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Pierre Bourdieu, Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal – trans. Peter Collier, Polity, June 2025

Posted on July 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Pierre Bourdieu, Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal – trans. Peter Collier, Polity, June 2025 While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, … Continue reading →

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Posted on July 20, 2025 by stuartelden

This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in … Continue reading →

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Roger D. Woodard, Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia: Identifying Asian Influences – Cambridge University Press, August 2025

Posted on July 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Roger D. Woodard, Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia: Identifying Asian Influences – Cambridge University Press, August 2025

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Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025

Posted on July 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation – Columbia University Press, May 2025 thanks to Foucault News for the link What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of … Continue reading →

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Tom Parr, Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation: Social Justice, Technology, and the Future of Work – Oxford University Press, June 2025

Posted on July 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Tom Parr, Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation: Social Justice, Technology, and the Future of Work – Oxford University Press, June 2025 Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation explores how labour market policymakers should respond to the threats and opportunities … Continue reading →

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Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault – Harmattan, two volumes, May 2025

Posted on July 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault – Harmattan, two volumes, May 2025 Tome I: De la guerre des races au racisme d’État Au fond de la politique, qu’y a-t-il sinon la guerre ? Et cette guerre, comment la … Continue reading →

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J. Allan Mitchell, Instrumentality: On Technical Objects and Orientations in the Later Middle Ages – University of Minnesota Press, October 2024

Posted on July 11, 2025 by stuartelden

J. Allan Mitchell, Instrumentality: On Technical Objects and Orientations in the Later Middle Ages – University of Minnesota Press, October 2024 From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the instrumental … Continue reading →

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Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025

Posted on July 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025 Books in this series published in paperback with Haymarket 12 months later. Marxist thought was a powerful force in French political and intellectual life … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome VI : Écrits philosophiques complémentaires, conférences publiques, lettres choisies – eds. Camille Limoges and Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Vrin, July 2025

Posted on July 10, 2025 by stuartelden
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Cristy Clark, Legal Geographies of Water: The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations – Routledge, June 2025

Posted on July 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Cristy Clark, Legal Geographies of Water: The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations – Routledge, June 2025 Discussion on Law at the End of the World podcast – thanks to dmf for the link. This book deepens our understanding … Continue reading →

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