Category Archives: People

Keith Ansell-Pearson, Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom: The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 

Posted on December 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Keith Ansell-Pearson, Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom: The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage – University of Chicago Press, May 2025  An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher. Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but … Continue reading →

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John Schad, Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on December 8, 2025 by stuartelden

John Schad, Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access) In July 1940, amidst fear of Nazi invasion, HMT Dunera left England. On board were a few British soldiers guarding over 2000 interned male … Continue reading →

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Huguette Fugier’s study of the vocabulary of the sacred in Latin, and Giorgio Agamben’s other sources for the notion of the homo sacer

Posted on December 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Huguette Fugier’s 1963 book Recherches sur l’expression du sacré dans la langue latine seems little known today, which is unfortunate given its interest and importance. In the opening lines, she describes it is “a study of historical semantics, applied to the Roman … Continue reading →

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Carl Schmitt, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier – trans Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, Polity, December 2025

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Carl Schmitt, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier – trans Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, Polity, December 2025 Newly published for the first time in English translation, Carl Schmitt’s 1934 tract, … Continue reading →

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Sean Meighoo, Postcolonial Derrida – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Sean Meighoo, Postcolonial Derrida – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Engin Isin, The Birth of Sensory Power: Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on December 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Engin Isin, The Birth of Sensory Power: Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Books received – Porshnev, Jameson, Coveney, de Menasce, Foucault, Medby, Chimisso, Blencowe, Braudel, Jakobson

Posted on December 4, 2025 by stuartelden

A few books bought recently, mostly second-hand; Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, Cristina Chimisso, Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences, Ingrid Medley, Arctic State Identity and Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction, in recompense for review work; and Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Renaud Lariagon and Simon Le Roulley eds. Henri Lefebvre: Actualités – Éditions Grevis, December 2025

Posted on December 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Renaud Lariagon and Simon Le Roulley eds. Henri Lefebvre: Actualités – Éditions Grevis, December 2025 Henri Lefebvre : actualités défend l’actualisation de la pensée de Lefebvre (1901-1991) à travers des contributions d’auteurs d’Amérique latine et d’Europe. Ce recueil met en … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law – University of Warwick, 3 December 2025

Posted on November 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law – University of Warwick, 3 December 2025

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100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today

Posted on November 30, 2025 by stuartelden

On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatories. Negotiated in Switzerland in October, the final signing was in … Continue reading →

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