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Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Agonistic Condition: Materialism and Democracy – Edinburgh University Press, June 2025

Posted on August 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Agonistic Condition: Materialism and Democracy – Edinburgh University Press, June 2025

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Alison Mountz & Kira Williams, Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard – MIT Press, July 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on August 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Alison Mountz & Kira Williams, Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard – MIT Press, July 2025 (print and open access) An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University’s geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia … Continue reading →

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Matthew Beaumont, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London – Verso, July 2025

Posted on August 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Matthew Beaumont, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London – Verso, July 2025 A captivating history of the city at night and the people, writers and workers who inhabit the London darkness In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites – Gallimard, September 2025

Posted on August 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites – Gallimard, September 2025, eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Arianna Sforzini, preface by Arianna Sforzini and a postface by Éric Fassin I’ve shared news of this book before, but the Gallimard site now has a description: En 1978, Michel … Continue reading →

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Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race – Manchester University Press, March 2025

Posted on August 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race – Manchester University Press, March 2025 Spirits of extraction revisits the troubling history of socially reformist, ostensibly anti-racist, Christianity and its role in the expansion of the … Continue reading →

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Herman Lommel and the ancient Aryans – Hegel’s great-grandson, Saussure translator and his links to Benveniste, Dumézil and Wikander

Posted on August 3, 2025 by stuartelden

In Mitra-Varuna in 1940, Georges Dumézil mentions the equation of Ahura-Mazdāh and Varuna, which he says was a “hypothesis, long accepted without argument”, but which “has subsequently been hotly disputed – wrongly, in my belief”, and that “on this point I regret … Continue reading →

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Jeremy DeWaal, Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990 – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Jeremy DeWaal, Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990 – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 New Books discussion with Jenna Pittman – thanks to dmf for the link

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Arthur Ghins, The People’s Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

Posted on August 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Arthur Ghins, The People’s Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

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Nathan Schlanger, The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan – Cambridge University Press, January 2026

Posted on August 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Nathan Schlanger, The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan – Cambridge University Press, January 2026; translation of L’Invention de la technologie: Une histoire intellectuelle avec André Leroi-Gourhan – PUF, January 2023 See also this interview with Stefanos … Continue reading →

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Andy Hines ed. University Keywords – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2025

Posted on July 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Andy Hines ed. University Keywords – Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2025 How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles. University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original understandings of 27 key terms … Continue reading →

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