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  • Common Sense: Between Democratic Promise and Political Peril

    Thomas Telios considers common sense as a contested and performative concept shaping democratic discourse and political exclusion.

    March 2, 2026
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Decolonizing the human: Beginning from Edward Said’s humanism

Benjamin P. Davis explores the influence of Edward Said on his novel reading of humanity in decolonial theory.

  • Edinburgh University Press
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Arriving with Deleuze

Peter Pál Pelbart reflects on his journey towards the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, which began 40 years ago with a copy of Anti-Oedipus.

  • Edinburgh University Press
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Charities and Politics in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria: Q&A with Laura Ruiz de Elvira

Laura Ruiz de Elvira explores the role of charities in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria and, by extension, the eventual downfall of the regime.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 23, 2025
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A decade in the making: Completing the Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity

Kenneth Ross and Todd Johnson reflect on the process of conceptualising and editing the Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 22, 2025
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A Deleuzian Conversion

Claire Colebrook was dragged to Deleuze kicking and screaming, but she came to appreciate his difficult and disruptive work. Discover how.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • April 17, 2025
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The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa

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Towards a Promethean European Cosmo-politeia

Michail Theodosiadis explores what the European Union can learn from the transcendent values of the Byzantine Empire.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • March 28, 2025
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A Life Becoming Deleuzian

Eugene W. Holland explores how he became (and continues to become) Deleuzian, from graduate school through to his most recent publications.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • March 18, 2025
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Thirty Years of Studies in World Christianity

Alexander Chow, co-editor of Studies in World Christianity, celebrates the journal's 30th anniversary by looking to its history and future.

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • March 11, 2025
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