Author Archives: stuartelden

Elias J. Palti, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change, Cambridge University Press, May 2024 How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti … Continue reading →

Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger’s Magical Materialism – Fordham University Press, September 2024 The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities … Continue reading →

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 Update October 2025: New Books discussion with Gina Stamm. Uncovers the nonhuman turn’s unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France French Technological … Continue reading →

Nick Couldry, The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t? – Polity, October 2024 update: thanks to dmf for a link to a Cultural Studies podcast discussion of the book Over the … Continue reading →

Christine Sypnowich, G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality – Polity, July 2024 Part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual … Continue reading →