New Books in Intellectual History
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2601
Lea David, "The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers...
David critically investigates the relationship between human rights and memory, suggesting that, instead of understanding human rights in a normative fashion, human rights should be treated as an ideology...
64 min
2602
Christopher J. Blythe, "Terrible Revolution: La...
Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity...
37 min
2603
Takeshi Morisato, "Faith and Reason in Continen...
Considering the examples of Christianity and Buddhism, Morisato focuses on finding the solution to the problem of philosophy of religion through comparative examinations of Tanabe’s metanoetics and Desmond’s metaxology...
50 min
2604
Adriaan C. Neele, "Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1...
Neele combines work by new and well-established scholars to examine the ways in which the achievements of this eminent protestant scholastic theologian have impacted upon theology and philosophy...
28 min
2605
Alison Games, "Inventing the English Massacre: ...
Alison Games shows how the English East India Company transformed that conspiracy into a massacre through printed works, both books and images, which ensured the story's tenacity over four centuries...
90 min
2606
Annelien de Dijn, "Freedom: An Unruly History" ...
We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But who came up with this understanding of freedom, and for what purposes?
34 min
2607
Durba Mitra, "Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and th...
Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society...
43 min
2608
Aaron Koller, "Unbinding Isaac: The Significanc...
Koller provides a compelling contemporary perspective on one of the Bible's most famous and difficult texts, the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac...
57 min
2609
Jonathan Robinson, "Rights at the Margins: Hist...
The authors invite readers to consider whether individual rights were in fact, or at least in theory, available to the marginalized...
90 min
2610
Teresa A. Goddu, "Selling Antislavery: Abolitio...
Goddu a richly illustrated history of the American Anti-Slavery Society and its print, material, and visual artifacts...
57 min
2611
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth...
French offers a comprehensively researched and finely argued book that traces Barthes engagement with questions of cinema from early research pre-dating the publication of Mythologies to his last work, Camera Lucida,,,
71 min
2612
Malcolm Keating, "Controversial Reasoning in In...
Keating offers a ground-breaking reference resource for understanding arthāpati, and debates in Indian philosophy at large....
64 min
2613
Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention...
Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....
52 min
2614
Hettie V. Williams, "Bury My Heart in a Free La...
Black women intellectuals have traditionally been overlooked in the academic study of American intellectual history...
35 min
2615
Alexander Kaye, "The Invention of Jewish Theocr...
The tension between secular politics and religious fundamentalism is a problem shared by many modern states. This is certainly true of the state of Israel...
49 min
2616
Steven Heine, "Readings of Dōgen's 'Treasury of...
Heine gives us a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise...
53 min
2617
Muhammed Fraser-Rahim, "America’s Other Muslims...
Fraser-Rahim explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context...
65 min
2618
Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rig...
Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....
68 min
2619
Joshua B. Freeman, "Behemoth: A History of the ...
Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and social change...
58 min
2620
Iain Murray, "The Socialist Temptation" (Regner...
Just thirty years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall...
62 min
2621
Sandra Young, "The Early Modern Global South in...
Young proposes a new set of terms with which to understand the racialized imaginary inscribed in the scholarly texts that presented the peoples of the south as objects of an inquiring gaze from the north...
70 min
2622
Behnaz A. Mirzai, "A History of Slavery and Ema...
Mirzai offers the first history of slavery in modern Iran from the early nineteenth century to emancipation in the mid-twentieth century...
61 min
2623
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Rivier...
Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter...
54 min
2624
Crawford Gribben, "An Introduction to John Owen...
Gribben details his subject’s conception of the roles that belief and doctrine should play in the lives of Christians....
33 min
2625
Richard G. Moore, "The Writings of Oliver Olney...
Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri...
32 min