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Keith Tribe, Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 – Oxford University Press, April 2022 An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics  During the late nineteenth century concerns about international … Continue reading →

A Cornelius Castoriadis Forum – Journal of the History of Ideas blog For the Greek-French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), the creative power of imagination was best described in volcanic terms. Much more than a mental faculty that would store and … Continue reading →

David Zimmerman, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin: Refugee Scientists in the USSR – University of Toronto Press, January 2023 In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to … Continue reading →

Peter Baldwin, Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All – MIT Press, 2023 The book is available to buy in print and open access A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current … Continue reading →

Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics: A New Translation and Commentary, ed. Christopher Johns – Edinburgh University Press, April 2023

Teologia politica oggi? A cura di Elettra Stimilli e Arthur Bradley – Quodlibet, 2023 Nel 1922 Carl Schmitt pubblica il famoso saggio Teologia politica. L’intento di questo libro è quello di interrogarsi sul testo di Schmitt, esattamente cento anni dopo la … Continue reading →

Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain – Harvard University Press/Allen Lane, June 2023 One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked … Continue reading →

Martin Jay, Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure – Verso, October 2023 update November 2023: there is a New Books discussion with Ryan Tripp here Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin … Continue reading →

Daniel Loick, The Abuse of Property, trans. Jacob Blumenfeld – MIT Press, August 2023 A fundamental critique of the current property regime, calling for radical social and political change. In The Abuse of Property, Daniel Loick offers a multifaceted philosophical critique … Continue reading →