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Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought – Princeton University Press, November 2024

Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought – Princeton University Press, November 2024 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. … Continue reading

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Reiner Schürmann, Selected Writings and Lecture Notes – Diaphenes, 2019-

Reiner Schürmann, Selected Writings and Lecture Notes – Diaphenes, 2019- I hadn’t realised this project was ongoing… five volumes already and two more in December.

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Eunsong Kim, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property – Duke University Press, August 2024 (open access introduction)

Eunsong Kim, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property – Duke University Press, August 2024 Open access introduction at the link above In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise … Continue reading

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Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland – Manchester University Press, September 2024

Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland – Manchester University Press, September 2024 This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on … Continue reading

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Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025

Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led … Continue reading

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Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024

Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024 In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores … Continue reading

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Marta Dyczok, Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine – Cambridge University Press, November 2024

Marta Dyczok, Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 pdf free online until 13 December 2024 This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine’s twenty-first-century rock … Continue reading

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Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024 No description on the EUP website, so here’s the table of contents – shame about the price. Introduction: What is a Biopolitical Animal? – Felice Cimatti and Carlo … Continue reading

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Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024

Audrey Borowski, Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant – Princeton University Press, November 2024 Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a rationalist … Continue reading

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Michael Hardt, The Subversive Seventies – Oxford University Press, September 2023 and New Books discussion

Michael Hardt, The Subversive Seventies – Oxford University Press, September 2023 Discussion with Hardt at the New Books Network with Morteza Hajizadeh. Thanks to Dave Beer for the links. A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set … Continue reading

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