Monthly Archives: October 2025

Patricia Chiantera‐Stutte and Ulrike Jureit eds., Geo‐Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt – Routledge, November 2025 Sorry to report that the price is prohibitively expensive. This book focuses on the geographical and geopolitical sources for Carl Schmitt’s multilayered political … Continue reading →

Timothy Middleton, Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma – Fordham University Press, November 2025 A crucial intervention at the intersection of ecotheology and trauma theology  We are in the midst of a global ecological crisis. At times, … Continue reading →

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison – UCL Press, October 2025 Available in print and open access. Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary … Continue reading →

Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way – Profile Books, August 2025; University of Chicago Press, October 2025 The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical … Continue reading →

André Laks, Plato’s Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws – Princeton University Press, paperback September 2025 In Plato’s Second Republic, André Laks argues that the Laws, Plato’s last and longest dialogue, is also his most important political work, surpassing the Republic in historical relevance. Laks offers a … Continue reading →

Daniel J. Sherman, Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890–1940 – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 New Books discussion with Sarah Mills. Thanks to dmf for the link. Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate … Continue reading →