Bernd Herzogenrath and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo eds. CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance – Open Humanities Press, 2026 (open access)

Bernd Herzogenrath and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo eds. CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance – Open Humanities Press, 2026 Available open access – thanks to dmf for the link CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance is a collective intervention into the politics of language … Continue reading →

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The Experience of the Demonic and Its Waning: Foucault, Madness and Witchcraft

Throughout his career Foucault made many promises of books he planned to write, only some of which were fulfilled. In History of Madness in 1961 he said: We will show in another study how the experience of the demonic and its waning … Continue reading →

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David E. Barclay, Cold War City: A History of West Berlin – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026

David E. Barclay, Cold War City: A History of West Berlin – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026 Located more than one hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain, West Berlin served as a stage on which the confrontation between nuclear-armed superpowers … Continue reading →

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Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly – “Reflections on Writing” Series (open access)

Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly has a “Reflections on Writing” Series – all pieces are open access The Editors of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly are excited to announce the launch of a new opinion-style series of pieces: ‘Reflections on Writing’ (2025 NILQ … Continue reading →

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Sören Urbansky and Martin Wagner, Entangled Empires: Four Centuries of China-Russia Relations – Polity, June 2026

Sören Urbansky and Martin Wagner, Entangled Empires: Four Centuries of China-Russia Relations – Polity, June 2026 As expansionist empires, socialist superpowers and authoritarian regimes, China and Russia have much in common. While many in the West fear the formation of … Continue reading →

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Maurizio Meloni, Coloniality and Structural Othering in European Thought: A Racialized Canon – Routledge, June 2026

Maurizio Meloni, Coloniality and Structural Othering in European Thought: A Racialized Canon – Routledge, June 2026 Thanks to Foucault News for the link. This book provides a historical and conceptual analysis of patterns of racialized otherness in European thought, traversing … Continue reading →

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Marita Rainsborough, Foucault Today: New Perspectives in Philosophy and Cultural Studies – Transcript, May 2025

Marita Rainsborough, Foucault Today: New Perspectives in Philosophy and Cultural Studies – Transcript, May 2025 Michel Foucault is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Marita Rainsborough examines the current relevance of his work with reference … Continue reading →

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Natasha Lennard, On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times – Verso, October 2026

Natasha Lennard, On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times – Verso, October 2026 We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act? While politicians, CEOs, and pundits reflexively invoke “uncertain times” to … Continue reading →

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David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse – Denoël, September 2026

David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse – Denoël, September 2026 À l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Michel Foucault, première enquête sur la jeunesse de l’un des penseurs les plus influents du monde contemporain. Raconter les années … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Iran, quand la terre tremble: Reportage 1978-1979 – eds. Fabienne Brion, Julien Cavagnis, Sajjad Lohi and Chowra Makarem – Gallimard, September 2026

I previously shared news of three Foucault books being published by Gallimard to coincide with his 100th birthday, one of which was Iran, quand la terre tremble: Reportage 1978-1979. Further details of this are now on the Gallimard site. It is … Continue reading →

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Puzzles, Patience and Clues: Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi

In an interview with Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke in October 1998, published in The New History: Confessions and Conversations, Carlo Ginzburg mentions the critical attitude he has to some of his earlier works. One was his 1970 book Il nicodemismo: Simulazione e dissimulazione … Continue reading →

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David Reisman, Economy and Utopia: More to Morris – Edward Elgar, April 2026

David Reisman, Economy and Utopia: More to Morris – Edward Elgar, April 2026 Introduction open access here In this insightful book, David Reisman examines the various notions of a utopia that emerged in opposition to feudalism and capitalism between the … Continue reading →

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Sarah Ellen Zarrow, Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891-1941 – Cornell University Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Sarah Ellen Zarrow, Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891-1941 – Cornell University Press, June 2025 New Books Network discussion with Paul Lerner Displays of Belonging illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists, who sought … Continue reading →

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The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics – eds. Doyle C. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall and Sheikh Thiam, Duke University Press, April 2026 and interview with the editors

The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics – eds. Doyle C. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall and Sheikh Thiam, Duke University Press, April 2026 Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Leopold Sédar Senghor, together with Aimé Césaire and others, developed the … Continue reading →

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Mary Pickering, Prophet of Science: The Vision and Passion of Auguste Comte – Reaktion, October 2026

Mary Pickering, Prophet of Science: The Vision and Passion of Auguste Comte – Reaktion, October 2026 A fascinating portrait of Auguste Comte, nineteenth-century mathematician and philosopher Born during the ferment of the French Revolution, Auguste Comte was one of the … Continue reading →

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Irene I. Vega, Bordering On Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality – Princeton University Press, May 2025 and New Books discussion

Irene I. Vega, Bordering On Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality – Princeton University Press, May 2025 New Books discussion with Christina Gessler – thanks to dmf for the link Immigration agents have a frontline view of the racial, … Continue reading →

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A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West -Verso, April 2026 and New Books discussion

A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West –Verso, April 2026 I’ve shared news of the book before, there is now a New Books network discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh … Continue reading →

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Geoffrey M. Hodgson, From Marx to Markets: An Intellectual Odyssey – Edward Elgar, 2026

Geoffrey M. Hodgson, From Marx to Markets: An Intellectual Odyssey – Edward Elgar, 2026 In this revealing and eminently readable book, Geoffrey M. Hodgson takes readers on an intellectual odyssey through his distinguished career and his work as one of the leading institutional and evolutionary economists. Depicting his life throughout the Cold War, grappling with … … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Frans Hals, The Regents and the illustration of his History of Madness

Michel Foucault’s discussion on Dutch television with Noam Chomsky, moderated by Fons Elders, is of course well known. The interview was part of a series, also including dialogues between A.J. Ayer and Arne Naess, Karl Popper and John Eccles, and Leszek … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Fentress and Adam Rabinowitz, Slaving States: From West Africa to the Ancient Mediterranean – Princeton University Press, August/October 2026

Elizabeth Fentress and Adam Rabinowitz, Slaving States: From West Africa to the Ancient Mediterranean – Princeton University Press, August/October 2026 The growing economies of ancient Greece and Rome created an ever-increasing demand for enslaved labor, which was supplied by states … Continue reading →

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Books received – Ginzburg, Bachelard, Shatz, de Beauvoir, Pallares-Burke, De Genova & Morales, Stob

Carlo Ginzburg, Dialogue avec Marc Bloch (a collection of his texts from various places); the critical edition of Gaston Bachelard, La rationalism appliqué, Adam Shatz, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon; Simone de Beauvoir, Une fois que … Continue reading →

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Richard Fallon, Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology – Oxford University Press, April 2025

Richard Fallon, Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology – Oxford University Press, April 2025 By the mid-nineteenth century, geologists and palaeontologists had reconstructed an authoritative narrative of Earth’s … Continue reading →

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Samuel Mace, Carl Schmitt in the Middle East: Unstable Decisionism and the Failure of Political Orders – Palgrave Macmillan, August 2026

Samuel Mace, Carl Schmitt in the Middle East: Unstable Decisionism and the Failure of Political Orders – Palgrave Macmillan, August 2026 This book presents a critical examination of Carl Schmitt’s political framework, particularly in the context of decisionist regimes in … Continue reading →

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Michael R. Griffiths, The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 and New Books discussion

Michael R. Griffiths, The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 New Books discussion with Maths Frickhoeffer – thanks to dmf for the link The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought promises to transform a decades … Continue reading →

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The Foucault Century – Symposium 24-25 September 2026

Speakers Sabeen AhmedAmy AllenVerena Erlenbusch-AndersonNiki Kasumi ClementsPenelope DeutscherDavid HalperinAmy HollywoodLynne HufferDaniele LorenziniDonovan Schaefer Register for each day separately Register: Sept 24 Register: Sept 25

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Jennifer C. James, Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery – Duke University Press, August 2026

Jennifer C. James, Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery – Duke University Press, August 2026 Introduction open access at the above link Captive Ecologies makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery’s afterlife, tracing the complex entanglements between racial … Continue reading →

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Ian Hunter, The Kantian Religion – Princeton University Press

Ian Hunter, The Kantian Religion – Princeton University Press, April/June 2026 Interview at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog with Rex Butler Thanks to Foucault News and dmf for the links Kantian philosophy is typically viewed as providing … Continue reading →

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Helen Deutsch, The Last Amateur: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature – University of Chicago Press, June 2026

Helen Deutsch, The Last Amateur: Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature – University of Chicago Press, June 2026 Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Said, The Last Amateur argues for the transformative … Continue reading →

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Simone de Beauvoir, Une fois que les femmes ont ouvert les yeux: Écrits et paroles féministes (1947-1985) – Gallimard, April 2026

Simone de Beauvoir, Une fois que les femmes ont ouvert les yeux: Écrits et paroles féministes (1947-1985) – Gallimard, April 2026 Publier aujourd’hui les Écrits et paroles féministes (1947-1985), c’est rappeler que Le Deuxième Sexe n’a été qu’un commencement. Pendant près de quarante … Continue reading →

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