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Interviews with Scholars of Intellectual History about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

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Daniel R. Schwartz, "Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich: Seven Studies" (de Gruyter, 2024)
May 19, 2024
Shakespeare in America
May 18, 2024
Todd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves" (Repeater, 2024)
May 18, 2024
Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 17, 2024
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
May 17, 2024
Jennifer Dorothy Lee, "Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985" (U California Press, 2024)
May 16, 2024
Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 16, 2024
Sari Nusseibeh, "Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy" (Routledge, 2018)
May 16, 2024
Christopher Tounsel, "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
May 15, 2024
Lauren Horn Griffin, "Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity" (Brill, 2023)
May 14, 2024
Liliana Doganova, "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 14, 2024
Sony Coráñez Bolton, "Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 14, 2024
Inhuman
May 14, 2024
Siân E. Grønlie, "The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
May 13, 2024
Cecily N. Zander, "The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era" (LSU Press, 2024)
May 12, 2024
Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
May 12, 2024
Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew" (Brill, 2023)
May 11, 2024
Mark Dooley, "Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 09, 2024
Sean Griffin, "The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 07, 2024
Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
May 06, 2024
Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society" (Princeton UP, 2019)
May 05, 2024
Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
May 05, 2024
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
May 04, 2024
Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 02, 2024
Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis
May 01, 2024
Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
May 01, 2024
Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Apr 30, 2024
Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
Apr 29, 2024
Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019)
Apr 28, 2024
Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)
Apr 27, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
Apr 26, 2024
Alexander Statman, "A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 25, 2024
Crawford Gribben, "J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2024
Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)
Apr 23, 2024
Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 23, 2024
On the History and Evolution of Zionism
Apr 22, 2024
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 22, 2024
Vaia Touna and Richard Newton, "Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 21, 2024
Debby Koren, "Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities Through 16th- And 17th-Century Responsa" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Apr 18, 2024
Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert
Apr 18, 2024
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
Apr 17, 2024
Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 15, 2024
Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 15, 2024
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Apr 15, 2024
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 15, 2024
R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023)
Apr 13, 2024
Seamus O'Malley, "Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 11, 2024
Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
Apr 10, 2024
Charles William Johns, "Hegel and Speculative Realism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Apr 10, 2024
Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)
Apr 10, 2024
Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 09, 2024
James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 09, 2024
Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Apr 08, 2024
Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)
Apr 08, 2024
Enactivism, Embodiment, and the Gorier Stuff with Marilyn Stendera
Apr 07, 2024
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)
Apr 05, 2024
Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
Apr 04, 2024
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, "Merits of the Plague" (Penguin, 2023)
Apr 02, 2024
Alexej Lochmatow, "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956" (Routledge, 2023)
Apr 01, 2024
Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Mar 29, 2024
Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen, "The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024
Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
Michael Ortiz, "Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism" (Bloombury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
Chia-ling Yang, "Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
William Bain, "Political Theology of International Order" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 26, 2024
Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2024
Aaron Clift, "Anticommunism in French Society and Politics, 1945-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 25, 2024
Maarten Couttenier, "Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 24, 2024
Marc-William Palen, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 23, 2024
Isaac Deutscher, "Lenin's Childhood" (Verso, 2024)
Mar 20, 2024
Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Mar 20, 2024
Stephen Phillips, "The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Adi-Sakara on the Isa Upanisad" (Bloombury, 2024)
Mar 20, 2024
How to Be a Good Statesman: Johnny Burtka on Political Leadership from Xenophon to Churchill
Mar 19, 2024
Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 18, 2024
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)
Mar 18, 2024
SherAli Tareen, "Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long, "Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Mar 14, 2024
Janine Giordano Drake, "The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2024
Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2024
Travis Rieder, "Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices" (Dutton, 2024)
Mar 13, 2024
Sofia Rehman, "Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentering the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Daniel Tutt, "How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche" (Repeater, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Surya Parekh, "Black Enlightenment" (Duke UP, 2023)
Mar 12, 2024
Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024
Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" (LIttle, Brown, 2023)
Mar 10, 2024
Myrto Garani et al., "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 09, 2024
Dariusz Tołczyk, "Blissful Blindness: Soviet Crimes under Western Eyes" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Mar 08, 2024
Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 08, 2024
Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 08, 2024
The Reeducation of Race with Sonali Thakkar (JP)
Mar 07, 2024
Murray Dick, "The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 07, 2024
Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Mar 06, 2024
Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 06, 2024
Baidik Bhattacharya, "Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 05, 2024
Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 04, 2024
Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 04, 2024
Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 03, 2024
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2024
Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
Mar 01, 2024
Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Dominique Scarfone, "The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Christian R. Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy" (Yale UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Till Van Rahden, "Multiplicity: Jewish History and the Ambivalences of Universalism" (Hamburger Editionen, 2022)
Feb 24, 2024
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 24, 2024
Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 22, 2024
Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Feb 22, 2024
Harriet Lyon, "Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 22, 2024
T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2024
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2024
Ricky W. Law, "Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German Japanese Relations, 1919-1936" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2024
Torsa Ghosal, "Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Feb 20, 2024
Todd McGowan, "Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Feb 19, 2024
Isabel B. Taylor, "The Crown and Its Records: Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England" (De Gruyter, 2023)
Feb 19, 2024
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 18, 2024
Lawrence Glickman, "Free Enterprise: An American History" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 18, 2024
Ed Simon, "Relic" (Bloomsbury. 2024)
Feb 15, 2024
Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 14, 2024
Jewish War Ethics, Ancient to Contemporary: A Conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Brody
Feb 14, 2024
Patrick Gamsby, "The Discourse of Scholarly Communication" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Feb 14, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 13, 2024
Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2024
Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 10, 2024
Seth Zuiho Segall, "The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism" (Equinox, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Jeffery D. Long, "Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
The Future of the Future: A Discussion with Jonathan White
Feb 07, 2024
Daniel Capper, "Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 05, 2024
Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 05, 2024
Greg Ellermann, "Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Feb 03, 2024
Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 03, 2024
Bedross Der Matossian, "The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 03, 2024
Jon Paul Sydnor and Anthony J. Watson, "Nondualism: An Interreligious Exploration" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Alberto Toscano, "Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis" (Verso, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024
Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
Jan 30, 2024
Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024
Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024
John J. Michalczyk et al.. "Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jan 27, 2024
Hillel Goldberg, "Across the Expanse of Jewish Thought: From the Holocaust to Halakhah and Beyond" (Ktav, 2022)
Jan 27, 2024
Renée Fox, "The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Jan 27, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Caleb Wellum, "Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
Jan 25, 2024
Amar Sohal, "The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024
Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Jan 23, 2024
Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Jan 22, 2024
Guido Parietti, "On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 22, 2024
On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield
Jan 22, 2024
Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024
Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 21, 2024
The Future of Images of Human Evolution
Jan 20, 2024
Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024
Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024
Veena R. Howard, "Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challenges" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Jan 18, 2024
Karen C. Pinto, "Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 16, 2024
Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 16, 2024
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Douglas S. Duckworth, "Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 15, 2024
Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024
Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 11, 2024
Krista K. Thomason, "Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 10, 2024
Jennifer Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 10, 2024
Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jan 09, 2024
Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)
Jan 09, 2024
Christian Coseru on Perceiving Reality
Jan 08, 2024
Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jan 07, 2024
Sara Rahnama, "The Future Is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 07, 2024
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 06, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
Jan 06, 2024
Pavel Khazanov, "The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Jan 06, 2024
Martyn Whittock, "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Jan 05, 2024
Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Jan 05, 2024
Plot
Jan 04, 2024
Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
Jan 04, 2024
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jan 04, 2024
Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
Jan 04, 2024
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Jan 02, 2024
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
Jan 02, 2024
Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Jan 01, 2024
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jan 01, 2024
Jason Read, "The Politics of Transindividuality" (Haymarket Books, 2017)
Dec 31, 2023
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Dec 30, 2023
Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
Dec 30, 2023
Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 30, 2023
Nature-Study
Dec 29, 2023
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
Dec 29, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me
Dec 29, 2023
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023
Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 28, 2023
Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the New Testament" (Eerdmans, 2020)
Dec 27, 2023
Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)
Dec 26, 2023
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 25, 2023
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2023
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
Dec 22, 2023
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023
Ricardo Sousa Silvestre et al., "Vaiṣṇava Concepts of God: Philosophical Perspectives" (Routledge, 2024)
Dec 21, 2023
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin, "Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
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Dec 17, 2023
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Dec 14, 2023
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Dec 14, 2023
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Dec 11, 2023
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Dec 10, 2023
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Dec 10, 2023
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Dec 10, 2023
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Dec 09, 2023
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Dec 06, 2023
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Dec 05, 2023
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Dec 04, 2023
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Dec 04, 2023
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Dec 03, 2023
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Dec 02, 2023
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Dec 01, 2023
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Nov 30, 2023
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Nov 30, 2023
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Nov 29, 2023
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Nov 29, 2023
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Nov 29, 2023
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Nov 28, 2023
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Nov 27, 2023
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Nov 27, 2023
Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of History" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023
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Nov 24, 2023
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Nov 24, 2023
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Nov 23, 2023
Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson, "Phenomenology of Black Spirit" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Nov 22, 2023
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Nov 19, 2023
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Nov 18, 2023
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Nov 18, 2023
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Nov 17, 2023
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Nov 17, 2023
Keith Cantú, "Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami And Śivarājayoga" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 16, 2023
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Nov 16, 2023
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Nov 15, 2023
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Nov 15, 2023
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Nov 15, 2023
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Nov 14, 2023
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Nov 14, 2023
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Nov 13, 2023
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Nov 13, 2023
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Nov 13, 2023
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Nov 13, 2023
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Nov 12, 2023
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Nov 11, 2023
Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)
Nov 07, 2023
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Nov 05, 2023
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Nov 05, 2023
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Nov 04, 2023
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Nov 03, 2023
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Nov 01, 2023
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Nov 01, 2023
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Nov 01, 2023
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Oct 30, 2023
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Oct 27, 2023
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Oct 26, 2023
Stuart McHardy, "The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World" (Luath Press, 2023)
Oct 26, 2023
Scott Kamen, "From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023
Matthew Thiessen, "A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles" (Baker Academic, 2023)
Oct 22, 2023
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Oct 22, 2023
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Oct 21, 2023
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Oct 21, 2023
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Oct 20, 2023
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Oct 19, 2023
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Oct 18, 2023
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Oct 18, 2023
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Oct 16, 2023
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Oct 15, 2023
Ben Witherington III, "Paul's Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary" (Eerdmans, 2004)
Oct 14, 2023
Patrick Laude, "Surrendering to the Self: Ramana Maharshi's Message for the Present" (Hurst, 2021)
Oct 12, 2023
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023
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Oct 11, 2023
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Oct 10, 2023
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Oct 10, 2023
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Oct 07, 2023
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Oct 06, 2023
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Oct 04, 2023
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Oct 03, 2023
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Oct 02, 2023
Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War" (U Iowa Press, 2015)
Oct 01, 2023
Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 01, 2023
Michelle Karnes, "Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 30, 2023
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Sep 30, 2023
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Sep 29, 2023
Sumit Chakrabarti, "Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 28, 2023
Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 27, 2023
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Sep 27, 2023
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Sep 27, 2023
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Sep 26, 2023
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
Sep 26, 2023
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Sep 25, 2023
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Sep 25, 2023
Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2023
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Sep 21, 2023
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Sep 20, 2023
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Sep 19, 2023
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Sep 18, 2023
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Sep 17, 2023
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Sep 16, 2023
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Sep 16, 2023
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Sep 15, 2023
Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2023
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Sep 13, 2023
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Sep 13, 2023
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Sep 12, 2023
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Sep 12, 2023
Jacob Abell, "Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Sep 12, 2023
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Sep 10, 2023
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
Sep 10, 2023
Jared Secord, "Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire: From Justin Martyr to Origen" (Penn State UP, 2020)
Sep 09, 2023
Vincent W. Lloyd, "Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination" (Yale UP, 2022)
Sep 09, 2023
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Sep 09, 2023
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Sep 08, 2023
Oliver Crisp and Daniel J. Hill, eds., "Reason in the Service of Faith: Collected Essays of Paul Helm" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 08, 2023
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Sep 07, 2023
Matthew W. Knotts, "On Creation, Science, Disenchantment and the Contours of Being and Knowing" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Sep 05, 2023
The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul
Sep 05, 2023
Endre Sashalmi, "Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Sep 04, 2023
Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)
Sep 02, 2023
Hans Van Eyghen, "The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 01, 2023
Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2023
H. Norman Strickman, "The Secret of the Torah: A Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Sefer Yesod Mora" (Kodesh Press, 2021)
Aug 30, 2023
Joshua Daniel Schachterle, "John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
Aug 30, 2023
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Aug 29, 2023
Sara Protasi, "The Philosophy of Envy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2023
Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 28, 2023
The Ideology of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Robert Eberhart
Aug 28, 2023
Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Aug 26, 2023
Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 25, 2023
Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 25, 2023
Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Aug 24, 2023
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Aug 24, 2023
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Aug 23, 2023
Thomas Simpson, "The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 22, 2023
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Aug 21, 2023
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Aug 20, 2023
Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Aug 20, 2023
Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)
Aug 19, 2023
Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)
Aug 19, 2023
Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Aug 19, 2023
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Aug 18, 2023
Jason Weiner, "Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023
Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 15, 2023
Yehuda Halper, "Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa" (Brill, 2021)
Aug 15, 2023
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Aug 14, 2023
Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
Aug 14, 2023
Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship Between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 13, 2023
Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Aug 12, 2023
Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Aug 11, 2023
Jon Stewart, "A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 09, 2023
Stanley E. Porter and Alan E. Kurschner eds., "The Future Restoration of Israel: A Response to Supersessionism" (Pickwick, 2023)
Aug 08, 2023
Yoni Furas, "Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History Under the Mandate" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 07, 2023
Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)
Aug 06, 2023
Daniel G Hummel, "The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation" (William B. Eerdmans, 2023)
Aug 05, 2023
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 04, 2023
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Aug 03, 2023
Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Aug 02, 2023
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
Aug 01, 2023
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Jul 30, 2023
Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023
Zhihua Yao, "Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jul 30, 2023
Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev
Jul 29, 2023
Marzia Milazzo, "Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Jul 29, 2023
Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jul 29, 2023
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Jul 28, 2023
Richard N. Langlois, "The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jul 27, 2023
Melissa Shew and Kimberly Garchar, "Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 25, 2023
Ismay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 25, 2023
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Jul 24, 2023
Yamin Levy, "The Mysticism of Andalusia: Exploring HaRambam's Mystical Tradition" (MHC Press, 2023)
Jul 23, 2023
Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 22, 2023
Paul Hanebrink, "In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jul 21, 2023
Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023
"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)
Jul 21, 2023
Dimitry Shevchenko, "Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self: Mirror of Self: Models of Consciousness in Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita Vedānta" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 20, 2023
Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
Jul 18, 2023
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 18, 2023
Nick Witham, "Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023
Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 16, 2023
Wayne Deakin, "Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Jul 14, 2023
Ankur Barua, "Exploring Hindu Philosophy" (Equinox Publishing, 2023)
Jul 13, 2023
Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
Jul 11, 2023
Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 10, 2023
Torin Alter, "The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russellian Monism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 10, 2023
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Jul 10, 2023
Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 09, 2023
Nicole Bauer, "Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jul 08, 2023
Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jul 08, 2023
Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 07, 2023
Marco Caboara, "Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735" (Brill, 2022)
Jul 06, 2023
Maxwell Kennel, "Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement" (Brill, 2023)
Jul 06, 2023
James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Jul 06, 2023
Derek Attridge, "The Singularity of Literature" (Routledge, 2017)
Jul 05, 2023
Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 04, 2023
Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Jul 03, 2023
Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 03, 2023
Greg A. Salazar, "Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 01, 2023
John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jul 01, 2023
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Jun 30, 2023
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Jun 30, 2023
Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 29, 2023
Michael Muhammad Knight, "Sufi Deleuze: Secretions of Islamic Atheism" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Jun 28, 2023
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023
Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Jun 26, 2023
Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
Jun 25, 2023
Andy Karr, "Into the Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality" (Shambhala, 2023)
Jun 25, 2023
Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 25, 2023
Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)
Jun 23, 2023
Chris Millington, "The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023
James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023
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Jun 20, 2023
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Jun 20, 2023
Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2023
Rachel E. Walker, "Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 19, 2023
Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 18, 2023
Chris Manias, "The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
Jun 17, 2023
Brett Brehm, "Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023
Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jun 15, 2023
Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 15, 2023
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 15, 2023
Michael B. Gill, "A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Jun 14, 2023
Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism
Jun 13, 2023
The Rhetoric of Decline
Jun 13, 2023
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Jun 12, 2023
Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, "Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023
Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 09, 2023
Doug Enaa Greene, "Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn: Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union" (Lexington, 2023)
Jun 09, 2023
Loriliai Biernacki, "The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 08, 2023
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jun 08, 2023
Xin Fan, "World History and National Identity in China: The Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 07, 2023
Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington
Jun 06, 2023
Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 05, 2023
Jonathan Abel, "Guibert's General Essay on Tactics" (Brill, 2021)
Jun 04, 2023
Lorenzo Costaguta, "Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Jun 03, 2023
Scott R. Stroud, "The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 03, 2023
Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 03, 2023
Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 02, 2023
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
Jun 01, 2023
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
May 31, 2023
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 31, 2023
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
May 30, 2023
Mariana Alessandri, "Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 30, 2023
Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire
May 29, 2023
Max Weiss, "Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria" (Stanford UP, 2022)
May 28, 2023
Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
May 28, 2023
Naoíse Mac Sweeney, "The West: A New History of an Old Idea" (Dutton, 2023)
May 27, 2023
Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 26, 2023
Patrick J. Corbeil, "Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
May 26, 2023
The Hundred Year War for the American Right: A Conversation with Matthew Continetti
May 25, 2023
Alaina Kaus, "Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
May 25, 2023
Elise Coquereau-Saouma and Daniel Raveh, "The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya" (Routledge, 2022)
May 25, 2023
Avigail Rock, "Great Biblical Commentators: Biographies, Methodologies, and Contributions" (Maggid, 2023)
May 23, 2023
Bruce Pass, ed., "Herman Bavinck, "On Theology: Herman Bavinck's Academic Orations" (Brill, 2020)
May 22, 2023
James Poskett, "Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science" (Mariner Books, 2022)
May 21, 2023
Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony
May 20, 2023
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 20, 2023
Dilip M. Menon and Nishat Zaidi, "Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought" (Routledge, 2023)
May 20, 2023
The Origins of the Modern Self: A Conversation with Carl Trueman
May 19, 2023
Simon Cox on the Subtle Body
May 18, 2023
Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 18, 2023
Matt Dawson, "The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies" (Routledge, 2023)
May 17, 2023
Bruce R. Pass, "The Heart of Dogmatics: Christology and Christocentrism in Herman Bavinck" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020)
May 17, 2023
Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer, "The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 16, 2023
Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America: A Conversation with Glenn Ellmers
May 16, 2023
Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)
May 16, 2023
Annabel L. Kim, "Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
May 14, 2023
Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
May 13, 2023
Alvin J. Henry, "Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
May 13, 2023
Bedross Der Matossian, "Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
May 12, 2023
Michael Brown, "Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 12, 2023
Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
May 11, 2023
Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
May 11, 2023
Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
May 10, 2023
Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 10, 2023
Christianity and the American Founding with Mark David Hall
May 09, 2023
The Education of Cyrus: A Conversation with Shilo Brooks
May 08, 2023
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 07, 2023
Plato’s Symposium: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
May 05, 2023
Semiotext(e): The Theory Press
May 04, 2023
John McCannon, "Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
May 03, 2023
Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)
May 03, 2023
Daniel Roth, "Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism: Text, Theory, and Practice" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 03, 2023
Plato's Republic (Books VIII and IX): A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
May 02, 2023
Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics
May 02, 2023
Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
May 01, 2023
Jo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)
May 01, 2023
Citizenship
Apr 30, 2023
K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023
Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 29, 2023
Pablo Bradbury, "Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983): Faith and Revolution" (Tamesis Books, 2023)
Apr 29, 2023
Locke, Tocqueville, and Civic Education: A Conversation with Jeffrey Sikkenga
Apr 28, 2023
Teena U. Purohit, "Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 28, 2023
All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Apr 27, 2023
Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)
Apr 27, 2023
Evert van der Zweerde, "Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Apr 26, 2023
Ferenc Hörcher, "Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Apr 25, 2023
Timothy Sean Quinn, "Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon" (Hebrew Union College Press, 2021)
Apr 24, 2023
Eberhard Guhe, "An Indian Theory of Defeasible Reasoning: The Doctrine of Upādhi in the Upādhidarpaṇa" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Apr 23, 2023
The Apology of Socrates: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
Apr 22, 2023
Plato and the Dialogues: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
Apr 22, 2023
Li-Chun Hsiao, "The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Apr 21, 2023
Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom
Apr 20, 2023
Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)
Apr 20, 2023
Graham Harman, "The Graham Harman Reader" (Zero Books, 2023)
Apr 19, 2023
Lincoln at Gettysburg: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Apr 18, 2023
Benjamin E. Park, "American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Apr 18, 2023
Joshua Myers, "Of Black Study" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Apr 17, 2023
Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
Apr 17, 2023
Quinn Slobodian, "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy" (Metropolitan, 2023)
Apr 17, 2023
Aleksandar Uskokov, "The Philosophy of the Brahma-sutra: An Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Apr 16, 2023
Donald Harman Akenson, "The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible" (Oxford UP. 2023)
Apr 16, 2023
David Edmonds, "Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 15, 2023
The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich
Apr 15, 2023
George Washington and American Honor: A Conversation with Craig Bruce Smith
Apr 14, 2023
Freddy Foks, "Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain" (U California Press, 2023)
Apr 14, 2023
A Warning to the West: A Conversation with Sergiu Klainerman
Apr 13, 2023
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2023
David Baumeister, "Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Apr 12, 2023
The Roots of Equity and Equality: A Conversation with Teresa Bejan
Apr 11, 2023
Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023
Daniel Neofetou, "Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 09, 2023
Mercedes Valmisa, "Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 08, 2023
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
Apr 07, 2023
Helen Small, "The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 07, 2023
The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)
Apr 06, 2023
God, The Founders, and Natural Law: A Conversation with Phil Muñoz
Apr 05, 2023
Lost in Thought: A Conversation with Zena Hitz
Apr 05, 2023
Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)
Apr 05, 2023
Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish Modernism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Apr 05, 2023
Joseph Giacomelli, "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 05, 2023
Natilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Apr 05, 2023
Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 03, 2023
Andrew D. Berns, "The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Apr 02, 2023
Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
Apr 02, 2023
Foluke Adebisi, "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Apr 02, 2023
Philip Jenkins, "He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives of Psalm 91" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 01, 2023
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2023
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Mar 30, 2023
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Mar 30, 2023
Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, eds., "Class Warrior: The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley" (Athabasca UP, 2022)
Mar 28, 2023
Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023
Joshua D. Schendel, "The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction: A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)" (Brill, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023
Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 25, 2023
Lee Trepanier, "Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID" (Routledge, 2022)
Mar 23, 2023
Present at the Creation: Edward Mead Earle and the Depression-Era Origins of Security Studies
Mar 22, 2023
Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023
John P. Bequette, "Bede the Theologian: History, Rhetoric, and Spirituality" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023
Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023
David Weiss, "The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 19, 2023
Arya Aryan, "The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton" (Cambridge Scholars, 2022)
Mar 19, 2023
Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
Mar 19, 2023
Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)
Mar 18, 2023
Annie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Mar 17, 2023
Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
Mar 17, 2023
Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2023
Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 16, 2023
Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal, "Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 16, 2023
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 14, 2023
Rahul Sagar, "The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 13, 2023
The Evolution of Language
Mar 11, 2023
Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2023
Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 11, 2023
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Mar 10, 2023
Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023
Constantin Iordachi, "The Fascist Faith of the Legion Archangel Michael in Romania, 1927-1941: From Martyrdom to Purification" (Routledge, 2022)
Mar 08, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey
Mar 08, 2023
Jacqueline Broad, "Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 08, 2023
Choice Architecture
Mar 07, 2023
Ben Dodds, "Myths and Memories of the Black Death" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Mar 06, 2023
Charlie Samuelson, "Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Mar 03, 2023
Reuven Mohl, "Faith Fulfilled: Megillat Esther and Ma'ariv Evening Service for Purim" (Urim Publications, 2022)
Mar 03, 2023
Chien-Wen Kung, "Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 03, 2023
Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Mar 02, 2023
Veena R. Howard et al., "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Mar 02, 2023
Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
Ron Hirschbein and Amin Asfari, "Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination" (Routledge, 2023)
Feb 26, 2023
Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
Feb 25, 2023
Joseph T. Stuart, "Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023
Chris Bongie, trans. and ed., "The Colonial System Unveiled by Baron de Vastey" (Liverpool UP, 2014)
Feb 21, 2023
Azzan Yadin-Israel, "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 20, 2023
Garima Garg, "Heavens and Earth: The Story of Astrology Through Ages and Cultures" (Penguin, 2023)
Feb 20, 2023
Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 20, 2023
Aurelian Craiutu, "Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
Feb 19, 2023
Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 19, 2023
Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023)
Feb 18, 2023
Hadia Mubarak, "Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023
Joseph MacKay, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination: A New Intellectual History" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023
Marnia Lazreg, "Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
Feb 17, 2023
Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023
Historians Examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology
Feb 15, 2023
Kathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)
Feb 15, 2023
Chris Kaczor and Matthew Petrusek, "Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity" (Word on Fire Institute, 2021)
Feb 14, 2023
Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)
Feb 13, 2023
M. Christhu Doss, "India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonising the Mind" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 12, 2023
Golda Akhiezer, "Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism Among the Karaites of Eastern Europe" (Brill, 2017)
Feb 11, 2023
Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023
Chantelle Gray, "Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023
Bruce Kuklick, "Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 08, 2023
Robert J. Dostal, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Feb 07, 2023
Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
Feb 06, 2023
Chris Boesel, "In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms: Why Derrida Doesn't Read Kierkegaard When He Reads Kierkegaard" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
Feb 06, 2023
Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Feb 06, 2023
Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 05, 2023
Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi
Feb 04, 2023
Sean Hannan, "On Time, Change, History, and Conversion" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Feb 04, 2023
Michah Gottlieb, "The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism As Spiritual Enterprise" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 04, 2023
Susan Stewart, "The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Feb 04, 2023
Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony
Feb 03, 2023
Horton's Cosmic Zoom: A Discussion with Zachary Horton
Feb 02, 2023
Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979)
Feb 02, 2023
Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Feb 01, 2023
Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 01, 2023
100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism
Feb 01, 2023
Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Feb 01, 2023
David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 31, 2023
Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jan 31, 2023
Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 31, 2023
Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jan 30, 2023
The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
Jan 30, 2023
Matthew Galway, "The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 30, 2023
Apocalypse Past, Present, and Future: Thinking about the End in History and Culture
Jan 29, 2023
Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 28, 2023
Stephen C. Finley, "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 27, 2023
Susannah Heschel, "The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany" (Princeton UP, 2010)
Jan 27, 2023
Igor H. De Souza, "Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed" (de Gruyter, 2018)
Jan 27, 2023
Frank Wolff, "Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
Jan 25, 2023
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2023
Stealing the Canon: Who Should Be In and Who Should Be Out?
Jan 24, 2023
Near Death Experience
Jan 23, 2023
Mostafa Minawi, "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 23, 2023
Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jan 23, 2023
The Thought of Ivan Illich
Jan 20, 2023
Youshaa Patel, "The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 20, 2023
Better Call Paul: How Did the Early Jewish Christians Understand “Works of the Law”?
Jan 19, 2023
Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)
Jan 19, 2023
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Gila Ashtor, "Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche" (Routledge, 2021)
Jan 18, 2023
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2023
Michael Joseph Roberto, "The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940" (Monthly Review Press, 2018)
Jan 17, 2023
Richard Davenport-Hines, "Conservative Thinkers from All Souls College Oxford" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Jan 15, 2023
On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)
Jan 15, 2023
Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023
Restless Pilgrims: About CS Lewis
Jan 11, 2023
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023
Enlightened Cynicism: Should We Be More Cynical Than We Are?
Jan 11, 2023
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023
Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jan 10, 2023
Romani Representation in Pop Culture
Jan 09, 2023
Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)
Jan 09, 2023
Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts
Jan 09, 2023
What about Hell? CS Lewis and Theology of the Afterlife
Jan 08, 2023
Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff, "Reconstructing the Talmud: An Introduction to the Academic Study of Rabbinic Literature" (Hadar Press, 2014)
Jan 08, 2023
Mirror Image: New Technologies and the Self
Jan 07, 2023
Urvashi Chakravarty, "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jan 07, 2023
Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)
Jan 07, 2023
Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Jan 06, 2023
Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Jan 06, 2023
Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"
Jan 06, 2023
On W. H. Auden
Jan 05, 2023
Matthew J. Hart and Daniel J. Hill, "Does God Intend that Sin Occur?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Jan 05, 2023
Lorraine Daston Rules the World (EF, JP)
Jan 05, 2023
Melila Hellner-Eshed, "Seekers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rabba (the Great Assembly) of the Zohar" (Stanford UP. 2021)
Jan 04, 2023
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 03, 2023
Aaron W. Hughes, "Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast" (NYU Press, 2016)
Jan 03, 2023
Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 03, 2023
Donovan O. Schaefer, "Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jan 02, 2023
Gareth Dale, et al., "Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age: Struggling to Be Born?" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
Jan 02, 2023
The Shape of History: Thinking Historically and Changing History
Jan 02, 2023
Josiah Ober, "The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 01, 2023
The Gospels in the Early Church: Evidence for the Chronology and Transmission of the Christian Scriptures
Dec 31, 2022
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Dec 31, 2022
Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 31, 2022
Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
Dec 30, 2022
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Dec 29, 2022
Ed Cohen, "On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn't Know" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022
Eren Duzgun, "Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022
Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022
Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
Dec 27, 2022
Historian Laurence Stone on the Role and Revival of Narrative in History
Dec 27, 2022
Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 26, 2022
Pedro Lebrón Ortiz, "The Philosophy of Marronage" (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021)
Dec 25, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3
Dec 25, 2022
Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022
Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Dec 25, 2022
Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 24, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 2 of 3
Dec 24, 2022
Kenneth B. Moss, "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 24, 2022
Annie Reiner, "W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 24, 2022
Neurasthenia
Dec 23, 2022
The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 1 of 3
Dec 23, 2022
Elena Goodwin, "Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 23, 2022
Nathanael Vette, "Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark" (T&T Clark, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
Arya Aryan, "The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Dec 23, 2022
Sam Slote et al., "Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022
Jacob Kramer, "The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origins of Repressive Tolerance" (Temple UP, 2015)
Dec 21, 2022
On Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time"
Dec 21, 2022
Jane Freeland, "Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
Karma Ben-Johanan, "Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 19, 2022
Pamela H. Smith, "From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 19, 2022
Efram Sera-Shriar, "Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022
Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022
J. V. Fesko, "The Spirit of the Age: The 19th-Century Debate Over the Holy Spirit and the Westminster Confession" (Reformation Heritage, 2017)
Dec 17, 2022
Jingjing Li, "Comparing Husserl's Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World: A Journey Beyond Orientalism" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Samuel J. Redman, "Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
On Voltaire's "Candide"
Dec 14, 2022
David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 13, 2022
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Dec 12, 2022
Leigh T. I. Penman, "The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dec 11, 2022
Matthew Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 10, 2022
Yannis Stouraitis, "Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022
On Hans Blumenberg's "The Legitimacy of the Modern Age"
Dec 09, 2022
Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Dec 08, 2022
Ayelet Zohar, "The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan: (De)Colonialism, Orientalism, and Imagining Asia" (Brill, 2022)
Dec 07, 2022
Jay Michaelson, "The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 06, 2022
Second Thoughts on Consistency: A Lecture by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Dec 06, 2022
Jasmine Calver, "Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Yochai Ataria, "Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Yoram Hazony, "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" (Regnery Publishing,2022)
Dec 05, 2022
Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)
Dec 04, 2022
Andrew Spria, "Foreshadowed: Malevich’s "Black Square" and Its Precursors" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Dec 03, 2022
Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
Dec 03, 2022
Irene Hilden, "Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies" (Leuven UP, 2022)
Dec 03, 2022
Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 03, 2022
Civil Disobedience
Dec 02, 2022
Huw J. Davies, "The Wandering Army: The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War" (Yale UP, 2022)
Dec 01, 2022
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 01, 2022
Alexander Kirshner, "Legitimate Opposition" (Yale UP, 2022)
Dec 01, 2022
Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry, "Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Nov 30, 2022
Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires
Nov 30, 2022
Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
Nov 30, 2022
Viren Murthy, "The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 29, 2022
On Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth"
Nov 29, 2022
Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2022
On George Orwell's "1984"
Nov 28, 2022
Aidan Enright, "Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Four Courts, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022
Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
Nov 24, 2022
Travis Zadeh, "Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Nov 24, 2022
Sushmita Nath, "The Secular Imaginary: Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022
Gary Kates, "The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022
Eric MacGilvray, "Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World" (Duke UP, 2021)
Nov 23, 2022
On Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish"
Nov 22, 2022
Constantin Noica, "Pray for Brother Alexander" (Punctum Books, 2018)
Nov 22, 2022
Michael Genovese, "The Modern Presidency: Six Debates That Define the Institution" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses, "Genocide: Key Themes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" (Viking, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Dawne Y. Curry, "Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Alda Benjamen, "Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 21, 2022
Charles Goodman, "The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
On Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"
Nov 18, 2022
Deiter Reinisch, "Learning behind Bars: How IRA Prisoners Shaped the Peace Process in Ireland" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Sophie Lewis, "Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 17, 2022
Ethnonationalism since 1973: A Discussion with Quinn Slobodian
Nov 17, 2022
Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 17, 2022
On Victor and Edith Turner's "The Forest of Symbols"
Nov 17, 2022
On Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy"
Nov 16, 2022
Adam Laats, "Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 16, 2022
James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó, "The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition" (Institut français de Pondichéry, 2021)
Nov 16, 2022
Science Against the People: Anti-Capitalist Science
Nov 16, 2022
Melancholy
Nov 15, 2022
Igor Shoikhedbrod, "Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Nov 14, 2022
Andrea Scheurer, et al., "Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South" (Ibidem Press, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022
Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022
On Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism"
Nov 14, 2022
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022
Jeremy Bangs, "New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration" (Brill, 2019)
Nov 11, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, "Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
On Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's "Elements of the Philosophy of Right"
Nov 11, 2022
Bradley Onishi, "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--And What Comes Next" (Broadleaf Books, 2023)
Nov 10, 2022
Martin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022
J. Richard Middleton, "Abraham's Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God" (Baker Academic, 2021)
Nov 09, 2022
Kimlyn J. Bender and D. Stephen Long, "T&T Clark Handbook of Ecclesiology" (T&T Clark, 2020)
Nov 08, 2022
The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
Nov 08, 2022
Helen De Cruz ed. "Philosophy Illustrated: Forty-Two Thought Experiments to Broaden your Mind" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 08, 2022
On Edward Said's "Orientalism"
Nov 08, 2022
Can We Square the Circle? Universalism Versus Communitarianism
Nov 07, 2022
Daniel Scarborough, "Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 04, 2022
Peter Adamson, "Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy" (U Notre Dame Press, 2022)
Nov 04, 2022
Aufhebunga Bunga and Global Politics
Nov 04, 2022
David Caute, "Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century" (Verso, 2022)
Nov 04, 2022
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Social Contract"
Nov 03, 2022
Jonathan Brunstedt, "The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 03, 2022
Timothy W. Burns, "Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Nov 03, 2022
Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 03, 2022
Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Nov 03, 2022
Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Saba Bazargan-Forward, "Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 01, 2022
Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 01, 2022
Red Cat
Oct 31, 2022
On Augustine's "Confessions"
Oct 31, 2022
Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Oct 31, 2022
Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022
John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Oct 31, 2022
Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas, "What is Europe?" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022
Ágúst Magnússon, "Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
Oct 28, 2022
Bartholomew Ryan, "Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno" (Brill, 2014)
Oct 28, 2022
Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022
John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022
Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Oct 27, 2022
Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022
Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
Oct 26, 2022
Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
On Samuel Smiles' "Self-Help"
Oct 26, 2022
Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Oct 25, 2022
Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
Oct 25, 2022
On Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"
Oct 25, 2022
Yohanan Friedmann, "Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
Oct 22, 2022
Camilla Russell, "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Martin Fárek, "India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies" (Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2021)
Oct 20, 2022
Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 20, 2022
On Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"
Oct 19, 2022
Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022
On Carl von Clausewitz's "On War"
Oct 18, 2022
Robin Waterfield, trans. and ed., "The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022
David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022
Arthur Bradley, "Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Oct 18, 2022
Robin McCoy Brooks, "Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe, and Social Action" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 17, 2022
Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
Oct 17, 2022
On Immanuel Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals"
Oct 17, 2022
Evan Haefeli, "Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Oct 17, 2022
Mark D. Usher, ed. "How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
Sandeep Banerjee, "Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 14, 2022
On Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
Oct 14, 2022
On Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan"
Oct 13, 2022
John Behr, "John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 13, 2022
On Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Oct 12, 2022
Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India" (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2021)
Oct 12, 2022
Peter Coviello, "Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Oct 12, 2022
Gregory Conti, "Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 11, 2022
Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2022
On Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism"
Oct 11, 2022
Andrew Porwancher et al., "The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022
Sarah Fatima Waheed, "Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Oct 07, 2022
Carles Prado-Fonts, "Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
Angela Costley, "Creation and Christ: An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
Oct 07, 2022
Emelia Quinn, "Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 06, 2022
Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Oct 05, 2022
On Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's "Indications of Inimitability"
Oct 04, 2022
Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Oct 03, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 1: Noam Chomsky on Intellectuals and Expertise
Oct 02, 2022
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022
On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"
Sep 30, 2022
On Einstein's Discoveries
Sep 29, 2022
Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
Sep 28, 2022
Christopher Nichols and David Milne, "Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022
Samo Tomšič, "The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy" (Walther Konig Verlag, 2019)
Sep 27, 2022
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Sep 27, 2022
Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
Sep 27, 2022
Writing/Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Perspective
Sep 27, 2022
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022
Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Epistle of Barnabas: A Commentary" (Cascade Books, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022
NBN Classic: Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 25, 2022
NBN Classic: Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Sep 24, 2022
Yoav Ashkenazy, "The Death of Transcendence: Reflections on Jean Améry's 'At the Mind's Limits'" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022
Charles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022
Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022
On Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto"
Sep 23, 2022
Yarimar Bonilla ed. et al., "Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader" (Duke UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022
Andrey V. Ivanov, "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022
Olivier Zunz, "The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
John Peter DiIulio, "Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
Andrew Hadfield, "Literature and Class: From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Sep 20, 2022
Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022
On Plato's "Apology"
Sep 19, 2022
Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
Sep 19, 2022
David Bashevkin, "Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
Sep 19, 2022
Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 19, 2022
Anna Clark, "Making Australian History" (Random House Australia, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
David Reeve, "To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham" (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series / NUS Press, 2022)
Sep 15, 2022
Charles William Johns, "Object Oriented Dialectics: Hegel, Heidegger, Harman" (Mimesis International, 2022)
Sep 15, 2022
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions"
Sep 15, 2022
Michael S. Allen, "The Ocean of Inquiry: Niscaldas and the Premodern Origins of Modern Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 15, 2022
On Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning"
Sep 14, 2022
Jennifer L. Allen, "Sustainable Utopias: The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022
Michael Ignatieff, "On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Sep 14, 2022
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022
On Plato's "The Republic"
Sep 12, 2022
Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
Sep 12, 2022
R. B. More and Satyendra More, "Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More" (Leftword Books, 2020)
Sep 12, 2022
On Maciej Miechowita's "Treatise on the Two Sarmatias"
Sep 09, 2022
Barry Houlihan, "Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Sep 09, 2022
Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)
Sep 09, 2022
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Sep 09, 2022
Jini Kim Watson, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Sep 08, 2022
The Twisted Science of Great Replacement Theory
Sep 08, 2022
William C. Kirby, "Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Sep 08, 2022
Lorgia García Peña, "Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective" (Duke UP, 2022)
Sep 08, 2022
On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
Sep 08, 2022
On Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"
Sep 07, 2022
Neoliberalism
Sep 06, 2022
On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"
Sep 06, 2022
Alexandr Dugin, Russia’s Imperial Philosopher: Into the Mind of a Russian Political Theorist
Sep 06, 2022
Michael Engel, "Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Sep 05, 2022
On John Maynard Keynes’ "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money"
Sep 05, 2022
On "Encyclopédie"
Sep 02, 2022
Manuel Duarte de Oliveira, "Humanity Divided: Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Sep 02, 2022
On Filippo Tomasso Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism"
Sep 01, 2022
Philipp Felsch, "The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990" (Polity Press, 2021)
Sep 01, 2022
Vinayak Chaturvedi, "Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Aug 31, 2022
Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022
E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr." (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022
Robert Edmund Cotter, "John Cennick (1718-1755): Methodism, Moravianism and the Rise of Evangelicalism" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
On Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
Aug 26, 2022
Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022
Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022
Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Aug 25, 2022
On Inazō Nitobe's "Bushido: The Soul of Japan"
Aug 25, 2022
Simon Truwant, "Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022
Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 19, 2022
Mark D. Steinberg, "Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 19, 2022
Elena Aronova, "Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Aug 19, 2022
Pascah Mungwini, "African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Aug 19, 2022
On Soren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"
Aug 19, 2022
Paul Robichaud, "Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Aug 18, 2022
Rochelle DuFord, "Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Aug 18, 2022
Hussein Banai, "Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 18, 2022
Marc Roscoe Loustau, "Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania: Reforming Apostles" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Lise van Boxel, "Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory Over Nihilism" (Political Animal Press, 2020)
Aug 15, 2022
Andrew Poe, "Political Enthusiasm: Partisan Feeling and Democracy's Enchantments" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Aug 12, 2022
Alexander Green, "Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Aug 11, 2022
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Aug 10, 2022
Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)
Aug 10, 2022
Lindsay Starkey, "Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Aug 09, 2022
January 6th and the Myth of the Mob: The Pervasive Power of Crowd Theory
Aug 08, 2022
Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 08, 2022
Itay Lotem, "The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Aug 05, 2022
Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)
Aug 04, 2022
Philip Tsang, "The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Aug 03, 2022
Wayne Allen, "Thinking about Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Aug 03, 2022
Timothy Bewes, "Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Aug 02, 2022
Megan Threlkeld, "Citizens of the World: U. S. Women and Global Government" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Aug 02, 2022
Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
Aug 01, 2022
Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022
Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jul 29, 2022
David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022
Skye Cleary, "How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Jul 27, 2022
Ali Mirsepassi, "The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jul 27, 2022
Thomas S. Kidd, "Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father" (Yale UP, 2017)
Jul 27, 2022
Presentism
Jul 26, 2022
The Bland Corporation: On the RAND Corporation and the Defence-Intellectual Industrial Complex
Jul 25, 2022
Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jul 25, 2022
Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context" (de Gruyter, 2021)
Jul 25, 2022
James P. Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler, "The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction" (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021)
Jul 25, 2022
Duy Lap Nguyen, "The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Jul 25, 2022
Jason Resnikoff, "Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 21, 2022
Maxwell Kennel, "Postsecular History: Political Theology and the Politics of Time" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jul 20, 2022
Xine Yao, "Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jul 19, 2022
Victoria W. Wolcott, "Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Patrick Hastings, "The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Donovan Sherman, "The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Jul 15, 2022
Christina B. Carroll, "The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850–1900" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jul 15, 2022
Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022
On Hannah Arendt and Humanitarianism
Jul 13, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Jul 13, 2022
Dean Krouk, "The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg Between the World Wars" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022
Spenser and Race: A Discussion with Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles
Jul 12, 2022
Travis W. Proctor, "Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 12, 2022