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Christine Sypnowich, G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality – Polity, July 2024

Christine Sypnowich, G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality – Polity, July 2024 Part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture & Society special issue ‘Thinking with Latour’ – three papers open access

Theory, Culture & Society special issue ‘Thinking with Latour‘ – three papers open access. Update: Thanks to dmf and others for the link to Steven Shapin’s piece at Journal of the History of Ideas blog

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On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII, trans. Bruce Fink – Polity, October 2024

On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII, trans. Bruce Fink – Polity, October 2024 The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and women—their most concrete, amorous, and … Continue reading →

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Kevin Curran, Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment: Six Keywords – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024 (print and open access)

Kevin Curran, Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment: Six Keywords – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024 Available open access at the above link Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy series.

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Virginia Mantouvalou and Jonathan Wolff (eds.), Structural Injustice and the Law – UCL Press, October 2024 (open access)

Virginia Mantouvalou and Jonathan Wolff (eds.), Structural Injustice and the Law – UCL Press, open access, October 2024 In developing her conception of structural injustice, Iris Marion Young made a strict distinction between large-scale collective injustice that results from the … Continue reading →

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Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, 2024 (open access)

Michael Hughes, Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life – Open Book, now published and available open access as pdf Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant figure in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lived through pivotal … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Koyré, Delaporte, Felsch, Febvre, Meillet

Some second-hand books by dead French men bought recently, and Philipp Felsch’s How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold, translated by Daniel Bowles. The second and third books are translations by Alexandre Koyré, and the top book is a copy … Continue reading →

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Resistance & Pleasure in Foucault: Recovering a lost connection – University of Warwick, 25 October 2024

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Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Afterword by Martin Jay, edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott, Verso Books, September 2024 and review in Historical Materialism

Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Afterword by Martin Jay, edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott, Verso Books, July 2024 I shared news of this book earlier this year, but it is now published and there is … Continue reading →

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Jo van Every – How do I know when my book is ready to submit?

Jo van Every – How do I know when my book is ready to submit? Some good advice here – and not just for new authors. There are a lot of other Writing and Publishing posts and links on this site … Continue reading →

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