Author Archives: stuartelden

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott – Hau Books, February 2025 A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translated into English for the first time. André Leroi-Gourhan … Continue reading →

Nedim Nomer and Kaya Șahin, Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World – Oxford University Press, March 2025 This collection of papers is intended to provide a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its … Continue reading →

Lynne Huffer, These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction – Duke University Press, May 2025 A collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffer’s These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. … Continue reading →

Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little (eds.), Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and its Legacies – Oxford University Press, December 2024  The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and … Continue reading →

Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel, Rethinking Global History, Cambridge University Press, November 2024 (open access and print) Despite three decades of rapid expansion and public success, global history’s theoretical and methodological foundations remain under-conceptualised, even to those using them. In … Continue reading →

Owen Ware, Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany – Routledge, October 2023 There is a New Books discussion with Malcolm Keating. Thanks to dmf for the link. This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and … Continue reading →

Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities – Routledge, November 2024 The Introduction is available open access. Volume I was published in 2022. Architecture and the urban … Continue reading →

Sonia Lavaert, Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza: Freedom, Equality, Multitude – trans. Albert Gootjes, Edinburgh University Press, October 2024 Prohibitively priced hardback and e-book only In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Spinoza effected a reversal in the … Continue reading →