Author Archives: stuartelden

Ananya Agustin Malhotra, Tran Duc Thao’s Anticolonial Phenomenology: In Theory and in Practice – JHI blog In February 1946, before the outbreak of the first Indochina War, the Vietnamese Marxist philosopher Tran Duc Thao (1917–93) outlined for the French reading … Continue reading →

In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’ (2017) Achille Mbembe, The Critique of Black Reason. Duke University Press, 2016

Achille Mbembe, Brutalism – Duke University Press, January 2024 In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as … Continue reading →

Nivedita Menon, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South – Duke University Press, May 2024 In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hyper-visualizes women and religion while obscuring other related … Continue reading →

Jonathan Wolff & Avner De-Shalt, City of Equals – Oxford University Press, December 2023 (print and open access) When we think about equality in the city, we are very likely to think first of the wide and growing divide between … Continue reading →

Journal of the History of Ideas blog – year in review Includes interviews, article fora, short essays As another year is drawing to a close, we are looking back on some of the highlights we have published over the course … Continue reading →