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Hugo Canihac, Legal and Political Thinking against Sovereignty: A European Intellectual History – Routledge, September 2025

Posted on June 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Hugo Canihac, Legal and Political Thinking against Sovereignty: A European Intellectual History – Routledge, September 2025 At the intersection of the history of constitutional ideas and of political theory, this book offers a new genealogy of the constitutional thought of … Continue reading →

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Lucy Benjamin, Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on June 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Lucy Benjamin, Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025 (print and open access) Explores the connection between ecological crisis and Arendtian politics of the earth Rereads Hannah Arendt’s writings, with a view to … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on June 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading →

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Pierre Nora (1931-2025)

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault News has some of the pieces about the death of Pierre Nora, important editor and historian, and one of the last of his generation.

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Louis Althusser’s 1967-68 course on ‘philosophy for scientists’ – the resulting publications and the archive of its lectures

Posted on June 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Louis Althusser’s seminars at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) are of course best known for the famous Reading Capital volume, which developed from his 1964-65 seminar. He ran seminars on the young Marx in 1961-62 and Lacan and psychoanalysis in 1963-64. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Mats Andrén, Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea since 1800 – Berghahn, November 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on June 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Mats Andrén, Thinking Europe: A History of the European Idea since 1800 – Berghahn, November 2024 (print and open access) Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in … Continue reading →

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Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf: Moments of Becoming – Bloomsbury, May 2025 

Posted on June 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf: Moments of Becoming – Bloomsbury, May 2025  Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her “philosophy”-the “constant idea” that “makes her a writer.” She wrote that this idea had given her … Continue reading →

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Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, eds. Laura Vaughan, John Peponis and Ruth Dalton – UCL Press, April 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on June 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, eds. Laura Vaughan, John Peponis and Ruth Dalton – UCL Press, April 2025 (print and open access) Professor Bill Hillier spent most of his career at The Bartlett, University College London, where he founded … Continue reading →

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Roman Jakobson, Franz Boas, and the Paleo-Siberian and Aleutian material at the New York Public Library

Posted on June 1, 2025 by stuartelden

The support for refugee scholars to come to the United States of America in the 1930s and 1940s is well known. Varian Fry famously helped several hundred European artists and intellectuals to flee Vichy France between 1940 and 1941. The … Continue reading →

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Kasia Szymanska, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy – Princeton University Press, May 2025 and interview at Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on May 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Kasia Szymanska, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy – Princeton University Press, May 2025 In Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next to … Continue reading →

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