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Sarah Punathil ed. Lines and Passages: Reimagining Migration and Borderlands in South Asia, Routledge, March 2026

Posted on February 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Sarah Punathil ed. Lines and Passages: Reimagining Migration and Borderlands in South Asia, Routledge, March 2026 Moving beyond the conventional binary logic of state and society, this book reveals how borderlands emerge as both contested and negotiated terrains shaped by historical … Continue reading →

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Umberto Eco, Philosophers, Mythologists and Linguists

Posted on February 15, 2026 by stuartelden

19 February 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Umberto Eco. I only heard Eco speak once, at a book reading in October 1995 for The Island of the Day Before. Mario Vargas Llosa was the other scheduled speaker, but … Continue reading →

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Duncan Bell and Douglas Mao, Utopia – Oxford University Press, March 2026

Posted on February 13, 2026 by stuartelden

Duncan Bell and Douglas Mao, Utopia – Oxford University Press, March 2026 Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 31 – Paris archives, library problems, and working towards a complete draft

Posted on February 12, 2026 by stuartelden

The draft of the Mapping Indo-European Thought manuscript is slowly coming together. I’ve just begun a Fernand Braudel fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. My plan was to come here with a complete draft, and to leave with a better … Continue reading →

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Andrea Bardin, Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science – Edinburgh University Press, January 2026

Posted on February 12, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrea Bardin, Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science – Edinburgh University Press, January 2026

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Mark Leonard, Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail – Polity, April 2026

Posted on February 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Mark Leonard, Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail – Polity, April 2026 We live in an explosive world. Trump is blowing up political order. Xi Jinping is scrambling the economy. And Putin is redrawing the map of Europe. At … Continue reading →

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The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus

Posted on February 10, 2026 by stuartelden

The Normativity of Marx’s Aristotelian-Hegelianism: An Interview with Michael Lazarus – JHI blog Michael Lazarus is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale … Continue reading →

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The differences between the article and book versions of Jacques Derrida’s “Cogito and the History of Madness”

Posted on February 9, 2026 by stuartelden

There are lots of small changes made by Jacques Derrida to his critique of Foucault between the 1963 article “Cogito et histoire de la folie” and its republication in the 1967 book L’écriture et la différence, translated by Alan Bass as Writing and Difference. As … Continue reading →

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Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction – Oxford University Press, November 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Patricia Daley and Ian Klinke, Human Geography: A Very Short Introduction – Oxford University Press, November 2025 I’ve shared the book details before. There is now a New Books discussion with Caleb Zakarin – thanks to dmf for the link. … Continue reading →

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Brahim El Guabli, Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences – University of California Press, November 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on February 6, 2026 by stuartelden

Brahim El Guabli, Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences – University of California Press, November 2025 New Books discussion with Ibrahim Fawzy – thanks to dmf for the links Desert Imaginations traces the cultural and intellectual histories that … Continue reading →

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