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Andy Merrifield, “A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia”

Posted on July 3, 2024 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, “A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia“

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Peter Salmon, “Paper Trails”, on philosophers and their archives, Aeon Essays

Posted on July 2, 2024 by stuartelden

Peter Salmon, “Paper Trails“, on philosophers and their archives, Aeon Essays In part a review of the newly translated book on How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption by Philipp Felsch, it has a wider discussion … Continue reading →

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Adrian Little, Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

Posted on July 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Adrian Little, Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

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Matthijs Lok, Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past – Oxford University Press, March 2023 and New Books discussion

Posted on June 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Matthijs Lok, Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past – Oxford University Press, March 2023 Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative … Continue reading →

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Genevieve Lloyd, Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

Posted on June 29, 2024 by stuartelden

Genevieve Lloyd, Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

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Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France update 21: writing about Dumézil in the 1930s and 1940s and some archival work in Switzerland

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

In previous updates on this project, I have talked a bit about how in the chapter I’m currently writing I am trying to situate Dumézil’s books from the mid-1930s and 1940s in relation to his politics and his teaching. I’ve made some progress continuing that work. This is no small … Continue reading →

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Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel – Stanford University Press, September 2024

Posted on June 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel – Stanford University Press, September 2024 Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though the term … Continue reading →

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Neal Alexander and David Cooper (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies – Routledge, August 2024

Posted on June 26, 2024 by stuartelden

Neal Alexander and David Cooper (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies – Routledge, August 2024 The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. … Continue reading →

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Archived Key Thinkers from 2nd Edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place (open access)

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

This is a good innovation. The third edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place updates many entries from earlier editions, removes some and adds many entirely new ones. The editors have made the removed entries available online open access. … Continue reading →

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Uday Chandra, Resistance as Negotiation: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India – Stanford University Press, June 2024

Posted on June 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Uday Chandra, Resistance as Negotiation: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India – Stanford University Press, June 2024 “Tribes” appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts … Continue reading →

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