Author Archives: stuartelden

Quentin Deluermoz, The Paris Commune: A Global History – Verso, May 2026 The Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideas  In 1871 and over the years to follow, the impact of the Paris Commune … Continue reading →

Martin Jay, Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reechantment, and the Photograph – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between “conventional” and “magical” nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, … Continue reading →

Stefania Achella, Bojana Jovićević, Francesca Iannelli, and Eleonora Caramelli eds. Against the “Law of the Father”: Hegel’s Disobedient Readings – Brill, February 2026 Why discuss disobedience in relation to Hegel? The answer lies in how his philosophy, particularly through his … Continue reading →

Caroline Kuzemko, Climate Politics: Can’t Live with It, Can’t Mitigate without It, Cambridge University Press, February 2026 (print and open access) By exploring the dynamic relationships between politics, policymaking, and policy over time, this book aims to explain why climate … Continue reading →

Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader, eds. Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett – University of Chicago Press, April 2026 Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working Knowledge is the … Continue reading →

Dror Yinon, Deleuze and the Problem of Experience: Transcendental Empiricism – Bloomsbury, July 2025 NDPR review by George Webster This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the … Continue reading →