Author Archives: stuartelden

Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Afterword by Martin Jay, edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott, Verso Books, July 2024 Update October 2024: there is a review by Adrian Wilding in Historical Materialism (open access) Lectures on … Continue reading →

Stanley Aronowitz, Live Theory: The Aronowitz Reader, foreword by Cornel West, edited by Peter Bratsis, Bruno Gulli, Kristin Lawler, and Michael Pelias – Columbia University Press, September 2024 Stanley Aronowitz was a towering figure on the American Left for over sixty … Continue reading →

Étienne Achille and Oana Panaïté, Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing – Oxford University Press, March 2024 Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writingengages with Whiteness in French literature to provide an unprecedented … Continue reading →

Somogy Varga, Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry: A Philosophical Analysis – Cambridge Univesity Press, May 2024 After its unparalleled rise and expansion over the past century, medicine is increasingly criticized both as a science and clinical practice for lacking … Continue reading →

David Lay Williams, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx – Princeton University Press, Sept/Oct 2024 Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often … Continue reading →

Louise Boyle, Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety – Routledge, June 2024 Anxious Geographies offers a unique perspective on social anxiety, framing it as both a social and spatial phenomenon. Through a meticulous exploration using online questionnaires and interviews, the book … Continue reading →

Melanie Lombard and Philipp Horn, Urban Informality: An Introduction – Bristol University Press, June 2024 This book is the first to provide an introductory overview to the concept of ‘urban informality’, taking an international perspective across the global North and … Continue reading →

Nathan Schlanger, L’Invention de la technologie: Une histoire intellectuelle avec André Leroi-Gourhan – PUF, January 2023 According to this interview with Stefanos Geroulanos, an English translation is forthcoming. La technologie, entendue comme la discipline qui étudie les techniques, prend son … Continue reading →

Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction – University of Minnesota Press, September 2024 Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned … Continue reading →