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Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Inheritance – Duke University Press, 2021 Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige—the region where family’s ancestral alpine village is found. Far … Continue reading →

Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy – Paris Institute for Critical Thinking Bookaholics #5 Converts to the Real was published by Harvard University Press in 2019. Our fifth interview is with Edward Baring, … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wild Thought – a new translation of La pensée sauvage – translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt, University of Chicago Press, December 2020 [update: now listed as February 2021] Perhaps the most influential…

Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, January 2021 In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. Harker traces the emergence … Continue reading →

Simon Brown, ‘Intellectual Journalism and Intellectual History‘, Journal of the History of Ideas blog In an interview at the Chronicle Review with the writer and teacher Maggie Doherty about academic humanities and public writing, I encountered a term for the first time that described … Continue reading →

Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy THE CELEBRATORY CLAMOR surrounding President Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation moratorium was short-lived, as a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the pause on deportation within a few days of its announcement. Even though … Continue reading →

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Etienne Balibar, Spinoza, the Transindividual, translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 One of the most important books on Spinoza to appear in the last 30 years, written by one of…

Paul Simpson, Non-Representational Theory – Routledge, January 2021 Non-representational Theory explores a range of ideas which have recently engaged geographers and have led to the development of an alternative approach to the conception, practice, and production of geographic knowledge. Non-representational Theory … Continue reading →

Henri F. Ellenberger, Ethnopsychiatry, edited by Emmanuel Delille, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021 What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the … Continue reading →

Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, and Brent J. Steele, Vicarious Identity in International Relations: Self, Security, and Status on the Global Stage – Oxford University Press, March 2021 Vicarious identification, or “living through another” is a familiar social-psychological concept. Shaped … Continue reading →