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Mira L. Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History – Harvard University Press, 2020

Posted on March 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Mira L. Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History – Harvard University Press, 2020 The story of how a much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens. Two world…

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Mircea Eliade on writing

Posted on March 8, 2021 by stuartelden

I don’t believe I shall ever forget the spring of 1937. Every day, except Friday and Saturday when I held the class and seminar at the university, I sat down at my desk immediately after lunch, at two o’clock. If … Continue reading →

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Virtual book launch 17 March 2021, 6pm (UK): Jessica Dubow, In Exile: Philosophy, Geography and Judaic Thought (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Posted on March 8, 2021 by stuartelden

There will be a virtual book launch for Jessica Dubow, In Exile: Philosophy, Geography and Judaic Thought (Bloomsbury, November 2020) on 17 March 2021, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm (UK time) IAS Book Launch – In Exile: Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought … Continue reading →

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The Political Imaginarium: Image, Object, Gesture

Posted on March 5, 2021 by stuartelden

The Political Imaginarium: Image, Object, Gesture In his book Le Portrait du roi (1981), Louis Marin famously claims that “The king is only truly king, that is, monarch, in images.” To be sure, Marin’s work explicitly refers back to a premodern political theology of … Continue reading →

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Microhistory and Global History – discussion between Carlo Ginzburg and Francesca Trivellato

Posted on March 5, 2021 by stuartelden

Microhistory and Global History – discussion between Carlo Ginzburg and Francesca Trivellato

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Books received – Edelstein, Geroulanos & Wheatley, Balzac, Lévi-Strauss, Lichnerowicz et. al., Mallory & Adams, Derrida

Posted on March 5, 2021 by stuartelden

A mix of recently received books – the new translations of Balzac’s Lost Souls and Derrida’s Clang from University of Minnesota Press in recompense for review work, and Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos & Natascha Wheatley (eds.), Power and Time: Temporalities … Continue reading →

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Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, March 2021

Posted on March 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism – Polity, translated by Andrew Brown, March 2021 Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was … Continue reading →

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Colm McAuliffe on the 1973 ICA festival that sparked British interest in Francophone structuralist and post-structuralist thought – Verso blog

Posted on March 4, 2021 by stuartelden

The French Programme: How Theory Came to London – Colm McAuliffe on the 1973 ICA festival that sparked British interest in Francophone structuralist and post-structuralist thought. March 1973: two months after Britain joins the European Economic Community, the French historian of … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 – University of Chicago Press, October 2021

Posted on March 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 – University of Chicago Press, October 2021, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, English edition established by Daniel Louis Wyche A collection of Foucault’s lectures that … Continue reading →

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Philosophical Inquiries, Vol 9 No 1, 2021 – special section on Ian Hacking

Posted on March 3, 2021 by stuartelden

Philosophical Inquiries, Vol 9 No 1, 2021 – special section on Ian Hacking Introduction open access, other papers require subscription Introduction. Ian Hacking and the Historical Reason of the Sciences Matteo Vagelli, Marica Setaro115-120 Naturalism, pragmatism and historical epistemology David … Continue reading →

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