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Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023 This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their … Continue reading →

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Susan Slyomovics (ed.), Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East, Edinburgh University Press, November 2023

Posted on October 12, 2023 by stuartelden

Susan Slyomovics (ed.), Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East, Edinburgh University Press, November 2023

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Angelo Del Boca, As Cruel as Anyone Else: Italians, Colonies and Empire – trans. Richard Braude, Seagull, July 2024

Posted on October 11, 2023 by stuartelden

Angelo Del Boca, As Cruel as Anyone Else: Italians, Colonies and Empire – trans. Richard Braude, Seagull, July 2024 Reveals a dark chapter in the Italian government’s colonial history that has been largely hidden from view. Between the end of the … Continue reading →

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John Robertson (ed.), Time, History and Political Thought – Cambridge University Press, June 2023

Posted on October 10, 2023 by stuartelden

John Robertson (ed.), Time, History and Political Thought – Cambridge University Press, June 2023 Between the cliché that ‘a week is a long time in politics’ and the aspiration of many political philosophers to give their ideas universal, timeless validity … Continue reading →

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Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024

Posted on October 9, 2023 by stuartelden

Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin, January 2024 (US; UK) The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, … Continue reading →

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Thomas Vesting, State Theory and the Law: An Introduction – Edward Elgar, 2022, paperback 2023

Posted on October 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Thomas Vesting, State Theory and the Law: An Introduction – Edward Elgar, 2022, paperback 2023 There has been renewed and growing interest in exploring the significant role played by law in the centralization of power and sovereignty – right from … Continue reading →

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Richard Saull, Capital, Race and Space, two volumes – Brill, 2023

Posted on October 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Saull, Capital, Race and Space, two volumes – Brill, 2023; paperbacks with Haymarket in summer 2024 – Capital, Race and Space, Volume I: The Far Right from Bonapartism to Fascism In this first volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard … Continue reading →

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Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023

Posted on October 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Tehlike, Suç ve Haklar, 2023: Michel Foucault ile Jonathan Simon’ın Söyleşisi, trans. Utku Özmakas, Ayrıntı Yayınları, October 2023 A text I edited from the Berkeley archive, “Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon“, which originally … Continue reading →

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Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – Yale University Press, September 2023

Posted on October 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World – Yale University Press, September 2023; paperback August 2024 How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth … Continue reading →

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David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024

Posted on October 5, 2023 by stuartelden

David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024 Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may … Continue reading →

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