Author Archives: stuartelden

Andrew Mason, What’s Wrong with Lookism? Personal Appearance, Discrimination, and Disadvantage – Oxford University Press, July 2023

Posted on August 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrew Mason, What’s Wrong with Lookism? Personal Appearance, Discrimination, and Disadvantage – Oxford University Press, July 2023 People are treated differently as a result of their looks. But when is appearance discrimination, or “lookism” as it is often called, morally … Continue reading →

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Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023

Posted on August 8, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant’s account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the … Continue reading →

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Lauren Benton, They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence – Princeton University Press, February 2024

Posted on August 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Lauren Benton, They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence – Princeton University Press, February 2024 Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at … Continue reading →

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Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java – Duke University Press, August 2023

Posted on August 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Adam Bobbette, The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java – Duke University Press, August 2023 The Introduction is available here In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s … Continue reading →

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Krešimir Vuković, Wolves of Rome: The Lupercalia from Roman and Comparative Perspectives – December 2022 (and Journal of History of Ideas blog)

Posted on August 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Krešimir Vuković, Wolves of Rome: The Lupercalia from Roman and Comparative Perspectives – December 2022 The study is a fresh interpretation of the Roman foundation myth and one of the most important Roman festivals – the Lupercalia, an annual celebration … Continue reading →

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Irene Cheng, The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America – University of Minnesota Press, August 2023

Posted on August 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Irene Cheng, The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America – University of Minnesota Press, August 2023 In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impulse flourished in the United States through the circulation of … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter – Routledge, December 2023 [the print book link has some more detail, including some endorsements] This looks a useful collection, though despite what the description says most of the texts are … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg, Secularism and its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies – Central European University Press, July 2023

Posted on August 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Carlo Ginzburg, Secularism and its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies – Central European University Press, July 2023 (Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures) In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, … Continue reading →

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Evgenia Iliadou, Border Harms and Everyday Violence: A Prison Island in Europe – Bristol University Press, September 2023

Posted on August 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Evgenia Iliadou, Border Harms and Everyday Violence: A Prison Island in Europe – Bristol University Press, September 2023 The Greek island of Lesvos is frequently the subject of news reports on the refugee ‘crisis’, but they only occasionally focus on … Continue reading →

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Patrick Gamez review of The Early Foucault (Polity, 2021)

Posted on August 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Patrick Gamez has a generous, appreciative and thoughtful review of my 2021 book The Early Foucault in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. It’s in the same issue as my review of Elisabetta Basso’s Young Foucault (here). … Continue reading →

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