Author Archives: stuartelden

W.C. Hackett, Outside the Gates – Angelico, 2021 (historical novel about Jean Wahl)

Posted on December 8, 2023 by stuartelden

W.C. Hackett, Outside the Gates – Angelico, 2021 The gates of Drancy Internment Camp in the northeast suburbs of Paris served as a holding pen for thousands of Jews during the German occupation of France in World War II. Jean … Continue reading →

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Dana Luciano, How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America – Duke UP, January 2024 (open access introduction)

Posted on December 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Dana Luciano, How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America – Duke University Press, January 2024 The introduction is available open access here In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century … Continue reading →

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Karl Marx, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume I – trans. Paul Reitter, ed. Paul Reitter and Paul North, preface by Wendy Brown, afterword by William Clare Roberts – Princeton University Press, September 2024

Posted on December 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Karl Marx, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume I – trans. Paul Reitter, ed. Paul Reitter and Paul North, preface by Wendy Brown, afterword by William Clare Roberts – Princeton University Press, September 2024 Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in … Continue reading →

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David Storey, Territories: The Claiming of Space – new edition, Routledge, May 2024

Posted on December 5, 2023 by stuartelden

David Storey, Territories: The Claiming of Space – new edition, Routledge, May 2024 (The Routledge description says second edition, but there was one before their first with a different press.) Territories are more than simply bounded spaces; they reflect the … Continue reading →

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Catherine Malabou, Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy – Polity, trans. Carolyn Shread, November 2023

Posted on December 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Catherine Malabou, Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy – Polity, trans. Carolyn Shread, November 2023 Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves … Continue reading →

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Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Posted on December 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Bruce Lincoln, Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar’s Hidden Past and his Protégé’s Unsolved Murder – Oxford University Press, March 2024 The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect themIn early … Continue reading →

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Jure Vidmar, Territorial Status in International Law – Bloomsbury, January 2024

Posted on December 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Jure Vidmar, Territorial Status in International Law – Bloomsbury, January 2024 This book develops a new theory of territorialism and international legal status of territories. It (i) defines the concept of territory, explaining how territories are created; (ii) redefines the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Mauss, Ginzburg, Amin, Lefebvre, Foucault, Jackson, Danielsson

Posted on December 1, 2023 by stuartelden

A mix of recently bought books along with Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance, sent by Polity, and the long-awaited hardback of Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography. I think I’ve mentioned all the … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Verso, August 2024 

Posted on December 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Verso, August 2024  Marxist Modernism presents for the first time Gillian Rose’s 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School, art, and politics. Delivered soon after the publication of her now … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 15: A first trip to the Paris archives since the spring and more archive work in the UK

Posted on November 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m now back at work full time, though very grateful to be free of teaching and administrative duties, and I am feeling much better and more like myself. I was in Paris for two weeks this month, which was the … Continue reading →

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