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Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024, paperback May 2026

Posted on June 10, 2026 by stuartelden

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024; paperback May 2026 Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions The two issues around which this collection revolves are … Continue reading →

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João Pina-Cabral, Metapersons: Transcendence and Life – Hau, 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on June 9, 2026 by stuartelden

João Pina-Cabral, Metapersons: Transcendence and Life – Hau, 2026 Print distributed by University of Chicago Press; available open access Metapersons begins from a simple yet striking observation: across the world, people live in the company of divinities, ancestors, spirits, sacred mountains, … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026

Posted on June 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Jennifer Stob, The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema – Routledge, June 2026 This book explores the Situationist International’s paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that … Continue reading →

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Julia Kristeva’s Dostoyevsky – from Mikhail Bakhtin and Hans Holbein to psychoanalysis, religion and language 

Posted on June 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva often references Fyodor Dostoyevsky in her work. She read him while growing up in Bulgaria, and continued after her move to France. She recalls her initial reading was against her father’s directive. As well as Dostoyevsky’s famous novels, … Continue reading →

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Jean-David Morvan, Suzette Bloch and Laurent Bidot, Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant – La vie et l’œuvre de Marc Bloch en BD, Tallandier, June 2026

Posted on June 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean-David Morvan and Suzette Bloch, Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant – La vie et l’œuvre de Marc Bloch en BD, Tallandier, June 2026 « Marc Bloch était mon grand-père. Un homme exceptionnel, un savant, un républicain et un patriote acharné dont l’engagement … Continue reading →

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Jean Wahl, The Idea of the Instant in Descartes’s Philosophy – ed. and trans. Alan D. Schrift, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

Posted on June 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Jean Wahl, The Idea of the Instant in Descartes’s Philosophy – ed. and trans. Alan D. Schrift, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026

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Books received – Sollers, Kristeva, Shakespeare, Storm, Andrew & Ungar

Posted on June 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Some books bought new or second-hand recently, including some for ‘Sunday History’ posts; the first two volumes of the Arden Shakespeare fourth series; and Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Coils of Critical History, … Continue reading →

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Benjamin Kohlmann, Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman – Verso, August 2026

Posted on June 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Benjamin Kohlmann, Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman – Verso, August 2026 A literary history spanning borders and centuries to explore radicalization as portrayed in fiction Tracing the evolution of socialist world literature from the nineteenth century to … Continue reading →

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Jon Douglas Solomon, Foucault and Genocide: A Genealogy of a Fantasy of the West – Palgrave Pivot, 2026

Posted on June 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Jon Douglas Solomon, Foucault and Genocide: A Genealogy of a Fantasy of the West – Palgrave Pivot, 2026 Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to … Continue reading →

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Allen Buchanan, Political Tribalism: How It Hijacks Our Minds and Diminishes Our Humanity – Routledge, May 2025 and NDPR review

Posted on June 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Allen Buchanan, Political Tribalism: How It Hijacks Our Minds and Diminishes Our Humanity – Routledge, May 2025 NDPR review by Alexander Motchoulski Combining hard data with the author’s personal story of a life in the U.S. South and then as a … Continue reading →

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