Author Archives: stuartelden

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 →

Julia Caterina Hartley, Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France – I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, December 2023 New translations of Persian literature into French, the invention of the Aryan myth, increased travel between France and Iran, and the … Continue reading →

Broadly Speaking: An Interview with Ana Antić Ana Antić is a professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the history of modern Europe and its global connections, history … Continue reading →

Youjin B. Chung, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures – Cornell University Press, 2024 Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert … Continue reading →