Book Reviews
Prepublication reviews from Thesis Eleven Journal. You can find the final published versions here
Book Review: The Summer of Theory
Philipp Felsch, The Summer of Theory (Polity, 2022) Reviewed by Peter Beilharz (Sichuan University)
Book Review: The sociological Interpretation of Dreams
Bernard Lahire (trans. Helen Morrison), The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams (Wiley, 2020) Reviewed by John Lechte (Macquarie University)
Review Essay: Singular sociology? On the work of the German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz
Reviewed by Christine Magerski (University of Zagreb)
Book Review: Between Gaia and Ground
E. A. Povinelli, Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2021) Reviewed by Angie Sassano (Deakin University)
Book Review: On fascism: 12 lessons from American history
Matthew C. MacWilliams, On fascism: 12 lessons from American history (St Martin’s Publishing Group, 2020) Reviewed by Zak Kizer (Iowa Lakes Community College)
Book Review: The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanisation of Rural China
Nick R. Smith, The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanisation of Rural China (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) Reviewed by Brooke Wilmsen (La Trobe University)
Book Review: Enrichment – A Critique of Commodities
Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre, Enrichment – A Critique of Commodities (Polity, 2020) Reviewed by Peter Beilharz (Sichuan University)
Book Review: Beilharz with Bauman, After Bauman
Peter Beilharz, Intimacy in Postmodern Times: A Friendship with Zygmunt Bauman (Manchester University Press, 2020) Reviewed by Christopher G. Robbins
Book review: Crowdfunding and the Democratization of Finance
Mark Davis and Bruce Davis, Crowdfunding and the Democratization of Finance (Bristol University Press, 2022) Reviewed by Bill Maurer
Book Review: The Ends of Science
Harry Redner, The Ends of Science: An Essay in Scientific Authority (Westview Press, 1987) Reviewed by Gernot Böhme (translated by Joachim Redner)
Book Review: Quintessence of Dust
Harry Redner, Quintessence of Dust: The Science of Matter and the Philosophy of Mind (Brill, 2020) Reviewed by Miguel Candel Sanmartin
Book Review: The Human
John Lechte, The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life (Bloomsbury, 2020) Reviewed by Claire Colebrook
Book Review: Declarations of Dependence
Scott Ferguson, Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care (University of Nebraskra Press, 2018) Reviewed by Jonathan Ben-Menachem, Columbia
Book Review: These Barbed Wire Barriers
Jenifer Nicholson, These Barbed Wire Barriers: Antonio Gramsci and the Schucht Sisters (BSA Auto/Biography Study Group, 2020) Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: Critical Theories and the Budapest School
Jonathan Pickle and John Rundell (eds.), Critical Theories and the Budapest School: Politics, Culture, and Modernity (Routledge, 2018) Reviewed by J.F. Dorahy
Book Review: At the Risk of Thinking
Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) Reviewed by John Lechte, Macquarie University, Australia
Book Review: The End of Illusions
Andreas Reckwitz, The Society of Singularities (Polity 2020) The End of Illusions (Polity 2021) Reviewed by Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University
Book Review: Culture and Art
Zygmunt Bauman, Culture and Art: Selected Writings Vol.1 (Polity, 2020) Reviewed by Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University
Book Review: Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory: Hope, Humanism, and the Future
Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory: Hope, Humanism, and the Future (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) Reviewed by Matheus Capovilla Romanetto
Book Review: The Political Economy of Inequality
Frank Stilwell, The Political Economy of Inequality (Polity Press, 2019) Reviewed by Henry Paternoster
Book Review: Again, Dangerous Visions
Andrew Milner, Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism (Haymarket, 2019) Reviewed by Gary Pearce, RMIT University
Book Review: The Jewish Question
Enzo Traverso, The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate (Brill, 2019) Reviewed by Chamsy el-Ojeili
Book Review: The Distortion of Nature’s Image
Damian Gerber, The Distortion of Nature’s Image: Reification and the Ecological Crisis (SUNY, 2019) Reviewed by Francisco Gelves-Gomez
Book Review: Revolution Today, The New Authoritarians, Into the Tempest
Chamsy el-Ojeili reviews: Susan Buck-Morss, Revolution Today (Haymarket Books, 2019) David Renton The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right (Haymarket Books, 2019); William I. Robinson Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2018)
Book Review: Reimagining Nations and Rethinking Futures
Divya Anand Reimagining Nations and Rethinking Futures: Contemporary Eco-Political Controversies in India and Australia (Primus Books, 2019) Reviewed by Haris Qadeer
Book Review: Debt and Guilt: A Political Philosophy
Elettra Stimilli, Debt and Guilt: A Political Philosophy, Stefania Porcelli (trans.) (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) Reviewed by Scott Robinson
Book Review: Two For the Road
Zygmunt Bauman, Making the Familiar Unfamiliar – A Conversation with Peter Haffner (Polity, 2020) Hartmut Rosa, The Uncontrollability of the World (Polity, 2020) Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: The Crisis Paradigm
Andrew Simon Gilbert The Crisis Paradigm: Description and Prescription in Social and Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Reviewed by J.F. Dorahy
Book Review: Foucault’s last Decade and Foucault and the Politics of Rights
Stuart Elden Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity, 2016) Ben Golder Foucault and the Politics of Rights (Stanford University Press, 2015) Reviewed by Mitchell Dean
Book Review: The Distance
Ivan Vladislavić The Distance (Umuzi/Penguin Random House, 2019) Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: Downtown Revitalisation and Delta Blues in Clarksdale Mississippi
John Henshall Downtown Revitalisation and Delta Blues in Clarksdale Mississippi: Lessons for Small Cities and Towns (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Reviewed by Melissa Kennedy
Book Review: Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis: Eurasian Explorations
Johann P Arnason and Chris Hann (eds) Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis: Eurasian Explorations, SUNY Press (2018) Reviewed by Jeremy Smith
Book Review: Antonio Gramsci – Towards an Intellectual Biography
Alastair Davidson Antonio Gramsci – Towards an Intellectual Biography (Brill, Historical Materialism, 2017) Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship
Rachel Busbridge Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship (Routledge, 2017) Reviewed by Nicolas Pirsoul
Book Review: Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right
Walden Bello Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (Practical Action Publishing, 2019) Reviewed by Erwin Rafael
Book review: National Populism (2018) and The New Populism (2019)
Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy (Pelican Books, 2018); Marco Revelli The New Populism: Democracy Stares Into the Abyss (Verso, 2019) Reviewed by: Chamsy el-Ojeili, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Book Review: Social Theory Now
Book Review: Social Theory Now – Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause and Isaac Ariail Reed (eds.) (The University of Chicago Press, 2017). Reviewed by: Rachel Busbridge
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