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Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain” – Yale University Press, October 2025

Posted on October 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain” – Yale University Press, October 2025 The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Histoire de la vérité – Cours à l’Université d’État de New York à Buffalo, mars et avril 1972 – eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Orazio Irrera, Vrin, October 2025 Now published Comment s’est constituée, à travers le temps, la … Continue reading →

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J. Michael Cole, The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War – Polity, October 2025

Posted on October 16, 2025 by stuartelden

J. Michael Cole, The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Centre of the New Cold War – Polity, October 2025 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the … Continue reading →

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Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 (print and open access) and two interviews

Posted on October 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 – hardback and open access available now; paperback in June 2026 Uncovers the nonhuman turn’s unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France … Continue reading →

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Patricia Chiantera‐Stutte and Ulrike Jureit eds., Geo‐Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt – Routledge, November 2025

Posted on October 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Patricia Chiantera‐Stutte and Ulrike Jureit eds., Geo‐Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt – Routledge, November 2025 Sorry to report that the price is prohibitively expensive. This book focuses on the geographical and geopolitical sources for Carl Schmitt’s multilayered political … Continue reading →

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Timothy Middleton, Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma – Fordham University Press, November 2025

Posted on October 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Timothy Middleton, Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma – Fordham University Press, November 2025 A crucial intervention at the intersection of ecotheology and trauma theology  We are in the midst of a global ecological crisis. At times, … Continue reading →

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Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison – UCL Press, October 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on October 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, eds. Space, Affect, Memory: Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison – UCL Press, October 2025 Available in print and open access. Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary … Continue reading →

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Did Benveniste read Derrida’s Of Grammatology?

Posted on October 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida was certainly a careful reader of Émile Benveniste. He wrote a critique of Benveniste in “Le supplément de copule. La philosophie devant la linguistique” which appeared in 1971, in a special issue of Langages, “Épistémologie de la linguistique” edited … Continue reading →

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Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way – Profile Books, August 2025; University of Chicago Press, October 2025

Posted on October 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way – Profile Books, August 2025; University of Chicago Press, October 2025 The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical … Continue reading →

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André Laks, Plato’s Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws – Princeton University Press, paperback September 2025

Posted on October 11, 2025 by stuartelden

André Laks, Plato’s Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws – Princeton University Press, paperback September 2025 In Plato’s Second Republic, André Laks argues that the Laws, Plato’s last and longest dialogue, is also his most important political work, surpassing the Republic in historical relevance. Laks offers a … Continue reading →

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