Author Archives: stuartelden

CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

CFP: Reassessing Foucault’s Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary Legacy, University of Pisa, 30-31 January 2026

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Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023, paperback July 2025 and NDPR review

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions – Princeton University Press, October 2023 NDPR review by Bernardo Ferro G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, … Continue reading →

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Cristy Clark, Legal Geographies of Water: The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations – Routledge, June 2025

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Cristy Clark, Legal Geographies of Water: The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations – Routledge, June 2025 Discussion on Law at the End of the World podcast – thanks to dmf for the link. This book deepens our understanding … Continue reading →

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Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa – Cambridge University Press, July 2025

Posted on July 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa – Cambridge University Press, July 2025

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Sophie E. Battell, On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 and open access

Posted on July 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Sophie E. Battell, On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 and open access

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Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library at 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard update October 2025: the database is now available. Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Sadi Shanaah, The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society, and Countering Radicalization – Oxford University Press, June 2025

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Sadi Shanaah, The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society, and Countering Radicalization – Oxford University Press, June 2025 The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism explores how counter-radicalization policies have come to dominate European counterterrorism and security. … Continue reading →

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Eugenio Donato and “The Structuralist Controversy” conference – proceedings, recordings, Foucault and Flaubert

Posted on July 6, 2025 by stuartelden

The 18-21 October 1966 Baltimore conference on structuralism has long been recognised as important for the reception of French theory in the United States. Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Lucien Goldmann, Jean Hyppolite, Jacques Lacan and Jean-Pierre Vernant were some of … Continue reading →

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Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025

Posted on July 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025 This book concerns the elemental geographies and lives and deaths of the drowned to confront enduring forms of oppression. Elaine Stratford documents with penetrating compassion and acumen how human … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025

Posted on July 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025 How today’s dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty. The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has … Continue reading →

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