Author Archives: stuartelden

Michael J. Shapiro, Negotiating Civic Life: Literature, Film, Politics – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

Banu Bargu, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal – Oxford University Press, November 2024 Disembodiment examines self-destruction, self-injury, and self-endangerment as actions that express the injustices and indignities of the life conditions of impoverished, dispossessed, and dominated peoples. Author Banu Bargu … Continue reading →

Emiliano Bevilacqua, Mariano Longo, Michael Hviid Jacobsen (eds.), Love and Sexuality in Social Theory – Routledge, November 2024 Just a silly priced hardback at the moment, unfortunately. Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private … Continue reading →

Heinrich Meier, Nietzsche’s Legacy: Ecce Homo and The Antichrist, Two Books on Nature and Politics – University of Chicago Press, trans. Justin Gottschalk, March 2024 I’ve posted about this book before, but it is reviewed by Joshua Fox at NDPR … Continue reading →

Nat Dyer, Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray – Bristol University Press, November 2024 From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where … Continue reading →

Henk de Berg and Cat Moir (eds.), Rethinking Ernst Bloch – Haymarket, October 2024 Rethinking Ernst Bloch offers a critical reassessment of the thought of Ernst Bloch, best-known for his groundbreaking study The Principle of Hope and one of the most significant European thinkers and … Continue reading →

British Library update – more of the collection available, remote ordering possible, with more detail here. My anecdotal experience recently, in the two rooms I’ve used most over the past few years (Rare Books and Asian and African Studies) is … Continue reading →

Wim Carton and Andreas Malm, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown – Verso, October 2024 A devastating critique of the forces propelling us beyond critical temperature limits, by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline The … Continue reading →

Sharad Chari, Apartheid Remains – Duke University Press, May 2024 The introduction is open access here New Books discussion with Geoffrey Gordon – thanks to dmf for this link In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of … Continue reading →