Monthly Archives: January 2026

Oli Mould, Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a Common Urban Future – Manchester University Press, February 2026

Posted on January 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Oli Mould, Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a Common Urban Future – Manchester University Press, February 2026 A visionary exploration of what the city might be in a postcapitalist world. In a world dominated by capitalism, where urban landscapes suffer from inequality, … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70–Fall 1873) – trans. Sean D. Kirkland and Andrew J Mitchell, Stanford University Press, January 2026

Posted on January 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70–Fall 1873) – trans. Sean D. Kirkland and Andrew J Mitchell, Stanford University Press, January 2026 The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Volume 1 During his early years in … Continue reading →

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Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight – trans. Gregory Elliott, Verso, January 2026

Posted on January 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight – trans. Gregory Elliott, Verso, January 2026 The best-selling author of A Philosophy of Walking returns to address the eternal subject of human conflict Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to many like a … Continue reading →

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Miguel de Beistegui, Crisis: A Critique – Bloomsbury, January 2026

Posted on January 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Miguel de Beistegui, Crisis: A Critique – Bloomsbury, January 2026 Crises abound.The ‘end of history’ in the form of the triumph of liberalism has given way to a proliferation of crises internal to liberal, and especially neoliberal democracies: our economies and … Continue reading →

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Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on January 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, November 2025 The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume. Throughout his … Continue reading →

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Jean Berthier, Voyage tranquille au pays des horreurs: Sollers, Barthes, Kristeva, Pleynet, Wahl… en Chine – Le Cherche Midi, January 2026

Posted on January 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean Berthier, Voyage tranquille au pays des horreurs: Sollers, Barthes, Kristeva, Pleynet, Wahl… en Chine – Le Cherche Midi, January 2026 Thanks to Barthes Studies on Bluesky for the link. Le roman documenté du voyage de Philippe Sollers, Roland Barthes, … Continue reading →

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Holly Brewer, The King’s Slaves: The British Empire and the Origins of American Slavery – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026

Posted on January 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Holly Brewer, The King’s Slaves: The British Empire and the Origins of American Slavery – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026 The original draft of the Declaration of Independence condemned British kings for supporting slavery in their empire. England’s two seventeenth-century revolutions … Continue reading →

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Clémence Ramnoux – Mythology, Psychology, Philosophy

Posted on January 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Clémence Ramnoux (1905-1997) was an important French scholar of ancient Greece. She worked mostly on the pre-Socratics, especially Heraclitus. Alongside Simone Pétrement she was one of the first two women who entered the philosophy programme of the École Normale Supérieure in 1927. Simone Weil … Continue reading →

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H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery eds. Southern Epistemologies: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon – Hau Books, June 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on January 10, 2026 by stuartelden

H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery eds. Southern Epistemologies: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon – Hau Books, June 2026 (print and open access) What does it mean to … Continue reading →

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Shirley Samuels, Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States – Princeton University Press, October/December 2025

Posted on January 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Shirley Samuels, Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States – Princeton University Press, October/December 2025 In Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins … Continue reading →

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