Author Archives: stuartelden

Gert-Jan van de Heiden, Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy: The Outcast and the Spirit – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on April 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Gert-Jan van de Heiden, Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy: The Outcast and the Spirit – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 (print and open access)

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Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps – MIT Press, 2024 (print and open access) and review at NDPR

Posted on April 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Roberto Casati, The Cognitive Life of Maps – MIT Press, May 2024 (print and open access) review at NDPR by Ben Blumson The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what … Continue reading →

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Fifteen ‘Sunday Histories’ on Progressive Geographies

Posted on April 17, 2025 by stuartelden

There are now fifteen ‘Sunday Histories‘ posted on Progressive Geographies – short essays about something related, directly or indirectly, to my research. I’ve been posting these weekly through 2025. I could have predicted the three on Foucault would get the … Continue reading →

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Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, paperback May 2024

Posted on April 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, paperback May 2024 Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar … Continue reading →

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Gavin Lucas and Shannon Lee Dawdy (eds.), Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart – Routledge, April 2025

Posted on April 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Gavin Lucas and Shannon Lee Dawdy (eds.), Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart – Routledge, April 2025 Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds. Although archaeologists have … Continue reading →

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Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction – Oxford University Press, November 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on April 15, 2025 by 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 →

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Lawrence Grossberg, On the Way to Theory – Duke University Press, October 2024

Posted on April 14, 2025 by stuartelden

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 →

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Elisabeth Raucq, animal names and approaches to Indo-European vocabulary

Posted on April 13, 2025 by stuartelden

In the preface to the second edition of his Mitra-Varuna, Georges Dumézil mentions some of the people who attended the lecture course which became the book. Delivered at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1938-39, this was the last year … Continue reading →

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Linda M.G. Zerilli, A Democratic Theory of Truth – University of Chicago Press, April 2025

Posted on April 12, 2025 by stuartelden

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 →

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Benoit Daviron, Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony: A Rich and Powerful History – Bloomsbury, January 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on April 11, 2025 by stuartelden

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 →

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