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Manon Mathias, Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine – Routledge, April 2024 Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol … Continue reading →

Luke O’Sullivan, Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, July 2024 Just an expensive hardback and e-book at the moment.

Maan Barua, Plantation Worlds – Duke University Press, August 2024 The Introduction is open access at this link In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua … Continue reading →

Paula Landerreche Cardillo and Rachel Silverbloom (eds.), Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero’s Political Thought – SUNY Press, 2024 The Editors’ Introduction is open access The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero. “Landerreche Cardillo and Silverbloom are right to … Continue reading →

Andrew Krinks, White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalisation – NYU Press, August 2024 Uncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples Most popular critical accounts of mass … Continue reading →

Shakespeare and the Reactionary Mind: Counterrevolution, Fascism, Militarism – Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 31 August 2024 Coming up soon… Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton, TW12 2EJ, United Kingdom Speakers – John Gillies, Amy Lidster, Björn Quiring, Jennifer … Continue reading →

Hannah Lucas, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being – Columbia University Press, January 2025  The medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–after 1416) is the first known woman to author a book in the English language, recognized today for … Continue reading →

now in paperback – Tamara Caraus, Militant Cosmopolitics: Another World Horizon – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024