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Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025

Posted on December 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025 I’ve shared the book before, but there is now a New Books discussion with Lucas Tse – thanks to dmf for this link A luminous biography … Continue reading →

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Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026

Posted on December 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment. This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current discussions of ornamentation, repetition, … Continue reading →

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On the Trail of a Misplaced Reference in Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic

Posted on December 21, 2025 by stuartelden

In Birth of the Clinic, Foucault quotes a passage which he incorrectly references to “S.A.D. Tissot, Avis aux gens de lettres sur leur santé, Lausanne, 1767, p. 28”. As part of the work for the new translation and edition of this text, we are … Continue reading →

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Two more Gilles Deleuze courses, ed. David Lapoujade, Éditions de Minuit, 2025

Posted on December 20, 2025 by stuartelden

After Sur la peinture in 2023 (translated as On Painting) and Sur Spinoza in 2024, David Lapoujade has edited two more volumes of Gilles Deleuze’s teaching, all with Éditions de Minuit: Sur l’appareil d’État et la machine de guerre: Cours … Continue reading →

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Ana Maria Albulescu, Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power – Routledge, December 2025

Posted on December 20, 2025 by stuartelden

Ana Maria Albulescu, Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power – Routledge, December 2025 This book examines the success of third-party mediation in conflicts in the post-Soviet space. Third-party mediation is the subject of … Continue reading →

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Philip Janzen, An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean – Duke University Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on December 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Philip Janzen, An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean – Duke University Press, June 2025 New Books discussion with Elisa Prosperetti – thanks to dmf for the link In An Unformed Map, Philip Janzen traces the intellectual trajectories of … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Témoigner: Séminaire (1992-1993) – eds. Peggy Kamuf and David Wills, Seuil, November 2025

Posted on December 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Témoigner: Séminaire (1992-1993) – eds. Peggy Kamuf and David Wills, Seuil, November 2025 Des fantômes hantent ces pages, les fantômes de témoins disparus. Leur passage est annoncé par un propos du poète Paul Celan : « Nul ne … Continue reading →

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Theresa Delgadillo, Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas – University of Michigan Press, September 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on December 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Theresa Delgadillo, Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas – University of Michigan Press, September 2024 New Books discussion with Shodona Kettle – thanks to dmf for the link Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora … Continue reading →

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“Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian Hacking”, Monist special issue, 2025

Posted on December 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian HackingOctober 2025, Volume 108, Number 4 Editor: Fraser McBrideAdvisory Editors Paul A. Roth and Matteo Vagelli Does Entity Realism Hold Up? — Lydia PattonScientific Understanding Beyond Representing: Lessons from Ian Hacking’s Work — Oscar Westerblad and … Continue reading →

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Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026

Posted on December 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Christopher Penfield, Deleuze’s Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026 Thanks to dmf for the link – looks good but expensive, even for the e-book

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