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Paulina Tambakaki, Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

Paulina Tambakaki, Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

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Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025 For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication—the novels, biographies, … Continue reading →

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Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 and JHI blog interview

Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 JHI blog interview with Alec Israeli The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created … Continue reading →

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025)

Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025) (via Foucault News) This issue of Foucault Studies is the first to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/foucault-studies/. The journal retains its full intellectual independence and keeps publishing according to a diamond open access … Continue reading →

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading →

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Sven Reichardt, “What is Post-Fascism?” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Sven Reichardt, “What is Post-Fascism?” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

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Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 and NDPR review

Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History – Oxford University Press, September 2023 I’ve shared this book before; there is now a NDPR review by Steve Naragon Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant’s account of … Continue reading →

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Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025

Alberto Toscano, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri – Brill, May 2025 This series usually appears 12 months later in paperback from Haymarket books. Update June 2026 – paperback now available From the “red years” that … Continue reading →

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Francesco Biagi (ed.), Reimaging Urban Marxism: Rethinking Thinkers, Texts, and Challenges – Routledge, June 2025

Francesco Biagi (ed.), Reimaging Urban Marxism: Rethinking Thinkers, Texts, and Challenges – Routledge, June 2025 This volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of urban Marxisms. Bringing together the main critical Marxist perspectives from around the world on contemporary urban studies, it … Continue reading →

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