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Eileen Hunt Botting (ed.), Portraits of Wollstonecraft, two volumes, Bloomsbury, May 2021 A major, and very expensive, reference work on Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft’s watershed contribution to theories of women’s human rights and her international reception by both Western and non-Western … Continue reading →

Keith Tribe, Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 – OUP, December 2021. Only expensive hardback and e-book at the moment, unfortunately. During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of … Continue reading →

Cat Moir, Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics – hardback Brill 2019; paperback Haymarket, 2020 Discussion 14 December 2021, 5pm – details and registration here Update: the stream of this discussion will be here Cat Moir’s 2020 book Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: … Continue reading →

Philosophy and the Rise of Fascism: A Symposium on Lukács’s Destruction of Reason Join us for a three-day online symposium on György Lukács’s 1954 work, The Destruction of Reason, one of the most important works of philosophy in the 20th … Continue reading →

Sheila Hones, Literary Geography – Routledge, May 2022 Literary Geography provides an introduction to work in the field, making the interdiscipline accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies and human geography, as well as related fields such … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Sylvère Lotringer (1938–2021) Art Forum, November 10, 2021 Renowned French thinker Sylvère Lotringer, a lodestar in the twin galaxies of literary criticism and cultural theory, died on November 8 at the age of eighty-three following…

Theory in Crisis Seminar – Engin Isin, ‘Planetary Movements: Willing, Knowing, Acting’, 10 December 2021, 10 December 2021 , 4:00PM – 6:00PM (CEST)  What is the role of critical theory today and who is it for? What kind of maps can theory … Continue reading →

William Walters, Charles Heller & Lorenzo Pezzani (eds.), Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion – Duke University Press, January 2022 (open access introduction) Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants … Continue reading →