Author Archives: stuartelden

Disalienation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Camille Robcis – Journal of the History of Ideas blog (audio)

Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy – Columbia University Press, November 2024 To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, … Continue reading →

Federico Gallo, Diplomatics: the science of reading medieval documents A Handbook – Milano University Press, 2024 (open access) The book is in English, but I can only find this abstract: La Diplomatica è la scienza che studia i documenti, in … Continue reading →

Quinn Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right – Zone, April 2025 Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors … Continue reading →

Andrew Hui, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries – Princeton University Press, December 2024 With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells … Continue reading →

Eliza Randazzo and Hannah Richter, Challenging Anthropocene Ontology: Modernity, Ecology and Indigenous Complexities – Bloomsbury, May 2024 Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous … Continue reading →

Damion Searls, The Philosophy of Translation – Yale University Press, October 2024 A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners Avoiding theoretical debates and clichéd metaphors, award‑winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh, … Continue reading →

I’ve done a bit of tidying up and made a few additions to the ‘Lefebvre resources‘ page on this site. It includes Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – my guide to his books in English, to a few untranslated … Continue reading →