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Shelley Lynn Tremain (ed.) The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, Bloomsbury, December 2023

Posted on February 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Shelley Lynn Tremain (ed.) The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, Bloomsbury, December 2023 The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher … Continue reading →

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Alexander Aerts, “Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on January 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Alexander Aerts, “Alexandre Kojève: Bildung in a Revolutionary Cell” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog In 1918 the Russian-French philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) was caught selling soap on the black-market in Moscow by the Tchèka, the political police … Continue reading →

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Mathelinda Nabugodi, Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic – UCL Press, January 2023 (open access)

Posted on January 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Mathelinda Nabugodi, Shelley with Benjamin: A Critical Mosaic – UCL Press, January 2023 (open access) *Yet what surprises me most of all at this time is that what I have written consists, as it were, almost entirely of quotations. – … Continue reading →

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Kevin B. Anderson, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism – Verso, March 2025

Posted on January 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Kevin B. Anderson, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism – Verso, March 2025 The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism. In his late writings, Marx went beyond the … Continue reading →

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Jenny Edkins, Maja Zehfuss and Thomas Gregory (eds.), Global Politics: A New Introduction 4th Edition – Routledge, 2025

Posted on January 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Jenny Edkins, Maja Zehfuss and Thomas Gregory (eds.), Global Politics: A New Introduction 4th Edition – Routledge, 2025 Global Politics: A New Introduction engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. From that … Continue reading →

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Melayna Kay Lamb, A Philosophical History of Police Power – Bloomsbury, February 2024, paperback September 2025

Posted on January 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Melayna Kay Lamb, A Philosophical History of Police Power – Bloomsbury, February 2024, paperback September 2025 Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police … Continue reading →

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Paula Diehl and Michael Saward, Bodies, Spaces, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation – Oxford University Press, February 2025

Posted on January 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Paula Diehl and Michael Saward, Bodies, Spaces, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation – Oxford University Press, February 2025 There is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, and even celebrities appear in public, they make … Continue reading →

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Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025

Posted on January 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025 Update December 2025: New Books discussion with Lucas Tse A luminous biography of one of the 20th century’s most influential historians Christopher Hill was one of … Continue reading →

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Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (1900-1940): an important scholar of Celtic languages and mythology

Posted on January 26, 2025 by stuartelden

One of the challenges with my current project on Indo-European thought in France is how male-dominated it is. If you look at a photograph of the professors of the Collège de France in 1967, you can perhaps see why. It wasn’t much better at the … Continue reading →

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Christopher Burke and Adam Tamas Tuboly, Otto Neurath in Britain – Cambridge University Press, January 2025

Posted on January 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Christopher Burke and Adam Tamas Tuboly, Otto Neurath in Britain – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 Otto Neurath (1882–1945) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist and political economist, and one of the most multi-faceted and creative thinkers in the … Continue reading →

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