Monthly Archives: April 2025

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space & Politics, Vol I & II – launch event, 6-9 May 2025

Posted on April 23, 2025 by stuartelden
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Michel Foucault, Binswanger and Existential Analysis, ed. Elisabetta Basso, trans. Marie Satya McDonough – Columbia University Press, July 2025

Posted on April 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Binswanger and Existential Analysis, ed. Elisabetta Basso, trans. Marie Satya McDonough – Columbia University Press, July 2025, with foreword by Bernard Harcourt Really good to see the translation of this important volume scheduled. In the early 1950s, the … Continue reading →

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Michael Lazarus, Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx – Stanford University Press, June 2025

Posted on April 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Lazarus, Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx – Stanford University Press, June 2025 Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face … Continue reading →

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Foucault at Buffalo in 1970 and 1972: The Desire for Knowledge; The Criminal in Literature; and The History of Truth

Posted on April 20, 2025 by stuartelden

I have discussed Foucault’s two visits to Buffalo before. First, most briefly, in Foucault: The Birth of Power (2017). In that book, which is on the first half of the 1970s, I simply indicated that Foucault gave some lectures in Buffalo (pp. … Continue reading →

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Gert-Jan van de Heiden, Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy: The Outcast and the Spirit – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on April 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Gert-Jan van de Heiden, Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy: The Outcast and the Spirit – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 (print and open access)

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Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps – MIT Press, 2024 (print and open access) and review at NDPR

Posted on April 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps – MIT Press, May 2024 (print and open access) review at NDPR by Ben Blumson The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what … Continue reading →

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Fifteen ‘Sunday Histories’ on Progressive Geographies

Posted on April 17, 2025 by stuartelden

There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the … Continue reading →

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Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, paperback May 2024

Posted on April 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, paperback May 2024 Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar … Continue reading →

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Gavin Lucas and Shannon Lee Dawdy (eds.), Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart – Routledge, April 2025

Posted on April 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Gavin Lucas and Shannon Lee Dawdy (eds.), Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart – Routledge, April 2025 Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds. Although archaeologists have … Continue reading →

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Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction – Oxford University Press, November 2025

Posted on April 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction – Oxford University Press, November 2025 Human geography offers answers to some of the most important challenges of our time. To understand contemporary struggles over global economic inequality, forced … Continue reading →

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