Author Archives: stuartelden

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 →

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 →