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My favourite academic books of 2023

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading

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The music of my 2023

The music I enjoyed most from 2023, either bought in physical form, often through Burning Shed, or digitally through bandcamp: For previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012. I didn’t get to see much music live, and missed a few due to illness, but … Continue reading

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Simone Weil, Basic Writings, eds. D.K. Levy and Marina Barabas, Routledge, December 2023

Simone Weil, Basic Writings, eds. D.K. Levy and Marina Barabas, Routledge, December 2023 Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher, factory and farm labourer, a political activist at home and … Continue reading

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christian Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023

Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881) – trans. J.M. Baker, Jr. and Christiane Hertel, Stanford University Press, December 2023 This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche’s unpublished notes from late 1879 to … Continue reading

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Fascism Vol 12 No 2 Special Issue: (Re)Living Greece and Rome: Performances of Classical Antiquity under Fascism, edited by Eleftheria Ioannidou, Giovanna Di Martino and Sara Troiani

Fascism Vol 12 No 2 Special Issue: (Re)Living Greece and Rome: Performances of Classical Antiquity under Fascism, edited by Eleftheria Ioannidou, Giovanna Di Martino and Sara Troiani The papers are currently available open access.

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Call for Abstracts: Warwick Graduate Conference in Political and Legal Theory – 10 February 2024 

Call for Abstracts: Warwick Graduate Conference in Political and Legal Theory   Please join the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) at the University of Warwick … Continue reading

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British Library new temporary site – but a concerning (realistic?) assessment of time to get back up and running

The British Library has a new temporary site up, with much more information available since I last checked. But in their FAQ they are anticipating ‘several months’ to assess and repair, and indicate similar organisations have taken over 12 months … Continue reading

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Tobias Keiling and Ian Alexander Moore, Spoiling the Party? Heidegger’s Lectures on Trakl at Spa Bühlerhöhe – b2o (boundary 2 online)

Tobias Keiling and Ian Alexander Moore, Spoiling the Party? Heidegger’s Lectures on Trakl at Spa Bühlerhöhe – b2o (boundary 2 online)

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Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer, Columbia University Press, December 2023

Julia Kristeva, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex, trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer, Columbia University Press, December 2023

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Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad, The History of Knowledge – trans. Lena Olsson, Cambridge University Press, January 2024 (print and open access)

Johan Östling and David Larsson Heidenblad, The History of Knowledge – trans. Lena Olsson, Cambridge University Press, January 2024 (print and open access) Despite the date, the e-book is available now. This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of … Continue reading

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