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Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation – trans. Damion Searls, Princeton University Press, April 2025 Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, … Continue reading →

The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings, and The Essential Einstein: Public Writings – eds. Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer, Princeton University Press, Sept/Nov 2025 The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein’s most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, … Continue reading →

Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century – Oxford University Press, July 2025 Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century examines whether the liberalism of fear – the negative and cautionary … Continue reading →

Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History – Verso, November 2025 Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the … Continue reading →

François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle – La Découverte/Delcourt 2025 Thanks to Foucault News for the link. On connaissait la French Pop , mais connaissez-vous la French Theory ? Comment Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida… sont devenus des stars aux … Continue reading →

Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025 ‘A compelling critique of bourgeois society and women’s oppression – a critique that not only advances theory, but also engages deeply with the … Continue reading →

States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography – summary at the RGS-IBG website, with links to the report, plans, posters etc. Precarious working conditions are increasingly common throughout academia – from the proliferation of fixed term contracts (FTCs) to … Continue reading →

Maia Kotrosits, After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity – Duke University Press, November 2025 Introduction open access at this link In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in … Continue reading →