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Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on January 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Albert Camus, The Complete Notebooks – trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, November 2025 The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume. Throughout his … Continue reading →

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Holly Brewer, The King’s Slaves: The British Empire and the Origins of American Slavery – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026

Posted on January 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Holly Brewer, The King’s Slaves: The British Empire and the Origins of American Slavery – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026 The original draft of the Declaration of Independence condemned British kings for supporting slavery in their empire. England’s two seventeenth-century revolutions … Continue reading →

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Clémence Ramnoux – Mythology, Psychology, Philosophy

Posted on January 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Clémence Ramnoux (1905-1997) was an important French scholar of ancient Greece. She worked mostly on the pre-Socratics, especially Heraclitus. Alongside Simone Pétrement she was one of the first two women who entered the philosophy programme of the École Normale Supérieure in 1927. Simone Weil … Continue reading →

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H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery eds. Southern Epistemologies: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon – Hau Books, June 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on January 10, 2026 by stuartelden

H. Clark Barrett, Michael L. Cepek, Pablo Quintanilla, Emanuele Fabiano, and Edouard Machery eds. Southern Epistemologies: Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding in the Andes and Western Amazon – Hau Books, June 2026 (print and open access) What does it mean to … Continue reading →

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Shirley Samuels, Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States – Princeton University Press, October/December 2025

Posted on January 9, 2026 by stuartelden

Shirley Samuels, Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States – Princeton University Press, October/December 2025 In Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins … Continue reading →

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Mary Gilmartin, Malene H. Jacobsen, Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction – Wiley, January 2026

Posted on January 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Mary Gilmartin, Malene H. Jacobsen, Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction – Wiley, January 2026 Migration: A Critical Introduction offers a fresh and accessible framework for understanding migration through a distinctly geographical lens. Going beyond traditional borders and categories, this book examines the … Continue reading →

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Antoine Compagnon, 1966, année mirifique – Gallimard, January 2026

Posted on January 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Antoine Compagnon, 1966, année mirifique – Gallimard, January 2026 Thanks to John Raimo for the link « L’année des cheveux longs et de la minijupe », résume le journal rétrospectif des Actualités françaises le 27 décembre 1966. Sommet des Trente Glorieuses, arrivée … Continue reading →

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Arden Shakespeare fourth series – first three volumes scheduled

Posted on January 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Arden Shakespeare fourth series – first three volumes scheduled Julius Caesar, edited by Andrew James Hartley Titus Andronicus, edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson As You Like It, edited by Tom Bishop The first two are scheduled for May, … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Douglas, The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice – Princeton University Press, April/June 2026

Posted on January 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Lawrence Douglas, The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice – Princeton University Press, April/June 2026 The Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad … Continue reading →

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Anthony Gottlieb, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes – Yale University Press, January 2026

Posted on January 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Anthony Gottlieb, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes – Yale University Press, January 2026 The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century … Continue reading →

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