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Vanessa Grossman, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France – Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Vanessa Grossman, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France – Yale University Press, November 2024 The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France The massive reshaping of French cities that took … Continue reading →

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Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 952 pages! A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution—Jean-Paul Marat. Who better to pen an authoritative biography … Continue reading →

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The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin, ed. Charlie Louth – SUNY Press, October 2025

Posted on May 22, 2025 by stuartelden

The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin, ed. Charlie Louth – SUNY Press, October 2025 The first English translation of Hölderlin’s complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most … Continue reading →

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Nicholas D. Anderson, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics – Cornell University Press, January 2025 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on May 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Nicholas D. Anderson, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics – Cornell University Press, January 2025 In Inadvertent Expansion, Nicholas D. Anderson investigates a surprisingly common yet overlooked phenomenon in the history of great power politics: territorial expansion that was neither intended … Continue reading →

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Books received – Adorno, Benveniste, Jakobson, Godel

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Three books by Adorno from Verso, and second-hand copies of Émile Benveniste’s Indo-European Language and Society, the first volume of Roman Jakobson’s Selected Writings, and Robert Godel, Les Sources Manuscrites du cours de linguistique générale de F. de Saussure.

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Books received – Robeyns, Billé, Legg, Neocleous, Daviron, Granet, Shapiro, Testa, Carrigan, Pothecary

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Books generously sent to me by publishers, authors or editors. Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarianism; Franck Billé, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity; Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities; Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police; … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Koyré in Cairo

Posted on May 18, 2025 by stuartelden

This is a revised and expanded version of a post from September 2024 Alexandre Koyré’s teaching career was predominantly in Paris and the United States. Born in Russia, he studied in Paris and Germany, before beginning teaching at the École Pratique des Hautes … Continue reading →

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Michael Hagner, Seeing Foucault’s Pendulum: Between Science, Politics, and Art, trans. Robert Savage, Zone Books, September/November 2025

Posted on May 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Hagner, Seeing Foucault’s Pendulum: Between Science, Politics, and Art, trans. Robert Savage, Zone Books, September/November 2025 In 1851, the physicist Léon Foucault performed an unforgettable experiment. By suspending a large pendulum inside the dome of Paris’ Pantheon, Foucault provided the … Continue reading →

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Alison Bashford, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on May 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Alison Bashford, Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 The astonishing story of palmistry—from occultists to the very foundations of modern science and medicine.  Why did Isaac Newton read books on … Continue reading →

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David Eltis, Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades – Cambridge University Press, February 2025

Posted on May 15, 2025 by stuartelden

David Eltis, Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades – Cambridge University Press, February 2025 In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in … Continue reading →

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