There have been a number of wonderful recent reviews and opportunities to engage with colleagues and critics of the Transparency in Postwar France and The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe books, and I thought I’d compile these, just as the press is doing for their website.
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe
· Isis 110:2 (June 2019— Rob Boddice), 435-36 — “a tour de force.”
· Nuncius 34:2 (2019—Elisabetta Basso), 478–480— “fascinating and extremely rich… each chapter represents an autonomous and full-fledged study.”
· Bulletin of the History of Medicine 93:2 (2019—Peter Leese), 282-283
· “The Human Body on the Verge of Collapse,” Somatosphere (Ketil Slagstad), here.
· Choice 56.6 (Feb. 2019) p.774—‘Recommended.’
· Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 74: 4 (2019 –Lan A. Li), here.
· H-Soz-u-Kult (16.4.2019, Bettina Zangerl), here.
· “How Did Humanism Die? How did it Survive?,” Public Books (3/4/2019—Christopher Nealon), here.
· Times Higher Education (January 31, 2019)—"Book of the Week.”
Still forthcoming (to my knowledge):
· History of the Human Sciences—5 review essays, by Nima Bassiri, Stephen Casper, Katja Guenther, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, and Anna Katharina Schaffner, with a response.
Transparency in Postwar France
· “The Concept of Transparency, its History, and the Theory of Begriffsgeschichte,” History and Theory 58, no. 3 (September 2019—Andrew Dunstall), 460-470 — “masterful… a full-blown piece of critical theory”
· H-Diplo Roundtable Review XX no. 37 (May 10, 2019— review essays by Carolyn Dean, Edward Baring, Stephen Sawyer, Iain Stewart, and a response), here.
· Contemporary European History X (2018—Ana I. Keilson), 1-10.
· American Historical Review (June 2019—Sarah Shurts), 1156-57.
· Journal of Modern History (June 2019—Michael Behrent), 457-60, with useful critical points; I responded to this critique when Michael delivered it at FHS here.
Still forthcoming (to my knowledge):
· Syndicate Forum (forthcoming, fall 2019). 5 review essays, by Sandrine Baume, Claire Birchall, Mayanthi Fernando, Nicholas Heron, Laurent Jeanpierre