Author Archives: stuartelden

David L. Prytherch, Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets – University of Minnesota Press, June 2025 For the past century, our roadways have been engineered as pipes for cars, but they offer vast potential as public spaces. From … Continue reading →

Frédéric Keck, Solidarity Between Species: Living with Animals Exposed to Pandemic Viruses – Polity, May 2025 This book examines how the Covid-19 pandemic can be described as a biopolitical crisis, taking into account a fact often overlooked by commentators: Covid-19 … Continue reading →

David Beer, ‘When Simmel met Rodin‘, Half Thoughts

William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics and the Making of Citizens – University of Chicago Press, May 2024 New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for this link A wide-ranging history tracing the … Continue reading →

David Bather Woods, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with … Continue reading →

Sam Chian, “Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University: C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in Postwar America” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog