Author Archives: stuartelden

Matthew Guariglia, Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York – Duke University Press, November 2023 The Introduction is available open access here During the years between the Civil War and World War … Continue reading →

Mark Sinclair & Daniel Whistler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy – Oxford University Press, June 2024 Expensive hardback only, of course. Thanks to Tim Howles for the link. French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, … Continue reading →

Benjamin Bourcier & Mikko Jakonen (eds.), British Modern International Thought in the Making: Politics and Economy from Hobbes to Bentham – Palgrave Macmillan, February 2024 This book articulates international political theory in dialogue with economics on several questions. It asks: … Continue reading →

David Beer, The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing – Bristol University Press, November 2022, paperback February 2024 The paperback is now published. We are living in algorithmic times.  From machine learning and artificial intelligence … Continue reading →

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard Harcourt – Seuil/Gallimard/EHESS, May 2024 This is starting to appear in online bookshops (i.e. Decitre), but I can’t yet find a publisher page. It’s the next volume in the collection of Foucault’s … Continue reading →

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being – trans. Ros Schwartz, introduction by Kate Kirkpatrick, Penguin, February 2024 French philosopher Simone Weil’s best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs … Continue reading →

Gail Lythgoe, The Rebirth of Territory – Cambridge University Press, March 2024 The concept of territory is central in international law, but a detailed analysis of how the concept is used in both discourse and practice has been lacking until … Continue reading →

Jacob Blumenfeld, The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition – Routledge, December 2023 This book provides a detailed account of the role of property in German Idealism. It puts the concept of property in the … Continue reading →

Timothy Raeymaekers, The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean – Cornell University Press, February 2024 There is a bit more information on the author’s website. The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the … Continue reading →