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Books received – Dupuis-Déri, Drouet, Mbembe, Ginzburg, Connor, Lorenzini

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Mostly books I’ve mentioned here before – Francis Dupuis-Déri, Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull; Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance; Achille Mbembe, Brutalism; Carlo Ginzburg, Threads and Traces; … Continue reading →

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Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but now there is a New Books discussion with Nathan Smith

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Two Foucault books reissued by Routledge – History of Madness and Politics, Philosophy, Culture, October 2026

Posted on August 4, 2026 by stuartelden

History of Madness When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l’âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time … Continue reading →

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Colm McAuliffe, Film, In Theory: The BFI Education Department and Film Culture – Bloomsbury, February 2026

Posted on August 4, 2026 by stuartelden

Colm McAuliffe, Film, In Theory: The BFI Education Department and Film Culture – Bloomsbury, February 2026 Film, In Theory offers the first sustained history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain. It balances unpublished archival materials from the BFI … Continue reading →

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Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian – Harvard University Press, August 2026

Posted on August 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian – Harvard University Press, August 2026 Interview about writing the book here. [Update 21 August 2026: New Books discussion with Ryan Tripp – thanks to dmf for the … Continue reading →

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Iselin Németh Winther and Andreas Østhagen, An Introduction to Arctic Governance and Geopolitics – Elgar, 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on August 3, 2026 by stuartelden

Iselin Németh Winther and Andreas Østhagen, An Introduction to Arctic Governance and Geopolitics – Elgar, 2026 (print and open access) This timely book provides a foundational overview of the governance and geopolitics of the Arctic, an area which has moved from … Continue reading →

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Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew eds. Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline after Ron Johnston – LSE Press/RGS-IBG Book series, August 2026 (print and open access)

Posted on August 1, 2026 by stuartelden

Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew eds. Geography and a Geographer: Reimagining the Discipline after Ron Johnston – LSE Press/RGS-IBG Book series, August 2026 Professor Ron Johnston OBE, FAcSS, FBA was one of the most celebrated geographers of his … Continue reading →

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Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers eds. How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought – Routledge, July 2026

Posted on July 31, 2026 by stuartelden

Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers eds. How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought – Routledge, July 2026 This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Lenger, The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism – trans. Daniel Steuer, Polity, June 2026

Posted on July 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Friedrich Lenger, The Price of the World: A Global History of Capitalism – trans. Daniel Steuer, Polity, June 2026 Over the last 500 years, capitalism has produced a world that is highly interdependent and at the same time highly asymmetrical. … Continue reading →

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Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen or, my Life in Theory – Penguin, July 2025

Posted on July 29, 2026 by stuartelden

Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen or, my Life in Theory – Penguin, July 2025 Review in The New York Times; feature in The New Yorker (requires subscription). Thanks to dmf and Alin Constantin for the alert. Update: there is also a … Continue reading →

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