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David I. Backer, Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education – Bloomsbury, July 2022 (print, and open access)

Posted on December 15, 2022 by stuartelden

David I. Backer, Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education – Bloomsbury, July 2022 (print, and open access) Louis Althusser was one of the foremost Marxist philosophers of the 20th century. His thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet … Continue reading →

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Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 [and open access Introduction]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Kristi Sweet, Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique – Cambridge University Press, January 2023 Another expensive hardback, but looks interesting… [update: the Introduction is available open access] Update October 2025: NDPR review by Lara … Continue reading →

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Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order – Manchester University Press, March 2022 Just an expensive hardback at the moment, unfortunately. Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but … Continue reading →

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Sean D. Kirkland, Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle: On How to Read the Tradition – Northwestern University Press, July 2023

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Sean D. Kirkland, Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle: On How to Read the Tradition – Northwestern University Press, July 2023 A bold new conception of Heidegger’s project of Destruktion as a method of interpreting history For Martin Heidegger, our inherited traditions … Continue reading →

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Some bibliographical questions about Roland Barthes [with some answers]

Posted on December 14, 2022 by stuartelden

Some bibliographical questions about Roland Barthes. Any answers much appreciated – and with the first three will hopefully interesting to others; the final one is more a remark (or, as the cliché goes, more of a comment than a question). … Continue reading →

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Don Munro, Marx’s Theory of Land, Rent and Cities – Edinburgh University Press, 2022 (hardback and open access e-book)

Posted on December 13, 2022 by stuartelden

Don Munro, Marx’s Theory of Land, Rent and Cities – Edinburgh University Press, 2022 (hardback and open access e-book) Note that adding the pdf to a basket doesn’t work; but if you scroll down the page there are links to … Continue reading →

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New translations of Alternatives à la prison (2022)

Posted on December 13, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
New translations of Alternatives à la prison (2022) The lecture given by Foucault on alternatives to prison in 1976 at the University of Montreal was published and commented on in Foucault in Montreal (2021) published…

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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory – Duke University Press, January 2023

Posted on December 12, 2022 by stuartelden

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory – Duke University Press, January 2023 The Introduction is open access here [update: there is a review at The Duke Reader; and a discussion on the New Books network]

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Books received – Dumézil, Bejan, Leucate, Basso, Koerner, Malpas

Posted on December 12, 2022 by stuartelden

A copy of Georges Dumézil, Heur et Malheur du guerrier; Cristina Bejan, Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association; Aristide Leucate’s recent short study of Dumézil; Elisabetta Basso, Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955; E.F.K. … Continue reading →

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John Agnew, Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World – Rowman & Littlefield, July 2022

Posted on December 12, 2022 by stuartelden

John Agnew, Hidden Geopolitics: Governance in a Globalized World – Rowman & Littlefield, July 2022 Geopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great … Continue reading →

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