ELEN RIOT - Young Artists, Innovation and the Organization, Volume II 2026

Young Artists, Innovation and the Organization, Volume II' explores entrepreneurship in the arts industries, its impact on working lives and society, and analyses interviews conducted by the author with artists in diverse fields on creative careers and entrepreneurship. Link in the comments.

Laurent Glattli - Preserving the Past, Building the Nation: A History of Heritage Conservation Policies in Postcolonial India (1944–1972) - 2026

How did India’s 3,695 ‘monuments of national importance’ come under state protection? Who authored their historical noticeboards? For whom—and against whom—was heritage preserved? To what extent did conservation serve the project of nation-building? Preserving the Past, Building the Nation offers the first comprehensive history of heritage conservation policy in post-independence India, focusing on the role of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). It is the story of an ambitious generation of archaeologists trained in the waning hour of colonial rule, who set out to preserve the cultural heritage of a newly sovereign nation. The book details how a small number of experts shaped conservation as a scientific endeavour, sidelining its political and symbolic dimensions. State protection was enforced in a top-down manner, often in tension with local communities and religious practices. Chronic financial and bureaucratic constraints hindered forward-thinking reforms, perpetuating colonial legacies. Drawing on an extensive study of ASI records, this book explores the bureaucratic machinery behind heritage management and the everyday work of ASI officers. It examines how decisions were made, implemented, and contested on the ground, and sheds light on alternative courses for Indian archaeology and conservation. The author,

is a historian specializing in contemporary South Asia, heritage studies, and postcolonial state formation. He holds a doctorate in South Asian Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin, awarded summa cum laude, for his research on heritage conservation policies in post-independence India. His research work engages with historiography, identity narratives, and the bureaucratic dimensions of cultural policy. He teaches at Sciences Po and INALCO and is associated with the Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CNRS-EHESS) in Paris. He has previously worked in the foreign policy sector in Delhi and Mumbai. To procure a copy please click on the link given below: https://primusbooks.com/.../preserving-the-past.../...

The Trials of a Nation by Priya Jain - 2026

The Trials of a Nation by Priya Jain How Crises, Conflicts and Courts Shaped Modern India | Constitutional Law, Indian Politics, Landmark Judgements & Modern Indian History Some events don’t just make history―they redefine a Republic. Democracies are not tested during peaceful times. They are tested during fear, anger, division and uncertainty. India’s journey is no exception. In this book, Priya Jain, founder of Finology Legal―a platform dedicated to making law and constitutional issues accessible to everyday Indians―examines ten defining moments that reshaped the relationship between the Indian state and its citizens and changed the course of the Republic itself. From the framing of the Constitution and the first general election to the trauma of the Emergency, the Republic has repeatedly been forced to confront its own limits. Later events, such as the 1991 economic reforms, changed India’s economic direction, while tragedies like 26/11 and the Nirbhaya case exposed deep failures in security and criminal justice. The book also explores moments where law collided with faith, identity and federal power, including the Ram Janmabhoomi–Babri Masjid dispute and the abrogation of Article 370. Penguin India Priya Jain

Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Merleau-Ponty (Continental Philosophy I)

420 This collection examines the development of continental thought after Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the increasingly uncertain boundary between philosophy and other intellectual disciplines. Its essays address thinkers including Heidegger, Sartre, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, Derrida, Habermas, Levinas, and Barthes. Together, they explore how phenomenology opened into structuralism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, poststructuralism, critical theory, and deconstruction. The volume considers whether philosophy can still claim a distinct method or subject when its central questions are also pursued through linguistics, literature, politics, and social theory. Particular attention is given to embodiment, language, interpretation, subjectivity, difference, and ethical relations with others. Rather than presenting a continuous historical narrative, the book maps a diverse field of arguments about what philosophy becomes when it confronts its limits and enters sustained dialogue with supposedly “non-philosophical” forms of knowledge.

Crossroads After Communism by Binio S. Binev - 2026

A cross-regional perspective on how neoliberalism shaped illiberalism in Eastern Europe and Latin America. 📚 https://cup.org/4u9DdD0

Paul Ricoeur - History and Truth -2026

This collection examines how historical knowledge can pursue truth despite being produced by situated, interpreting human beings.

rejects both naïve objectivism, which treats history as a neutral record of facts, and radical relativism, which reduces every account to personal perspective. He argues that responsible history requires evidence, critical distance, interpretation, and an honest awareness of the historian’s assumptions. The essays extend this inquiry into questions of political power, violence, work, civilization, Christianity, and modern social life. Throughout the book, history appears not merely as a completed past but as an unfinished field of meaning that shapes present action and future possibility. Ricoeur’s approach joins philosophical reflection with ethical concern, suggesting that historical truth is gradually approached through disciplined inquiry, dialogue, and the correction of competing interpretations rather than secured through a single final explanation.

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