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Simon Glendinning, Europe: A Philosophical History – 2 volumes, Routledge, July 2021 Part 1: The Promise of Modernity and Part 2: Beyond Modernity Europe is inseparable from its history. That history has been extensively studied in terms of its political … Continue reading →

Territory, State and Nation: The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén, edited by Ragnar Björk and Thomas Lundén – Berghahn, August 2021 Looks interesting, but a shame about the prohibitive price. Rudolf Kjellén, regularly referred to as “the father of geopolitics,” developed … Continue reading →

Martin Paul Eve, It’s Time we Dropped Agamben (personal blog) Benjamin Bratton, Agamben WTF, or How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic (Verso blog)

Barney Warf, Geographies of Cosmopolitanism – Edward Elgar, July 2021 Invigorating and timely, this book provides a thorough overview of the geographies of cosmopolitanism, an ethical and political philosophy that views humanity as one community. Barney Warf charts the origins … Continue reading →

Jerry Z. Muller, Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes – Princeton University Press, April 2022 Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar … Continue reading →

Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, July 2021 Over the last two decades, warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of our time have taken place in densely populated … Continue reading →

Conference: Foucault’s confessions videos (2021) – the videos from the series organised by Niki Kasumi Clements, all available on YouTube thanks to Foucault Studies for the link