Author Archives: stuartelden

Nick Nesbitt, Reading Capital’s Materialist Dialectic: Marx, Spinoza and the Althusserians – Brill, May 2024 (print and open access) While the explicit Althusserian engagement with Marx’s Capital remained largely limited to Reading Capital, after 1968, Nick Nesbitt argues, this theoretical intervention remained … Continue reading →

Olivia Weisser (ed.), Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis – Routledge, March 2024 Part of the Routledge series – Guides to Using Historical Sources This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection … Continue reading →

Strabo’s Geography: A Translation for the Modern World, trans. Sarah Pothecary – Princeton University Press, June/August 2024 Strabo’s Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it appeared to a contemporary observer in the early Roman empire. Information about taming elephants, collecting … Continue reading →

Danielle Rosvally, Theatres of Value: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City – SUNY Press, July 2024 Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these … Continue reading →

Jacques Rancière on Eric Hazan at Sidecar – Grand Éditeur There is an infinitely reductive way of commemorating Eric Hazan, simply by saluting him as a courageous publisher and defender of the radical left, an unyielding supporter of the rights … Continue reading →