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Saba Bazargan-Forward, "Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2022)
2022/11/1

We often find ourselves acting in concert with others, where what we do together goes beyond the cau

Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)
2022/11/1

In the face of a Korean cultural world preoccupied with newness, literary output from the more measu

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)
2022/10/31

In 1869, Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew, accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halévy on his ar

Red Cat
2022/10/31

In this episode of High Theory, Leigh Claire La Berge talks about red cats: communist cats, revoluti

Mackenzie Cooley, "The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
2022/10/31

The Renaissance is celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves to greatness,

John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
2022/10/31

The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics (Princeton UP, 2022) investigates the evolu

On Augustine's "Confessions"
2022/10/31

What is freedom? If we are free, why do we feel anxiety? How do I relate to the world? Saint Augusti

Bartholomew Ryan, "Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno" (Brill, 2014)
2022/10/28

In 1848, as political movements and events were sweeping Europe and Marx and Engels penned their fam

Ágúst Magnússon, "Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
2022/10/28

Today I talked to Ágúst Magnússon about his new book Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Com

Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
2022/10/28

In an exciting new book titled Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care (C

Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas, "What is Europe?" (Routledge, 2022)
2022/10/28

As they worked on the second edition of What is Europe? (Routledge, 2022), Anna Triandafyllidou and

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
2022/10/27

In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shi

Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
2022/10/27

Some time, millenia ago, people began using sounds: to coordinate, to solve problems, to think. Expl

Rachel Aumiller, "A Touch of Doubt: On Haptic Scepticism" (de Gruyter, 2021)
2022/10/27

What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic

John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)
2022/10/27

Professor Martin’s A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern Worl

Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
2022/10/26

In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Pres

Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
2022/10/26

In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Pres

Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
2022/10/26

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose work

On Samuel Smiles' "Self-Help"
2022/10/26

Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help isn’t just an advice manual. It represents the invention of a genre, and no

On Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"
2022/10/25

In her diary, Simone de Beauvoir once wrote “I did not think of myself as a 'woman.' I was me.” Then