Author Archives: stuartelden

David Beer, Writings about old ideas: A year with Georg Simmel at Medium An interesting piece on the process of writing his forthcoming book Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts: Worlds, Lives, Fragments (Palgrave, 2019) For several years I’d been trying to write … Continue reading →

Stuart Schrader, Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing – University of California Press, November 2019 From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and … Continue reading →

Alexandre Kojève, Atheism, translated by Jeff Love, Columbia UP 2018 One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body, translated by Justin E. H. Smith,  Bloomsbury 2019 In this original and important book, Corine Pelluchon argues for nothing less than a new social contract that…

One-day Symposium at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton, London the 1st of July 2019 We invite you to a one-day symposium on Monstrous Ontologies. Politics, Ethics, Materiality at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, the 1st of July … Continue reading →