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Hannah Lucas, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being – Columbia University Press, January 2025 

Hannah Lucas, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being – Columbia University Press, January 2025  The medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–after 1416) is the first known woman to author a book in the English language, recognized today for … Continue reading

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Working on the proofs of the critical edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna – forthcoming in December 2024 with HAU books

It has taken a long time to get to this stage, but I’m now working on the proofs of the critical edition of Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty – forthcoming in December 2024 with … Continue reading

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Books received – The Anti-Security Collective, Barthes, de Beistegui, Duchesne-Guillemin, Nabokov, JHI, Barua, Dumézil

A pile of recently bought or sent books including The Anti-Security Collective, The Security Abolition Manifesto, Miguel de Beistegui, Lacan: A Genealogy, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Zoroastre, Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of The Song of Igor’s Campaign, the most recent issue of the … Continue reading

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Tamara Caraus, Militant Cosmopolitics: Another World Horizon – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024 (paperback)

now in paperback – Tamara Caraus, Militant Cosmopolitics: Another World Horizon – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

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Ianir Milevski (ed.), Marxist Archaeology Today – Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archaeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century – Brill, September 2023

Ianir Milevski (ed.), Marxist Archaeology Today – Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archaeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century – Brill, September 2023 With this series, usually paperbacks follow 12 months after publication with Haymarket. This … Continue reading

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Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia: The Rhetoric of Resistance – Palgrave, September 2024

Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia: The Rhetoric of Resistance – Palgrave, September 2024 This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia—the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor—and … Continue reading

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Simin Fadaee, Global Marxism: Decolonisation and revolutionary politics – Manchester University Press, September 2024

Simin Fadaee, Global Marxism: Decolonisation and revolutionary politics – Manchester University Press, September 2024 A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. For much of the twentieth century, the … Continue reading

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Daniel G. König (ed.), Entangled Worlds: 600-1350 — Harvard University Press, March 2025

Daniel G. König (ed.), Entangled Worlds: 600-1350 — Harvard University Press, March 2025 The period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries is hardly thought of as an era of globalization. Entire societies in the Americas, Australia, and Oceania developed in relative … Continue reading

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Matthew J. Smetona, Recovering the Later Georg Lukács: A Study on the Unity of His Thought – MIT Press, April 2023

Matthew J. Smetona, Recovering the Later Georg Lukács: A Study on the Unity of His Thought – MIT Press, April 2023 New resources for the critique of capitalism in culture from the late writings of Georg Lukács, one of the … Continue reading

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Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (eds.), Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics – Bloomsbury, August 2024

Valentina Antoniol and Stefano Marino (eds.), Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics – Bloomsbury, August 2024 Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential … Continue reading

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