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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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Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa – Cambridge University Press, July 2025

Posted on July 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Gillian Mathys, Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa – Cambridge University Press, July 2025

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Sophie E. Battell, On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 and open access

Posted on July 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Sophie E. Battell, On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 and open access

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Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Sadi Shanaah, The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society, and Countering Radicalization – Oxford University Press, June 2025

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Sadi Shanaah, The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society, and Countering Radicalization – Oxford University Press, June 2025 The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism explores how counter-radicalization policies have come to dominate European counterterrorism and security. … Continue reading →

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Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025

Posted on July 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025 This book concerns the elemental geographies and lives and deaths of the drowned to confront enduring forms of oppression. Elaine Stratford documents with penetrating compassion and acumen how human … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025

Posted on July 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025 How today’s dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty. The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has … Continue reading →

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“For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science”, Luca Sciortino, The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025 (open access)

Posted on July 4, 2025 by stuartelden

“For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science“, Luca Sciortino, The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025 On 21 November 2024, in Rome, the historian … Continue reading →

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