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Filippo Del Lucchese, Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy: From La Boétie to Hobbes – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

Posted on November 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Filippo Del Lucchese, Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy: From La Boétie to Hobbes – Edinburgh University Press, November 2025

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Salvador Santino Regilme and Obert Hodzi, United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance – Manchester University Press, January 2026

Posted on November 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Salvador Santino Regilme and Obert Hodzi, United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance – Manchester University Press, January 2026 United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy addresses the analytic weaknesses of mainstream analysis of foreign … Continue reading →

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Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda’s Genocidal Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty – Duke University Press, November 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on November 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda’s Genocidal Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty – Duke University Press, November 2025 (print and open access) The introduction is available here. In Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage, Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and … Continue reading →

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Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig eds. The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road – Bristol University Press, November 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on November 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig eds. The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road – Bristol University Press, November 2025 (print and open access) China’s Belt … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault’s 24 May 1979 paper on hermaphrodites to the Arcadie conference

Posted on November 26, 2025 by stuartelden

An earlier piece discussed the recently published Les Hermaphrodites, a manuscript by Foucault from the mid-late 1970s, at one point destined for a volume of the History of Sexuality. I also outlined the different plans Foucault discussed for the structure of the History of Sexuality series – … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation – trans. Damion Searls, Princeton University Press, April 2025

Posted on November 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation – trans. Damion Searls, Princeton University Press, April 2025 Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, … Continue reading →

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The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings, and The Essential Einstein: Public Writings – eds. Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer, Princeton University Press, Sept/Nov 2025

Posted on November 25, 2025 by stuartelden

The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings, and The Essential Einstein: Public Writings – eds. Diana Kormos Buchwald and Tilman Sauer, Princeton University Press, Sept/Nov 2025 The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein’s most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, … Continue reading →

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Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century – Oxford University Press, July 2025

Posted on November 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century – Oxford University Press, July 2025 Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century examines whether the liberalism of fear – the negative and cautionary … Continue reading →

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Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History – Verso, November 2025

Posted on November 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Donald Sassoon, Revolutions: A New History – Verso, November 2025 Revolutions is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in terms of fleeting events, such as the Fall of the Bastille or the … Continue reading →

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Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom

Posted on November 23, 2025 by stuartelden

R. Gordon Wasson was Vice President at the American investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., a major supporter of Slavic Studies in the United States during the Cold War, and fascinated by hallucinogenic mushrooms.  His wife, Valentina Pavlovna Wasson was … Continue reading →

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