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Daniel Wortel-London, The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 – University of Chicago Press, July 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there are also interviews at Phenomenal World and the University … Continue reading →

Rahul Rao, The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire – Pluto, March 2025 From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. The Psychic Lives of … Continue reading →

Michel Serres, Hermes III – trans. Randolph Burks, University of Minnesota Press, February 2026 Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common language Hermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel Serres’s renowned Hermes series, an ambitious … Continue reading →

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 the 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 →