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Joseph Thomas Milburn ed. Haruki Murakami and Philosophical Concepts – Springer, 2025

Joseph Thomas Milburn ed. Haruki Murakami and Philosophical Concepts – Springer, 2025 This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the work of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with a particular focus on the conceptual material of his work. It seeks to answer … Continue reading

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Paul W. Schroeder, America’s Fatal Leap: 1991-2016 and Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered – Verso, February 2025, introductions by Perry Anderson

Paul W. Schroeder, America’s Fatal Leap: 1991-2016 and Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered – Verso, February 2025, introductions by Perry Anderson A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of … Continue reading

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Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco (ed.), The History and Philosophy of Boredom – Routledge, June 2025

Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco (ed.), The History and Philosophy of Boredom – Routledge, June 2025

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“Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas” – audio recording of talk at Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

On 16 June 2025 I gave a short talk with the title “Before California: Foucault’s Early Visits to the Americas”, to the Remembering/Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy workshop at the Maison Française, Oxford. The audio recording of my talk … Continue reading

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Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025

Henry Somers-Hall and Jeffrey A. Bell (eds.), The Deleuzian Mind – Routledge, May 2025

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“Political Emotions on the Far Right”, TANK – papers from Remarque Institute workshop in November 2024

“Political Emotions on the Far Right”, TANK – papers from Remarque Institute workshop in November 2024 Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog, Zahid R. Chaudhary, Fabian Muniesa, Alberto Toscano and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

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Josué V. Harari, the Marquis de Sade, and Michel Foucault’s 1970 lectures in Buffalo

Josué V. Harari plays a small but important role in the story of Foucault in the United States. A PhD researcher at the University at Buffalo when Foucault visited in the early 1970s, he went on to edit a 1979 volume … Continue reading

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“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby – Journal of History of Ideas blog; Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism – University of Minnesota Press, June 2025

“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby – Journal of History of Ideas blog with Robin Manley Leif Weatherby is an Associate Professor of German at New York University, where he directs the Digital Theory Lab. Robin Manley spoke … Continue reading

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Christoph Schuringa, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy – Verso, June 2025

Christoph Schuringa, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy – Verso, June 2025 How a supposedly apolitical form of philosophy owes its continuing power to social and political forces Analytic philosophy is the leading … Continue reading

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Fanon’s Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 – Birkbeck, 27-28 June 2025

Fanon’s Philosophical Legacy: Fanon at 100 – Birkbeck, 27-28 June 2025 2025 marks the centenary year of the birth of Frantz Fanon. Despite Fanon’s enormous influence in postcolonial studies, political thought, the history of Marxism and the humanities more widely, … Continue reading

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