Author Archives: stuartelden

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality – Cambridge University Press, August 2025 I’ve shared the book details before. There is now a New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading →

Martin Schulze Wessel, The Curse of Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the Fatal Paths in Russian History – trans. Neil Solomon, Polity, November 2025 Russia’s attack on Ukraine marks an epochal break in European and global history. Undoubtedly, the decision to … Continue reading →

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70–Fall 1873) – trans.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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →