Clive Barnett reflects on his new book – not just in terms of its content, but also the experience of seeing the physical object after working on the text for so long.
It’s a funny experience, publishing a book – something that one has lived and worked with for perhaps years and invested all sorts of energies into finally comes out, and there is an odd sense of anti-climax (it’s a lot like finishing a PhD). But it’s also odd to actually read one’s own book in proper book form, bound and beautiful, even though The Priority of Injustice is pretty much the only thing I have been reading since at least the summer of 2015. There is a kind of terror involved (what does it read like?), but also a nice experience of affirmation, as you notice that there is maybe something coherent running through the whole thing (although maybe you have to have been reading, writing and editing it for more than two years to actually notice this). So, I have now read my own book, again, cover to cover…
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I’ve made some minor updates to my guide 
On 27 October 2017 I had the pleasure of speaking at 
Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch (eds), 
