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Sharad Chari, Apartheid Remains – Duke University Press, 2024 (open access introduction)

Posted on March 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Sharad Chari, Apartheid Remains – Duke University Press, May 2024 In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the Indian Ocean city … Continue reading →

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Philipp Felsch, How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold – Polity, trans. Daniel Bowles, March 2024

Posted on March 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Philipp Felsch, How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold: Tale of a Redemption – trans. Daniel Bowles, Polity, March 2024 I’ve mentioned the German Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam before, along with the interview with Felsch at the Journal of the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Binswanger & Warburg, Auffret, Foucault, Dumézil, Benveniste et. al, and Derrida

Posted on March 16, 2024 by stuartelden

Some recently-bought books, mostly in Paris, including Foucault’s very early La constitution d’un transcendantal historique dans la Phénoménologie de l’esprit de Hegel: Mémoire du diplôme d’études supérieures de philosophie and the most recently published seminar from Jacques Derrida, Répondre – du secret. … Continue reading →

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Enrique Dussel, The Theological Metaphors of Marx – trans. Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, foreword Eduardo Mendieta, Duke University Press, April 2024

Posted on March 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Enrique Dussel, The Theological Metaphors of Marx – trans. Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, foreword Eduardo Mendieta, Duke University Press, April 2024 the introduction is open access here In The Theological Metaphors of Marx, Enrique Dussel provides a groundbreaking combination of Marxology, theology, and … Continue reading →

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Bruce O’Neill, Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest – Penn Press, April 2024

Posted on March 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Bruce O’Neill, Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest – Penn Press, April 2024 This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life … Continue reading →

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La Toupie folle – The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts

Posted on March 14, 2024 by stuartelden

La Toupie folle – The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts Our research project, The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts funded by a Small Grant from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, concerns, as its primary object, an issue of the journal Recherches(number 13) from December … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose, Tips for planning research leave

Posted on March 13, 2024 by stuartelden

The geographer Gillian Rose with some Tips for planning research leave

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Lyndsey Stonebridge about the writing and research behind a new book on the work of Hannah Arendt

Posted on March 12, 2024 by stuartelden

“I’ve learnt from Arendt the necessity – as well as dangers – of speaking your mind.” Thanks to Dave Beer for the link. The book being discussed is Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in … Continue reading →

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Marta Faustino and Hélder Telo (eds.) Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments – Brill, March 2024

Posted on March 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Marta Faustino and Hélder Telo (eds.) Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments – Brill, March 2024 Some interesting looking chapters from a good range of people, but a terrible price, where the e-book is even more expensive than … Continue reading →

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William K. Carroll (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci – Edward Elgar, January 2024

Posted on March 10, 2024 by stuartelden

William K. Carroll (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci – Edward Elgar, January 2024 You can probably guess from ‘companion’ that this is an interesting-looking collection at a crazy price… Affirming Antonio Gramsci’s continuing influence, this adroitly cultivated Companion offers … Continue reading →

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