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Peter Sloterdijk, The Terrible Children of Modernity: An Antigenealogical Experiment, trans. Oliver Berghof, intro. Efraín Kristal, Columbia University Press, June 2025 Peter Sloterdijk is among the most acclaimed and widely read philosophers of the past half-century. Called “Germany’s most controversial thinker” … Continue reading →

Kelly Dombroski, Mark Goodwin, Junxi Qian, Andrew Williams, Paul Cloke eds. Human Geography, fourth edition, Routledge, August 2024 Introducing Human Geographies is a ‘travel guide’ into the academic subject of human geography and the things that it studies. The coverage of … Continue reading →

Critique 935 – Après Canguilhem: Nouveaux dialogues entre médecine et philosophie « Ôtez Canguilhem et vous ne comprenez plus grand-chose à toute une série de discussions. » Par ces mots, Michel Foucault faisait de Georges Canguilhem l’invisible clef de voûte de la … Continue reading →

Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science – Springer, 2024 This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically … Continue reading →

Alain Corbin, Fragility: A History of Plaster, trans. Helen Morrison – Polity, June 2025 The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since … Continue reading →