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Dmirti Shalin, Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination – Routledge, December 2024 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on May 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Dmirti Shalin, Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination – December 2024 Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason … Continue reading →

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Anna Jurkevics, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds – Oxford University Press, April 2025

Posted on May 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Anna Jurkevics, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds – Oxford University Press, April 2025 Contested Territory presents a critical, non-sovereign theory of territorial rights capable of responding to border-defying global crises such as land dispossession, mass … Continue reading →

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Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on May 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books network discussion with Lily Goren Across Italy in … Continue reading →

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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift

Posted on May 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s literary journal TriQuarterly was a significant piece on so-called “structuralism”, and the following year’s “Michel … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Archéologie des sciences humaines: Cours São Paulo (1965) – ed. Philippe Sabot, EHESS/Seuil/Gallimard, May 2025

Posted on May 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Archéologie des sciences humaines: Cours. São Paulo (1965) – ed. Philippe Sabot, EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, May 2025 No publisher page yet, but starting to appear in online bookstores. Update July 2025: Seuil’s page is here. À l’automne 1965, Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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Vanessa Grossman, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France – Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Vanessa Grossman, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France – Yale University Press, November 2024 The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France The massive reshaping of French cities that took … Continue reading →

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Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 952 pages! A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution—Jean-Paul Marat. Who better to pen an authoritative biography … Continue reading →

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The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin, ed. Charlie Louth – SUNY Press, October 2025

Posted on May 22, 2025 by stuartelden

The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin, ed. Charlie Louth – SUNY Press, October 2025 The first English translation of Hölderlin’s complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes. Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most … Continue reading →

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Nicholas D. Anderson, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics – Cornell University Press, January 2025 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on May 21, 2025 by stuartelden

Nicholas D. Anderson, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics – Cornell University Press, January 2025 In Inadvertent Expansion, Nicholas D. Anderson investigates a surprisingly common yet overlooked phenomenon in the history of great power politics: territorial expansion that was neither intended … Continue reading →

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Books received – Adorno, Benveniste, Jakobson, Godel

Posted on May 19, 2025 by stuartelden

Three books by Adorno from Verso, and second-hand copies of Émile Benveniste’s Indo-European Language and Society, the first volume of Roman Jakobson’s Selected Writings, and Robert Godel, Les Sources Manuscrites du cours de linguistique générale de F. de Saussure.

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