Monthly Archives: April 2026

Laurence Hemming and Aaron Turner eds. Heidegger and Parmenides – Bloomsbury, April 2026

Posted on April 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Laurence Hemming and Aaron Turner eds. Heidegger and Parmenides – Bloomsbury, April 2026 This collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heidegger’s quest to bring … Continue reading →

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Felix Berenskötter ed. Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction – Sage, November 2025

Posted on April 29, 2026 by stuartelden

Felix Berenskötter ed. Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction – Sage, November 2025 How can we better understand global issues? And what does it mean to do international relations theory today? Concepts in International Relations offers a fresh and accessible introduction to IR … Continue reading →

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A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy:Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West -Verso, April 2026

Posted on April 28, 2026 by stuartelden

A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy:Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West –Verso, April 2026 The definitive history of a dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory  “Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. … Continue reading →

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Louise Ridden, Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on April 27, 2026 by stuartelden

Louise Ridden, Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026 (print and open access) Studies nonviolence as a way of knowing, doing and being in armed conflict This book takes the emerging … Continue reading →

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The Tragic Death of Lucien Gerschel and his Posthumous Text on the Finnish Sampo

Posted on April 26, 2026 by stuartelden

In a previous piece in this series, I discussed Georges Dumézil’s student and colleague Lucien Gerschel and their discussions of the Roman general Coriolanus. Gerschel had attended lectures by Dumézil at the École Pratique des Hautes Études shortly before the Second World War. … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk, The Continent Without Qualities: Bookmarks in the Book of Europe, trans. Robert Hughes, Cambridge: Polity, 2026

Posted on April 25, 2026 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk, The Continent Without Qualities: Bookmarks in the Book of Europe, trans. Robert Hughes, Cambridge: Polity, 2026 Europe has often been the target of criticism: Europe has lost touch with its core values, its leaders are indecisive and its citizens … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on April 24, 2026 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK Tickets available via Eventbrite Famously described as the Twenty Years Crisis by the international relations historian E.H. Carr, the period between the First and Second … Continue reading →

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Nicole M. Rizzuto, Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926–2014 – Oxford University Press, June 2026

Posted on April 24, 2026 by stuartelden

Nicole M. Rizzuto, Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926–2014 – Oxford University Press, June 2026 Expensive hardback only at the moment It is a truism that the last one hundred years have been defined by the accelerated … Continue reading →

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Sonia Lavaert, Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza: Freedom, Equality, Multitude – trans. Albert Gootjes, Edinburgh University Press, October 2024, paperback April 2026

Posted on April 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Sonia Lavaert, Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza: Freedom, Equality, Multitude – trans. Albert Gootjes, Edinburgh University Press, October 2024, paperback April 2026 In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Spinoza effected a reversal in the relationship between philosophy, … Continue reading →

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Sandrine Bergès, No Place Like Home: Women Philosophers’ Struggles with Domesticity – Oxford University Press, June 2026

Posted on April 23, 2026 by stuartelden

Sandrine Bergès, No Place Like Home: Women Philosophers’ Struggles with Domesticity – Oxford University Press, June 2026 Why should we think about the home? Most would agree that it is central to children’s development-a healthy, stable, and hopefully loving environment … Continue reading →

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