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The Invention of Prehistory: A Dialogue with Stefanos Geroulanos

The Invention of Prehistory: A Dialogue with Stefanos Geroulanos They are talking about his new book, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins (Liveright, April 2024) In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Stefanos Geroulanos … Continue reading

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The Archaeology of Foucault reviewed by David Beer in The Times Literary Supplement

My 2023 book The Archaeology of Foucault is generously reviewed by David Beer in The Times Literary Supplement The review requires subscription, but email me if you can’t access a copy through an institution. Imagine Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes … Continue reading

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Andy Merrifield, ‘The Subaltern in Gramsci’

Andy Merrifield, ‘The Subaltern in Gramsci‘ Gramsci saw the whole of the Italian “South” as a kind of goblin, as a character who got and keeps getting a bad rap, like Rumpelstiltskin. In late 1926, a month or so prior … Continue reading

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On Book Reviews – Daily Nous, NDPR and more

The Daily Nous has a short piece about the decline in the number of book reviews at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR), with some comments about why this might be. Daily Nons will share news of open access book reviews, … Continue reading

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Mathieu Dejean, Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse – trans. David Fernbach, Verso blog 

Mathieu Dejean, Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse – trans. David Fernbach, Verso blog (open access) In 1958, during the insurrectionary events that preceded General de Gaulle’s return to power, 57-year-old Henri Lefebvre faced two ‘comrades’ from the French Communist Party in … Continue reading

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Aaron Clift, Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953 – Oxford University Press, 2023; and New Books interview

Aaron Clift, Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953 – Oxford University Press, 2023 Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953 evaluates the prevalence of anticommunism among the French population in 1945 to 1953, and examines its causes, character, and consequences … Continue reading

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Peter E. Gordon, A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 (and podcast interview)

Peter E. Gordon, A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness. “Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation … Continue reading

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“Translating China in the Changing Political Economy, 1920s-2020s”, Recordings of British Academy Symposium, March 25, 2024 – Julia Ng and others

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Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People – Basic Books, October 2024

Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People – Hachette, October 2024 The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought   At the dawn … Continue reading

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Swati Srivastava, Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics – Cambridge University Press, March 2024

Swati Srivastava, Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics – Cambridge University Press, March 2024 The idea of ‘hybrid sovereignty’ describes overlapping relations between public and private actors in important areas of global power, such as contractors fighting international wars, corporations regulating … Continue reading

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