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Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, African Philosophies – trans. Matthew B. Smith, Polity, June 2025 For many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of medieval and early modern Europe … Continue reading →

Tim Cresswell, The Citizen and a Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility – University of Minnesota Press, March 2026 An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movement The Citizen and the Vagabond develops a theoretical approach to the study … Continue reading →

Thomas Crow, Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution – Princeton University Press, November 2025 thanks to John Raimo for the link Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat depicts the painter’s friend and fellow revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat collapsed … Continue reading →

Raymond Geuss, Seeing Double – Polity, April 2024 NDPR review by Espen Hammer The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, … Continue reading →

Robert St. Clair, Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Constellations of Loss in Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert – Oxford University Press, July 2025 Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of … Continue reading →

Faye Donnelly and Tilman Schwarze eds. Security and Space: In Pursuit of Interconnections – Bristol University Press, May 2026 This book brings fresh insights into how social spaces shape the way we experience and understand security. Chapters unite voices from … Continue reading →