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“For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science”, Luca Sciortino, The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025 (open access)

Posted on July 4, 2025 by stuartelden

“For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science“, Luca Sciortino, The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025 On 21 November 2024, in Rome, the historian … Continue reading →

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Paulina Tambakaki, Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

Posted on July 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Paulina Tambakaki, Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

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Books received – Garber, Serres, Spanos, Bové & O’Hara, Trubetzkoy & Jakobson, Boulez

Posted on July 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, now in paperback; Michel Serres, Hermes II: Interference; the older collection The Question of Textuality: Strategies of Reading in Contemporary American Criticism; Nikolai Trubetzkoy’s correspondence with Roman Jakobson in French translation; and Pierre Boulez’s lectures … Continue reading →

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Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025

Posted on July 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025 For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication—the novels, biographies, … Continue reading →

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Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 and JHI blog interview

Posted on July 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 JHI blog interview with Alec Israeli The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created … Continue reading →

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on July 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025)

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025) (via Foucault News) This issue of Foucault Studies is the first to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/foucault-studies/. The journal retains its full intellectual independence and keeps publishing according to a diamond open access … Continue reading →

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading →

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Leonard Robert Palmer, Elisabeth/Elizabeth Palmer and the “Studies in General Linguistics” series – a note on the English editors and translators of André Martinet and Émile Benveniste

Posted on June 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Leonard Robert Palmer (1906-1984) was a British linguist, important both for his own work and as an editor. Early in his career he taught Classics at the Victoria University of Manchester, became Chair of Greek at King’s College London, and from … Continue reading →

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Sven Reichardt, “What is Post-Fascism?” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on June 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Sven Reichardt, “What is Post-Fascism?” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

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