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Arnault Skornicki, Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences – Springer, September 2025

Posted on September 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Arnault Skornicki, Michel Foucault, the State and the Social Sciences – Springer, September 2025 based on La grande Soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales (2017) This book proposes an original reading of Foucault’s political thought. Far from … Continue reading →

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Aaron Brice Cummings, Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre – Bloomsbury, September 2024

Posted on September 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Aaron Brice Cummings, Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre – Bloomsbury, September 2024 Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, … Continue reading →

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Glyph: Johns Hopkins Textual Studies – Samuel Weber, Deconstruction and the American Reception of French Theory

Posted on September 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Several journals played a significant role in introducing so-called ‘French Theory’ to the United States. They would include Yale French Studies, Diacritics, boundary 2 and Semiotext(e). Yale French Studies claims to be “the oldest English-language journal in the United States devoted to French and Francophone literature and … Continue reading →

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The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek

Posted on September 6, 2025 by stuartelden

The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek One volume was published in 2022, but three more are now announced. Alfred North Whitehead was one of the 20th-century’s most … Continue reading →

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Stéphane Füzesséry, La Destruction de Berlin: De l’explosion urbaine à Germania, 1860-1945 – La Découverte, August 2025

Posted on September 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Stéphane Füzesséry, La Destruction de Berlin: De l’explosion urbaine à Germania, 1860-1945 – La Découverte, August 2025 Thanks to John Raimo for the link. La croissance explosive de Berlin entre 1860 et 1910 a-t-elle favorisé la réception du nazisme ? … Continue reading →

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Books received – Febvre, Hiltebeitel, Comaroff, Kantorowicz, Glyph 7, Gadoffre, Eliade & Couliano, Harvey

Posted on September 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Books received – mostly bought second-hand, but also Joshua Comaroff, Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore, sent by University of Minnesota Press, and Ernst Kantorowicz, Radiances: Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State, edited by Robert E. Lerner, … Continue reading →

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Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis and Paul Willemarck eds., Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future – Bloomsbury, August 2025

Posted on September 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis and Paul Willemarck eds., Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future – Bloomsbury, August 2025 Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and … Continue reading →

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Sheila Hones, Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography – University of Wales Press, January 2025

Posted on September 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Sheila Hones, Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography – University of Wales Press, January 2025 A consideration of literary geography as a specialist academic field. Interspatiality is a book about the language, theory, and practice of a literary geography which takes as its … Continue reading →

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David A. Westbrook, Social Thought from the Ruins: Quixote’s Dinner Party – Routledge, August 2025, print and open access

Posted on September 4, 2025 by stuartelden

David A. Westbrook, Social Thought from the Ruins: Quixote’s Dinner Party – Routledge, August 2025, print and open access Through stories, conversations, and essays, this book pursues interwoven critical and philosophical inquiries into the nature of the contemporary in the … Continue reading →

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Kären Wigen ed., Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map – University of Chicago Press, April 2025

Posted on September 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Kären Wigen ed., Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map – University of Chicago Press, April 2025 Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality … Continue reading →

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