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Melayna Kay Lamb, A Philosophical History of Police Power – Bloomsbury, February 2024, paperback September 2025 Rethinking the philosophical grounds of police power, Melayna Lamb argues that traditional ideas of sovereignty and the law need to be radically re-evaluated. In placing police … Continue reading →

Paula Diehl and Michael Saward, Bodies, Spaces, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation – Oxford University Press, February 2025 There is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, and even celebrities appear in public, they make … Continue reading →

Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The life of a Radical Historian – Verso, February 2025 Update December 2025: New Books discussion with Lucas Tse A luminous biography of one of the 20th century’s most influential historians Christopher Hill was one of … Continue reading →

Christopher Burke and Adam Tamas Tuboly, Otto Neurath in Britain – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 Otto Neurath (1882–1945) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist and political economist, and one of the most multi-faceted and creative thinkers in the … Continue reading →

Tom Arnold-Forster, Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography – Princeton University Press, June 2025 Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he shaped ideas about liberalism … Continue reading →

Jakob Norberg, Schopenhauer’s Politics – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) lived through an era of great political turmoil, but previous assessments of his political thought have portrayed him as a pessimistic observer with no constructive solutions to … Continue reading →

Brandon Bloch, Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy – Harvard University Press, May 2025 A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for … Continue reading →

Sander Verhaegh (ed.), American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration: Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory – De Gruyter, 2025 (open access) How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of American philosophy? … Continue reading →

Alyssa Battistoni, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature – Princeton University Press, August 2025 Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, … Continue reading →

Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Childhood, Pain and Emotion: A Modern British Medical History – Cambridge University Press, April 2025  Situated between the history of pain, history of childhood and history of emotions, this innovative work explores cultural understandings of children’s pain, from … Continue reading →