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Henk de Berg and Cat Moir (eds.), Rethinking Ernst Bloch – Haymarket, October 2024 Rethinking Ernst Bloch offers a critical reassessment of the thought of Ernst Bloch, best-known for his groundbreaking study The Principle of Hope and one of the most significant European thinkers and … Continue reading →

British Library update – more of the collection available, remote ordering possible, with more detail here. My anecdotal experience recently, in the two rooms I’ve used most over the past few years (Rare Books and Asian and African Studies) is … Continue reading →

Wim Carton and Andreas Malm, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown – Verso, October 2024 A devastating critique of the forces propelling us beyond critical temperature limits, by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline The … Continue reading →

Sharad Chari, Apartheid Remains – Duke University Press, May 2024 The introduction is open access here New Books discussion with Geoffrey Gordon – thanks to dmf for this link In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of … Continue reading →

Disalienation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Camille Robcis – Journal of the History of Ideas blog (audio)

Arthur Bradley, Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy – Columbia University Press, November 2024 To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, … Continue reading →

Federico Gallo, Diplomatics: the science of reading medieval documents A Handbook – Milano University Press, 2024 (open access) The book is in English, but I can only find this abstract: La Diplomatica è la scienza che studia i documenti, in … Continue reading →

Quinn Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right – Zone, April 2025 Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors … Continue reading →

Andrew Hui, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries – Princeton University Press, December 2024 With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells … Continue reading →