Author Archives: stuartelden

Books received – Vendryes, Critique, Jakobson & Pomorska, Rose, Zerelli, Nabokov & Wilson, Koyré, Wikander, Jakobson & Fischer-Jørgensen

Posted on May 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand while in New York, but also the recent Critique issue on Canguilhem, the new translation of Stig Wikander, The Aryan Männerbund, and Linda M.G. Zerelli, A Democratic Theory of Truth.

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Michael Hagner, Seeing Foucault’s Pendulum: Between Science, Politics, and Art, trans. Robert Savage, Zone Books, September/November 2025

Posted on May 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Hagner, Seeing Foucault’s Pendulum: Between Science, Politics, and Art, trans. Robert Savage, Zone Books, September/November 2025 In 1851, the physicist Léon Foucault performed an unforgettable experiment. By suspending a large pendulum inside the dome of Paris’ Pantheon, Foucault provided the … Continue reading →

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Alison Bashford, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on May 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Alison Bashford, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 The astonishing story of palmistry—from occultists to the very foundations of modern science and medicine.  Why did Isaac Newton read books on … Continue reading →

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David Eltis, Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades – Cambridge University Press, February 2025

Posted on May 15, 2025 by stuartelden

David Eltis, Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades – Cambridge University Press, February 2025 In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in … Continue reading →

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Darya Tsymbalyuk, Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War – Polity, June 2025

Posted on May 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Darya Tsymbalyuk, Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War – Polity, June 2025 Russia’s war on Ukraine has not only destroyed millions of human lives, it has also been catastrophic for the environment. Forests and fields have been … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on May 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading →

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Jen Rose Smith, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic – Duke University Press, May 2025

Posted on May 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Jen Rose Smith, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic – Duke University Press, May 2025 Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval … Continue reading →

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Alphonso Lingis, in memoriam

Posted on May 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Graham Harman with a tribute to Alphonso Lingis, who died a few days ago. Thanks also to dmf for a comment on a post with a link to a book about Lingis.

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The Murder of Ioan Culianu – Eliade, Anton, Eco, Lincoln and the University of Chicago

Posted on May 11, 2025 by stuartelden

The story sounds like a detective novel or a spy thriller. A professor of the history of religion at the University of Chicago is shot at close range in the third-floor bathroom of Swift Hall in 1991. The killing is … Continue reading →

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Aimé Césaire, Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem, trans. Kate Nash – Polity, February 2025

Posted on May 10, 2025 by stuartelden

Aimé Césaire, Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem, trans. Kate Nash – Polity, February 2025 This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in … Continue reading →

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