor

Posted on February 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Superficially at least, the stories of Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) and Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) would seem to connect. Both were born in Russia – Nabokov in Saint Petersburg; Jakobson in Moscow; both went into exile after the Revolution – Nabokov in … Continue reading →

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