Monthly Archives: December 2025

Gary Slater, Lisa Landoe Hedrick eds. Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides – Routledge, December 2025

Gary Slater, Lisa Landoe Hedrick eds. Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides – Routledge, December 2025 Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders. … Continue reading

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Books received – Leshem, Arviddson, Natter and Réfrégier, Pawelski

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land, the reedition of Stefan Arviddson, Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology As Ideology and Science, Henri Natter and Adam Réfrégier, Five Years Behind Hitler’s Barbed Wire:A Diary of French Officers … Continue reading

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Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access)

Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access) This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic … Continue reading

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Penelope Corfield interviews Christopher Hill

Thanks to Neil Stewart for this – Penelope Corfield interviews Christopher Hill Institute of Historical Research – Interviews with Historians – Christopher Hill

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Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025

Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025 I’ve shared the book before, but there is now a New Books discussion with Lucas Tse – thanks to dmf for this link A luminous biography … Continue reading

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Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026

Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment. This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current discussions of ornamentation, repetition, … Continue reading

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On the Trail of a Misplaced Reference in Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic

In Birth of the Clinic, Foucault quotes a passage which he incorrectly references to “S.A.D. Tissot, Avis aux gens de lettres sur leur santé, Lausanne, 1767, p. 28”. As part of the work for the new translation and edition of this text, we are … Continue reading

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Two more Gilles Deleuze courses, ed. David Lapoujade, Éditions de Minuit, 2025

After Sur la peinture in 2023 (translated as On Painting) and Sur Spinoza in 2024, David Lapoujade has edited two more volumes of Gilles Deleuze’s teaching, all with Éditions de Minuit: Sur l’appareil d’État et la machine de guerre: Cours … Continue reading

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Ana Maria Albulescu, Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power – Routledge, December 2025

Ana Maria Albulescu, Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power – Routledge, December 2025 This book examines the success of third-party mediation in conflicts in the post-Soviet space. Third-party mediation is the subject of … Continue reading

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Philip Janzen, An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean – Duke University Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Philip Janzen, An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean – Duke University Press, June 2025 New Books discussion with Elisa Prosperetti – thanks to dmf for the link In An Unformed Map, Philip Janzen traces the intellectual trajectories of … Continue reading

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