Monthly Archives: June 2025

Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco and Valentina Surace (eds.), Political Ontology, Community and Institutions – SUNY Press, May 2025

Laura Cremonesi, Rita Fulco and Valentina Surace (eds.), Political Ontology, Community and Institutions – SUNY Press, May 2025 Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito’s thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors … Continue reading

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Pierre Yves-Testenoire, Les cours de Roman Jakobson à l’École Libre des Hautes Études: New York, 1942–1946 – De Gruyter, August 2025

Pierre Yves-Testenoire, Les cours de Roman Jakobson à l’École Libre des Hautes Études: New York, 1942–1946 – De Gruyter, August 2025 Exiled in the United States during the Second World War, linguist Roman Jakobson gave a series of lectures at the … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre and the “Liste Otto” of Prohibited Books in Occupied France

The “Liste Otto” was named after Otto Abetz, German ambassador to France under the Occupation, from August 1940 until the Liberation. The list indicated which books had to be removed from sale, with existing copies destroyed, after the German invasion … Continue reading

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Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire – Duke University Press, September 2024

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire – Duke University Press, September 2024 Introduction open access at this link I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books discussion with … Continue reading

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Joseph Thomas Milburn ed. Haruki Murakami and Philosophical Concepts – Springer, 2025

Joseph Thomas Milburn ed. Haruki Murakami and Philosophical Concepts – Springer, 2025 This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the work of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with a particular focus on the conceptual material of his work. It seeks to answer … Continue reading

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Paul W. Schroeder, America’s Fatal Leap: 1991-2016 and Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered – Verso, February 2025, introductions by Perry Anderson

Paul W. Schroeder, America’s Fatal Leap: 1991-2016 and Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered – Verso, February 2025, introductions by Perry Anderson A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of … Continue reading

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Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco (ed.), The History and Philosophy of Boredom – Routledge, June 2025

Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco (ed.), The History and Philosophy of Boredom – Routledge, June 2025

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“Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas” – audio recording of talk at Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

On 16 June 2025 I gave a short talk with the title “Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, to the Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop at the Maison Française, Oxford. The audio recording of my talk … Continue reading

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Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025

Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025

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“Political Emotions on the Far Right”, TANK – papers from Remarque Institute workshop in November 2024

“Political Emotions on the Far Right”, TANK – papers from Remarque Institute workshop in November 2024 Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog, Zahid R. Chaudhary, Fabian Muniesa, Alberto Toscano and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

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