Author Archives: stuartelden

There have been twelve UK prime ministers in my lifetime – Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. Only five became prime minister because of a general election (Heath, Wilson, Thatcher, Blair, Cameron). Only four … Continue reading →

Andy Merrifield, “A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia“

Peter Salmon, “Paper Trails“, on philosophers and their archives, Aeon Essays In part a review of the newly translated book on How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption by Philipp Felsch, it has a wider discussion … Continue reading →

Adrian Little, Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

Matthijs Lok, Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past – Oxford University Press, March 2023 Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative … Continue reading →

Genevieve Lloyd, Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel – Stanford University Press, September 2024 Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though the term … Continue reading →

Neal Alexander and David Cooper (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies – Routledge, August 2024 The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. … Continue reading →