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Paul Allen Miller, Theory does not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric – Anthem, May 2024 This book is a wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, … Continue reading →

Jamie Draper and David Owen (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement – Oxford University Press, March 2024 The situation of internally displaced persons has been a matter of international concern – and legal debate – since at least the … Continue reading →

Felix Anderl (ed.), Epistemologies of Land – Rowman & Littlefield, January 2024

Clare O’Farrell shares some passages from Foucault’s draft of his lecture ‘What is Critique?’ which are included in the recently translated critical edition of the text. “What Is Critique?” and “The Culture of the Self”, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele … Continue reading →

Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought – Princeton University Press, November 2024 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. … Continue reading →

Benjamin Fraser, “The scholarly journal as puzzle: On time, collaboration and closure” (open access) As the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (JUCS) closes its tenth year of publication, this second instalment of a two-part editorial turns towards questions regarding the nature of … Continue reading →

French interview with Carlo Ginzburg

Simona Forti, Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy – Stanford University Press, January 2024 In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking … Continue reading →