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Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025

Posted on September 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025 This book focuses on political presuppositions animating modern historical reflection in Germany that underwent sharp radicalization in … Continue reading →

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Don Thomas Deere, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space – Duke University Press, January 2026

Posted on September 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Don Thomas Deere, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space – Duke University Press, January 2026 In The Invention of Order, Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its … Continue reading →

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“An introduction to a non-fascist geography” – review of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination

Posted on September 10, 2025 by stuartelden

My review, “An introduction to a non-fascist geography“, of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in Dialogues in Human Geography. If you’d like to read it and can’t access … Continue reading →

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Matthew D.C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration – University of California Press, August 2025 (print and open access) and New Books discussion

Posted on September 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Matthew D.C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration – University of California Press, August 2025 (print and open access) New Books discussion with Michael Motia – thanks to dmf for the link This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies … Continue reading →

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Sarah E. Bond, Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – Yale University Press, February 2025

Posted on September 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Sarah E. Bond, Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – Yale University Press, February 2025

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Arnault Skornicki, Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences – Springer, September 2025

Posted on September 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Arnault Skornicki, Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences – Springer, September 2025 based on La grande Soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales (2017) This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s political thought. Far from … Continue reading →

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Aaron Brice Cummings, Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre – Bloomsbury, September 2024

Posted on September 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Aaron Brice Cummings, Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre – Bloomsbury, September 2024 Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, … Continue reading →

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Glyph: Johns Hopkins Textual Studies – Samuel Weber, Deconstruction and the American Reception of French Theory

Posted on September 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Several journals played a significant role in introducing so-called ‘French Theory’ to the United States. They would include Yale French Studies, Diacritics, boundary 2 and Semiotext(e). Yale French Studies claims to be “the oldest English-language journal in the United States devoted to French and Francophone literature and … Continue reading →

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The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek

Posted on September 6, 2025 by stuartelden

The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek One volume was published in 2022, but three more are now announced. Alfred North Whitehead was one of the 20th-century’s most … Continue reading →

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Stéphane Füzesséry, La Destruction de Berlin: De l’explosion urbaine à Germania, 1860-1945 – La Découverte, August 2025

Posted on September 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Stéphane Füzesséry, La Destruction de Berlin: De l’explosion urbaine à Germania, 1860-1945 – La Découverte, August 2025 Thanks to John Raimo for the link. La croissance explosive de Berlin entre 1860 et 1910 a-t-elle favorisé la réception du nazisme ? … Continue reading →

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