Author Archives: stuartelden

Debbie Hall, Adventures in Maps – Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2024 A richly illustrated collection that maps twenty historical journeys. Adventures in Maps features twenty awe-inspiring journeys, ranging in distances from a few miles to great treks across land, sea, air, … Continue reading →

Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond – University of Chicago Press, October 2024 A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism.  Western philosophy is stuck in … Continue reading →

Foucault Studies 36: Special Issue – Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024) The issue is edited by Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino – all open access and able to download either individual essays or the issue as … Continue reading →

Tuomo Tiisala, Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism – Routledge, July 2024 (open access) Update: Colin Koopman reviews it at NDPR This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power … Continue reading →

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire – Duke University Press, September 2024 Introduction open access at this link In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II … Continue reading →

Manon Mathias, Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine – Routledge, April 2024 Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol … Continue reading →

Luke O’Sullivan, Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, July 2024 Just an expensive hardback and e-book at the moment.