Author Archives: stuartelden

Andres Saenz de Sicilia, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society – Brill, November 2024, paperback Haymarket, November 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Andres Saenz de Sicilia, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society – Brill, November 2024; paperback Haymarket, November 2025 New Books discussion with Elliot Dolan-Evans – thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading →

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Alex Gekker, Maps as Media – Polity, July 2026

Posted on August 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Alex Gekker, Maps as Media – Polity, July 2026 Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on our screens. Using a GPS while driving, looking for a shop on Google Maps, or … Continue reading →

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Andrew Littlejohn, We Live with the Sea: Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan – Duke University Press, July 2026

Posted on August 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrew Littlejohn, We Live with the Sea: Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan – Duke University Press, July 2026 Introduction open access at the above link In We Live with the Sea, Andrew Littlejohn addresses the implementation and controversy surrounding safety infrastructures … Continue reading →

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Ming Dong Gu, The Fusion of Intellectual Horizons in Chinese and Western Thought – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026

Posted on August 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Ming Dong Gu, The Fusion of Intellectual Horizons in Chinese and Western Thought – Edinburgh University Press, June 2026 Offers a convergence of ideas as the basis for a contemporary universalism with global values Locates a flow of intellectual thought … Continue reading →

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Charles Lincoln, Gods, Judges and Presidents: Trifunctional Archetypes in American Law and Government – Bloomsbury, August 2026

Posted on August 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Charles Lincoln, Gods, Judges and Presidents: Trifunctional Archetypes in American Law and Government – Bloomsbury, August 2026 Charles Lincoln interprets the U.S. Constitution through the mythic and psychological lens of Georges Dumézil’s trifunctional framework-priest, warrior, and producer-linking it to thinkers … Continue reading →

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Nicholas de Genova and Daniel I. Morales eds., Toward Border Abolition: Migrant Studies and the Law – Duke University Press, August 2026

Posted on August 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Nicholas de Genova and Daniel I. Morales eds., Toward Border Abolition: Migrant Studies and the Law – Duke University Press, August 2026 Introduction open access at the above link Toward Border Abolition is an interdisciplinary exploration of border abolition that brings … Continue reading →

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Thomás Zicman de Barros, Radical Democracy, Populism and Desire: Inside the Yellow Vests Movement – Edinburgh University Press, July 2026

Posted on August 10, 2026 by stuartelden

Thomás Zicman de Barros, Radical Democracy, Populism and Desire: Inside the Yellow Vests Movement – Edinburgh University Press, July 2026

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Miguel Vatter, Machiavelli and the Religion of the Ancients: Platonism and Radical Republicanism – Edinburgh University Press, July 2026

Posted on August 10, 2026 by stuartelden

Miguel Vatter, Machiavelli and the Religion of the Ancients: Platonism and Radical Republicanism – Edinburgh University Press, July 2026

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The Georges Dumézil-Michel Foucault correspondence – a chronological listing with archival locations

Posted on August 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault had a long friendship with the comparative mythologist and linguist Georges Dumézil. As well as providing invaluable support for Foucault’s career, Dumézil was also important to Foucault intellectually, as Didier Eribon was the first to discuss in detail, … Continue reading →

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Mark Crinson, Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape – Paul Mellon Centre, June 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Mark Crinson, Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape – Paul Mellon Centre, June 2026 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher How the UK’s largest international airport remade a local landscape Aviationland is the first critical study to examine how … Continue reading →

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