Navid Pourmokhtari, Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies. (Re)Claiming World Peace, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 About this book This book argues that not only has the present international relations (IR) paradigm failed to preserve global peace in our time, it has also proved to be an obstacle in this regard, and for this reason …
Simon Lemoine, Les voies étroites de l’émancipation. Pour une philosophie du cours des choses, Paris: Les éditions Hermann 2025 Also published in Canada by Presses de l’Université Laval Cet ouvrage propose une cartographie inédite des rapports de pouvoir contemporains, ouvrant à de nouvelles voies d’émancipation. Un concept neuf est fondé, celui de cours des choses, …
Jan-Peter Herbst and Jonas Menze, Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Consumption of Instruments and Technology in Popular Music, University of Huddersfield Press, 2021 Open access “Gear Acquisition Syndrome, also known as GAS, is commonly understood as the musicians’ unrelenting urge to buy and own instruments and equipment as an anticipated catalyst of creative energy and bringer of …
Dictionnaire Roland Barthes. Sous la direction de Claude Coste, Honoré Champion, 2025. Animée par un déplacement incessant qui la conduit de l’engagement des Mythologies au structuralisme (« Analyse structurale des récits », « Éléments de sémiologie ») au post-structuralisme (S/Z), puis à l’essayisme de L’Empire des signes, des Fragments d’un discours amoureux et de La …
Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault. Tome 2: Une nouvelle représentation de la guerre : le monde comme « champ de bataille », L’Harmattan, 2025. Au sujet de la représentation des conflits comme « guerre des races », Foucault demande s’il est possible de filtrer la « violence barbare ». De la même …
Richard Groulx, Penser la guerre avec Michel Foucault. Tome 1: De la guerre des races au racisme d’État, L’Harmattan, 2025 Au fond de la politique, qu’y a-t-il sinon la guerre ? Et cette guerre, comment la définir ? Telles sont les questions posées par Michel Foucault dans son cours au Collège de France, “Il faut …
Daniel Louis Wyche, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation, Columbia University Press, 2025 Interview with the author in Columbia News, June 25, 2025 Interview with the author on the New Books Network, Jan 17, 2026 What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of …
Andreas Elpidorou, Josefa Ros Velasco, Eds. The History and Philosophy of Boredom, Routledge, 2025 Description From Lucretius’s horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination. Its story, unfolding through millennia, encompasses apathy, weariness, …
William Max Nelson, Enlightenment Biopolitics. A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens, University of Chicago Press, 2024 A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and …
Renea Frey, The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia. The Rhetoric of Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 About this book This book examines the theory, history, and practice of parrhesia—the act of speaking truth to power, when doing so is risky for the rhetor—and argues for a networked rhetorical approach to parrhesia that has not been …
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