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CFP: The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle, University of Notre Dame, April 3-5, 2025

CFP: The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle, University of Notre Dame, April 3-5, 2025 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. This conference also … Continue reading →

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The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe, trans. Tiina Nunally – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025

The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe, trans. Tiina Nunally – University of Minnesota Press, August 2025 The definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture—now in paperback … Continue reading →

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Duncan Kelly, Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, November 2025

Duncan Kelly, Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics – Oxford University Press, November 2025 A major study, of a massive topic – 784 pages! The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025

Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025 This book focuses on political presuppositions animating modern historical reflection in Germany that underwent sharp radicalization in … Continue reading →

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Don Thomas Deere, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space – Duke University Press, January 2026

Don Thomas Deere, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space – Duke University Press, January 2026 Update June 2026: New Books Network discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link In The Invention of Order, Don … Continue reading →

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“An introduction to a non-fascist geography” – review of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination

My review, “An introduction to a non-fascist geography“, of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Anti-Fascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) is now published online first in Dialogues in Human Geography. If you’d like to read it and can’t access … Continue reading →

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Matthew D.C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration – University of California Press, August 2025 (print and open access) and New Books discussion

Matthew D.C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration – University of California Press, August 2025 (print and open access) New Books discussion with Michael Motia – thanks to dmf for the link This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies … Continue reading →

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Sarah E. Bond, Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – Yale University Press, February 2025

Sarah E. Bond, Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire – Yale University Press, February 2025

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Aaron Brice Cummings, Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre – Bloomsbury, September 2024

Aaron Brice Cummings, Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre – Bloomsbury, September 2024 Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, … Continue reading →

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The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek

The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Brian G. Henning and Joseph Petek One volume was published in 2022, but three more are now announced. Alfred North Whitehead was one of the 20th-century’s most … Continue reading →

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