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Martin Jay, Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reechantment, and the Photograph – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between “conventional” and “magical” nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, … Continue reading →

Stefania Achella, Bojana Jovićević, Francesca Iannelli, and Eleonora Caramelli eds. Against the “Law of the Father”: Hegel’s Disobedient Readings – Brill, February 2026 Why discuss disobedience in relation to Hegel? The answer lies in how his philosophy, particularly through his … Continue reading →

Caroline Kuzemko, Climate Politics: Can’t Live with It, Can’t Mitigate without It, Cambridge University Press, February 2026 (print and open access) By exploring the dynamic relationships between politics, policymaking, and policy over time, this book aims to explain why climate … Continue reading →

Working Knowledge: A Simon Schaffer Reader, eds. Charlotte Bigg, John Tresch, and Simon Werrett – University of Chicago Press, April 2026 Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working Knowledge is the … Continue reading →

Dror Yinon, Deleuze and the Problem of Experience: Transcendental Empiricism – Bloomsbury, July 2025 NDPR review by George Webster This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the … Continue reading →

Teresa M. Bejan, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism — Harvard University Press, October 2026 An incisive account of how equality transformed from an abstract ideal into a concrete social and political vision, thanks to seventeenth-century English dissidents … Continue reading →

Joseph Tonda, Postcolonial Imperialism: Critique of the Society of Dazzlements – trans. Cheryl Smeall, Duke University Press, April 2026 Introduction available open access Postcolonial Imperialism considers the inability to distinguish between reality and fiction as a key condition of contemporary life. … Continue reading →

Joseph Acquisto, Baudelaire’s Objects – Bloomsbury, May 2026 Examines Baudelaire’s multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose poetry, as well as the ways his poems reshape our understanding of objects and how those … Continue reading →