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Perry Anderson, Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War – Verso, November 2024 A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on … Continue reading →

Patricia Owens, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men – Princeton University Press, January 2025 The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent … Continue reading →

Natasha Piano, Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science – Harvard University Press, April 2025 A searing argument—and work of meticulous scholarship—about how American political scientists misinterpreted the elite theory of democracy and in so doing made our … Continue reading →

Stephen D’Arcy, Frege and Fascism – Routledge, December 2024 This book is the first to examine in minutiae the politics of Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), and his connections with various traditions of far-right and fascist thought. Frege was a philosopher of … Continue reading →

I am pleased to say that the recordings for the British Academy conference “Futures of Critique in a Pluricentric World” (July 12-13, 2024) are now available on the YouTube channel of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths:

Foucault News update: Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation (2024) The Bibliography of Foucault’s shorter works in English translation which is maintained by Daniele Lorenzini and hosted on this site [Foucault News] has been updated. As always if you notice anything … Continue reading →

Florian Illies, The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time, trans. Tony Crawford, Polity, November 2024 No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments … Continue reading →

Daniel Wortel-London, The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 – University of Chicago Press, July 2025 Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, … Continue reading →

Michael Behrent has written a review essay about my Foucault books for Modern Intellectual History. Coincidentally – I didn’t know he was writing this piece – I have a review of his Becoming Foucault forthcoming in Journal of Modern History.