Author Archives: stuartelden

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 →

David Bather Woods, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with … Continue reading →

Sam Chian, “Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University: C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in Postwar America” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog