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Richard Wolin, Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology – Yale University Press, January 2023

Richard Wolin, Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology – Yale University Press, January 2023 What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century’s most important philosopher? Martin Heidegger’s … Continue reading

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David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023

David Farrell Krell, Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida – Indiana University Press, June 2023 In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida … Continue reading

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David Harvey discussion “La géographie du capital” and dialogue with Jean-Luc Mélenchon (videos)

David Harvey discussion – although the questions are in French, Harvey speaks in English, followed by an interpreter. Cette conférence est le premier événement d’une série de deux organisés par le département de géographie de l’Institut La Boétie, dans le … Continue reading

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Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber – Harvard University Press, April 2023

Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber – Harvard University Press, April 2023 One of America’s leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading—and confounding—political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to … Continue reading

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Shiloh Krupar, Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers – University of Minnesota Press/Forerunners, March 2023

Shiloh Krupar, Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers – University of Minnesota Press/Forerunners, March 2023 Health Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates … Continue reading

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Frédéric Keck, How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From “Primitive Mentality” to Contemporary Pandemics – HAU books, December 2023

Frédéric Keck, How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From “Primitive Mentality” to Contemporary Pandemics – HAU books, December 2023 This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century France, shaping … Continue reading

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Italo Calvino on writing

Italo Calvino, The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction, trans. Ann Goldstein (Penguin) – two nice passages about writing, taken from the title essay. I have to say that most of the books I’ve written and those I have it … Continue reading

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The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2023) – New Books Network discussion with Dave O’Brien

I discuss my recent book The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2023) on the New Books Network with Dave O’Brien (audio) Dave has now generously discussed all the books in this series: Foucault’s Last Decade, 21 September 2016 Foucault: The Birth … Continue reading

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Benjamin Tallis, Identities, Borderscapes, Orders: (In)Security, (Im)Mobility and Crisis in the EU and Ukraine – Springer, February 2023

Benjamin Tallis, Identities, Borderscapes, Orders: (In)Security, (Im)Mobility and Crisis in the EU and Ukraine – Springer, February 2023 This book provides a pre-history of Russia’s war on Ukraine and Europe’s relations to it, illuminating the deep roots of the EU’s … Continue reading

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Engin Isin, The conditions of planetary citizenship – online lecture, 13 April 2023

Engin Isin, The conditions of planetary citizenship – online lecture, 13 April 2023, 4pm BST registration required via Eventbrite

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