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Gerd Carling, Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological Guide – Routledge, May 2024

Gerd Carling, Linguistic Archaeology: An Introduction and Methodological Guide – Routledge, May 2024 Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for understanding the conceptual foundations and practical … Continue reading

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‘Learning lessons from the cyber-attack’ – British Library report, 8 March 2024

Learning lessons from the cyber-attack – British Library update and 18 page report, 8 March 2024 Today, we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place against the British Library last October. Our hope is that doing this will … Continue reading

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Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, forthcoming 2024

Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, forthcoming 2024 (can’t find a precise date, so will update with further details later) Update October 2024: Now published and available open access as pdf. Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant … Continue reading

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Alison M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing: A History – Oxford University Press, October 2022, now available open access

Alison M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing: A History – Oxford University Press, October 2022, now available open access Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the … Continue reading

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Working at the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir

In the final years of his life, Michel Foucault often used the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, a small Dominican library in Paris, for his work. I’ve never had a reason to visit before, but today I spent the morning there, looking … Continue reading

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Georg Löfflmann, The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity – Routledge, March 2024

Georg Löfflmann, The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity – Routledge, March 2024 Very expensive hardback and e-book only at this time. This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind … Continue reading

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

A revised and expanded version of this post is here as part of the Sunday histories series. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in the years before the Second World War, … Continue reading

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Key Words Preview: Introduction to The Raymond Williams Centenary Issue

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Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Robert B. Pippin, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism and the Fate of Philosophy – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western … Continue reading

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Rok Benčin, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity – Edinburgh University Press, print and open access, January 2024

Rok Benčin, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity – Edinburgh University Press, print and open access, January 2024

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