New Books in Intellectual History
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Jamie Aroosi, "The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaar...
Aroosi has written an important book that brings together the theoretical work of Karl Marx and Soren Kierkegaard in a kind of intellectual encounter...
38 min
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Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti, "The Politics of Rel...
Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularization of the State and society...
56 min
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Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Lite...
Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...
65 min
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E. Danto and A. Steiner-Strauss, "Freud/Tiffany...
When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?
58 min
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Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation...
At the center of this analysis is what Meiches refers to throughout his text as the hegemonic understanding of genocide...
54 min
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Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Re...
Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...
57 min
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David Varel, "The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrect...
Allison Davis (1902-1983) was a pioneering anthropologist who did ground-breaking fieldwork in the Jim Crow south, challenged the racial bias of IQ tests, and became the first African American to be tenured at the University of Chicago...
63 min
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Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early Am...
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade...
59 min
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Sarah Anne Carter, "Object Lessons: How Ninetee...
Carter reveals that object lessons were a classroom exercise, in wide use during the nineteenth century...
59 min
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Jonathan Gienapp, "The Second Creation: Fixing ...
Gienapp revisits the Founding Era to retell the story of America’s favorite document...
60 min
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Sergei Zhuk, "Soviet Americana: The Cultural Hi...
Zhuk offers an insightful investigation of the development of American studies in the Soviet Union, with a specific emphasis on Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine...
78 min
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Lorenzo Andolfatto, "Hundred Days’ Literature: ...
Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens...
64 min
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Michael E. Kerr, "Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revea...
A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bowen...
50 min
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Greta LaFleur, "The Natural History of Sexualit...
The book effectively historicizes categories that are often take for granted (sex, race, vice, habit), and shows us not only their temporal contingency, but by inviting the reader to delve into the strangeness of early modern ontologies and epistemologies...
77 min
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Bhakti Shringarpure, "Cold War Assemblages: Dec...
Shringarpure integrates a variety of disciplinary perspectives while also weaving together the encounters and reverberations between the Cold War and decolonization and the post-colonial experience...
43 min
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Paul J. Croce, "Young William James Thinking" (...
James’s mature thinking as a radical empiricist was formed through his experiences and intellectual curiosity as a young man...
61 min
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Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princ...
"Sex and Secularism" is a compelling analysis of the discourse of secularism in the modern democratic (imperial) nation-states of “the West”.
57 min
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Jeffrey T. Zalar, "Reading and Rebellion in Cat...
Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based intellectual repression...
59 min
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Matthew Edney, "Cartography: The Ideal and Its ...
Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray...
56 min
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David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisa...
Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...
32 min
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
65 min
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Edward Vallance, "Loyalty, Memory and Public Op...
Vallance examines ‘loyal addresses’ as mechanisms for the expression of public opinion, and as links between the local and national contexts of politics...
54 min
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Craig Keener, "Galatians: A Commentary" (Baker ...
Keener's commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians offers a wealth of fresh insights...
50 min
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Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and...
Dean examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States...
35 min
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David Milne, "Worldmaking: The Art and Science ...
An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...
72 min