Monthly Archives: October 2025

Laury Sarti, Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756) – Brill, October 2025 (print and open access)

Laury Sarti, Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756) – Brill, October 2025 (print and open access) This monograph challenges the idea that Roman imperial authority in the West ended in 476. It shows how the Frankish … Continue reading

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David Glimp, Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance English Literature – Cambridge University Press, September 2025

David Glimp, Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance English Literature – Cambridge University Press, September 2025

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Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025

Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European … Continue reading

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Georges Dumézil and Benoîte Groult: the Académie française and the debate about feminine nouns for professions

In his dialogues with Didier Eribon, published in 1989, Claude Lévi-Strauss commented on the linguistic work of the Académie française, and especially a campaign to amend the gender terminology of professions. Should, for example, a female politician be referred to … Continue reading

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Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now – University of Chicago Press, March 2026

Shannon Hoff, How to Read Hegel Now – University of Chicago Press, March 2026 A powerful exploration of how Hegel’s ideas about freedom can speak to social injustice today. One might be forgiven for feeling that the philosophical tradition, notoriously … Continue reading

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Yoann Malinge, L’Action dans la philosophie de Jean-Paul Sartre – Classiques Garnier, October 2025

Yoann Malinge, L’Action dans la philosophie de Jean-Paul Sartre – Classiques Garnier, October 2025 Jean-Paul Sartre développe une philosophie de l’action dans laquelle l’existence humaine et le monde sont liés. Exister, c’est agir. Cependant, l’action peut se heurter à des … Continue reading

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The library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert, inventory online

Announcing the official launch of the Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard Announcement in French and English – thanks to Foucault News … Continue reading

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Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain” – Yale University Press, October 2025

Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain” – Yale University Press, October 2025 The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025 Now published Comment s’est constituée, à travers le temps, la … Continue reading

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J. Michael Cole, The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War – Polity, October 2025

J. Michael Cole, The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War – Polity, October 2025 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the … Continue reading

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