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Nicolaas Buitendag, States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law – Aosis, 2023 (print and open access e-book)

Nicolaas Buitendag, States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law – Aosis, 2023 (print and open access e-book) The theoretical underpinnings of public international law have taken the sovereign status of the nation-state for granted since the … Continue reading

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, new series of Inédits – Éditions Mimesis, Vols I and II

Interesting to see a new series of Maurice Merleau-Ponty texts in progress, Inédits. I’ve seen two volumes so far, and I can’t find information on further volumes planned. At 42 euros each volume this might become expensive: Volume I Cet … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self (2023)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, What is Critique? & The Culture of the Self Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini. Introduction and critical apparatus by Daniele Lorenzini & Arnold I. Davidson Translated by Clare O’Farrell, The University…

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Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson and Thomas Elliott – MIT Press, February 2023 (and interview with translators)

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful, translated by Cory Knutson and Thomas Elliott – MIT Press, February 2023 Update: now published; there is an interview with the translators at the Acid Horizon podcast. Forthcoming…

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Michel Foucault THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE (1) Table of Contents

Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
Publication of an unpublished book manuscript by Michel Foucault: PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. Text established by Daniele Lorenzini and Orazio Irrera, under the direction of François Ewald – to be published by Gallimard/Seuil/EHESS, in May 2023 The…

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David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023

David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought – University of Chicago Press, August 2023 An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet … Continue reading

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Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Correspondance (1897-1927), eds. Rafael Faraco Benthien, Christophe Labaune and Christine Lorre – Classiques Garnier, 2021

Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Correspondance (1897-1927), eds. Rafael Faraco Benthien, Christophe Labaune and Christine Lorre – Classiques Garnier, 2021 This volume significantly increases the corpus of the writings of Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert, by making public letters exchanged during thirty … Continue reading

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Cornelius Castoriadis, The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983, translated by John Garner, María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta – Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Cornelius Castoriadis, The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982-1983, translated by John Garner, María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta – Edinburgh University Press, 2023

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Martha Nussbaum and Politics; Hannah Arendt and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023

Brandon Robshaw, Martha Nussbaum and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, January 2023 Providing an overview of the political and ethical philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, this book presents the ideas of this significant philosopher and shows how her thought, while rooted … Continue reading

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Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis (eds.), Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Manchester University Press, February 2023

Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler and Yannis Tzaninis (eds.), Turning up the heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency – Manchester University Press, February 2023 Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused … Continue reading

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