Author Archives: stuartelden

Thomas Piketty and Michael J. Sandel, Equality: What it Means and Why it Matters – Polity, January 2025 In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and … Continue reading →

Denis J.B. Shaw, Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613-1825 – UCL Press, October 2024 (print and open access) Like many European countries during the Great Age of Discovery and Exploration, Russia embarked on policies of state building, … Continue reading →

Elias J. Palti, Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change, Cambridge University Press, May 2024 How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elías José Palti … Continue reading →

Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger’s Magical Materialism – Fordham University Press, September 2024 The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities … Continue reading →

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 Update October 2025: New Books discussion with Gina Stamm. Uncovers the nonhuman turn’s unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France French Technological … Continue reading →