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David Bather Woods, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with … Continue reading →

Sam Chian, “Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University: C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in Postwar America” – Journal of the History of Ideas blog

An interview with Achille Mbembe – thanks to David Beer for the link Achille Mbembe received the 2024 Holberg Prize for his groundbreaking research in African history and politics, and related fields. Mbembe is research professor of history and politics at … Continue reading →

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott – Hau Books, February 2025 Now published – open access here A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translated into English … Continue reading →

Anthony King, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century – Polity, 2nd edition, May 2025 War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated … Continue reading →

Richard Carter-White and Claudio Minca, A Spatial Theory of the Camp: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State – Edward Elgar, February 2025 (open access) The link for the entire book is at the bottom of the page This is an open … Continue reading →

Edwin D. Rose, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 – University of Pittsburgh Press, March 2025 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity—educated landowners, or “gentlemen,” dominated the development … Continue reading →