Author Archives: stuartelden

William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation – Oxford University Press, 2025 NDPR review by Aaron Berman Racial injustice, at its core, is the domination of time. Utopia has been one response to this domination. … Continue reading →

Siniša Malešević, Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities – Cambridge University Press, November 2025

Joseph Petek and Brian G. Henning eds. Whitehead at Harvard, 1925-1927 – Edinburgh University Press, August 2025

Aleks Krotoski, The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life – Bodley Head, October 2025 Thanks to Adalbert Saurma for the link. From the epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone, humanity’s eternal … Continue reading →

Leonie Ansems de Vries, Politics of Exhaustion: Border Violence and Struggles Over Movement – Bristol University Press, April 2026 This book exposes the strategies that make migrants’ lives unliveable and explores their resistance to this violence. Drawing on years of … Continue reading →

Laury Sarti, Mediterranean Connections: The Frankish Kingdoms and the Roman Empire (476–756) – Brill, October 2025 (print and open access) This monograph challenges the idea that Roman imperial authority in the West ended in 476. It shows how the Frankish … Continue reading →

David Glimp, Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance English Literature – Cambridge University Press, September 2025

Lowell Duckert, Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for our Warmer World – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming future Do we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European … Continue reading →