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Charlotte Thevenet, Derrida et ses doubles – Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, November 2023

Posted on November 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Charlotte Thevenet, Derrida et ses doubles – Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, November 2023 Qu’on la pourfende, la déplore ou la célèbre, l’obscurité du style de Derrida semble mettre d’accord disciples et adversaires du philosophe. Plutôt que de prendre parti, ce … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Global Histories of International Thought and Geopolitical Concepts, University of Groningen, 23-24 May 2024

Posted on November 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Call for Papers 2023: Global Histories of International Thought and Geopolitical Concepts RUG-NUPI Research Workshop in the History and Theory of International Relations Keynote speaker: Prof. Lucian Ashworth  Location: University of Groningen, 9712 CP Netherlands Date: Thursday 23th – Friday … Continue reading →

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Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iversen (eds.), Svalbard Imaginaries: The Making of an Arctic Archipelago – Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023

Posted on November 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iversen, Svalbard Imaginaries: The Making of an Arctic Archipelago – Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023 Hardback and e-book at present; paperback due in December 2024 By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book … Continue reading →

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Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023 This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre’s work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on … Continue reading →

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Robert Zaretsky, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas – University of Chicago Press, 2021, paperback 2023

Posted on November 21, 2023 by stuartelden

Robert Zaretsky, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas – University of Chicago Press, 2021, paperback 2023 Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909–43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Hubert, Meyer & Brysac, Larsson, Zumwalt

Posted on November 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Henri Hubert’s History of the Celtic Peoples (which contains two of his French books in translation); Karl Meyer and Sharon Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia; Gören Larsson (ed.), The Legacy, Life … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State – Stanford University Press, February 2024

Posted on November 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State – Stanford University Press, February 2024 Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement … Continue reading →

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Burak Kadercan, Shifting Grounds: The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict – Oxford University Press, October 2023

Posted on November 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Burak Kadercan, Shifting Grounds: The Social Origins of Territorial Conflict – Oxford University Press, October 2023 Territory has always played a key role in the origins, conduct, and consequences of armed conflict. For territories to exist in any meaningful sense, … Continue reading →

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Gianna Englert, Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage, Oxford University Press, April 2024

Posted on November 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Gianna Englert, Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage, Oxford University Press, April 2024 Does good democratic government require intelligent, moral, and productive citizens? Can our political institutions educate the kind of citizens we wish or need to … Continue reading →

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Georges Bataille correspondence – taking a look at the bound volumes at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Posted on November 16, 2023 by stuartelden

A lot of letters to and from Georges Bataille have been published (for example, here), but the two bound volumes of correspondence at the Bibliothèque nationale are still something to behold. Given how much of his library and correspondence has … Continue reading →

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