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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault Studies. Number 33, December 2022 Editorial Sverre Raffnsøe et al Articles The Use and Misuse of Pleasure: Hadot contra Foucault on the Stoic Dichotomy Gaudium-Voluptas in Seneca Matteo Johannes Stettler The Subject of Desire…

Brett Christophers, Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World – Verso, April 2023 All hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a … Continue reading →

The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science, edited by Bojana Mladenovic – University of Chicago Press, November 2022 A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.  This … Continue reading →

Anne-Marie Lewis – Celestial Inclinations – A Life of Augustus, Oxford University Press – May 2023 Only a really expensive hardback listed, but this looks to be a major study.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, War and Peace: On the Principle and Constitution of the Rights of Peoples, translated by Paul Sharkey, edited and introduced by Alex Prichard – AK Press, August 2022

Marilyn Strathern, Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things, new ed. HAU, 2023 (paperback January 2023 and open access pdf now)

Clare Pettitt, Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 – Oxford University Press, June 2020 I’m late to noticing this book, which looks interesting: Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the … Continue reading →

Christopher Watkin and Oliver Davis (eds) New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy – Routledge, December 2022 Hardback and e-book, with two chapters open access What does ‘autonomy’ mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant for contemporary … Continue reading →