Author Archives: stuartelden

Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction – Oxford University Press, November 2025 Update February 2026: New Books discussion with Caleb Zakarin – thanks to dmf for the link Human geography offers answers to some of … Continue reading →

Lawrence Grossberg, On the Way to Theory – Duke University Press, October 2024 Thanks to Foucault News for the link. Introduction available open access. In On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory … Continue reading →

Linda M.G. Zerilli, A Democratic Theory of Truth – University of Chicago Press, April 2025 A critique of the concept of truth presupposed by the post-truth debate—and a bold new vision for a more pluralistic citizenry. We say that we … Continue reading →

Benoit Daviron, Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony: A Rich and Powerful History – Bloomsbury, January 2025 (print and open access) How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has … Continue reading →

Naomi Fisher, Schelling’s Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802 – Oxford University Press, May 2024 Schelling came of age during the pivotal and exciting years at the end of the eighteenth century, as Kant’s philosophy was being incorporated into the German academic world. … Continue reading →

David L. Prytherch, Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets – University of Minnesota Press, June 2025 For the past century, our roadways have been engineered as pipes for cars, but they offer vast potential as public spaces. From … Continue reading →

Frédéric Keck, Solidarity Between Species: Living with Animals Exposed to Pandemic Viruses – Polity, May 2025 This book examines how the Covid-19 pandemic can be described as a biopolitical crisis, taking into account a fact often overlooked by commentators: Covid-19 … Continue reading →

David Beer, ‘When Simmel met Rodin‘, Half Thoughts

William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics and the Making of Citizens – University of Chicago Press, May 2024 New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for this link A wide-ranging history tracing the … Continue reading →