New Books in Critical Theory

Steven Segal, "Mandela’s Leadership Legacy: Emotional and Existential Wisdom" (Routledge, 2026)

19 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Mandela’s Leadership Legacy: Emotional and Existential Wisdom (Routledge, 2026) Steven Segal explores Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary ability...

Michael D. Nichols, "Batman and the Classics: Echoes of Mythology, Literature and Philosophy in the Comics and Films" (McFarland, 2026)

18 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fans of Batman are used to seeing the Caped Crusader associate with the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman, but what if one were to put the Dark Knigh...

Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: On Classical and Modern Democracy with Josiah Ober

17 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

American democracy is in a period of crisis, so it seems natural to look back to its origins. So here in Episode 10 of Season 5, I interview Professor...

Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025)

14 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fiṭra...

Jeffrey Hoelle, "Cultivated: Plants, Hair, and the Aesthetic of Control" (Yale UP, 2026)

13 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An exploration of the concept of cultivation, as conducted on both the land and the body, which expands our understanding of it as practice, aesthet...

Curtis Dozier, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" (Yale UP, 2026)

13 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how ...

Jeffrey R. Di Leo et al. eds., "Theory as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

12 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? Theory as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 20...

Don Thomas Deere, "The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space" (Duke UP, 2026)

11 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, 2026), Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of s...

Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists" (U Notre Dame Press, 2026)

10 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Athenian Democracy provides innovative readings of ancient theorists to reveal both the complexity of democracy's achievements and its limits. In At...

Natalia Rogach Alexander, "Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP, 2025)

10 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

John Dewey is among history’s most celebrated thinkers on democracy and education, yet he has often been underappreciated and misunderstood as a ph...

Joanna Stalnaker, "The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death" (Yale UP, 2025)

09 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were facing death? Joanna Stalnaker turns our usua...

Javier Arbona-Homar, "Explosivity: Following What Remains" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

08 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, Explosivity: Following What Remains (U Minnesota Press, 2025) unearths the hidden legac...

Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

07 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The study of French science fiction – even in France – remains an underexploited field. Only recently have French literary scholars been able to g...

Michael Brownstein et al., "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" (MIT Press, 2025)

06 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference. Ch...

Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

05 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) sheds a new light on the ...

Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)

03 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law ha...

Alex Law, "The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process" (Routledge, 2026)

02 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment have often been claimed for sociology. But, what does it mean to say these thinkers were sociologists, or...

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)

02 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It’s a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not on...

Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)

02 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was ...

On The State of Black Men's Studies and Black Masculinist Thought Scholarship

02 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Wide ranging interview with Dr. Ronald L. Jackson II, Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies, the University of Miami. Interview exp...

Gloria Sibson Ayob, "The Concept of Emotional Disorder" (Oxford UP, 2025)

02 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Concept of Emotional Disorder (Oxford University Press, 2025) is a philosophical and academic exploration of how society determines whether emot...

Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, "Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age" (Bristol UP, 2026)

31 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Is food porn a vibrant and democratic new expression of modern food culture or a superficial addition to an image-saturated world? Tracing its origins...

Gary Hoover, "Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead" (U California Press, 2026)

30 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead (University of California Press, 2026), Gary Hoover asks the reade...

Michael E. Sawyer, "The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black" (Temple UP, 2026)

28 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black (Temple University Press, 2026), Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy ...

Laura Tisdall, "We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain" (Yale UP, 2026)

27 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What was life like for young people in twentieth century Britain? In We Have Come to Be Destroyed: Growing Up in Cold War Britain (Yale University...

Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

26 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood. An acclaimed poet with a quiet, dig...

Andrea Zarafshon Moore, "Audible Loss: New Music and the Crisis of Memory" (Fordham UP, 2025)

26 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It is a compulsion of the human race to find a way to memorialize those we have lost and why we have lost them, from a gravestone of a loved one to wa...

Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)

25 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Glitter (Bloomsbury, 2022) by Dr. Nicole Seymour reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Dr. Seymour describes how glitter'...

Thomas Xavier Sarmiento, "The Heartland of US Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest" (Temple UP, 2026)

23 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Published by Temple University Press in 2026, The Heartland of US Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest examines Filipinx cultur...

Utku Balaban, "Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers" (U California Press, 2025)

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What explains the rise of religious populism in contemporary Turkish politics and society? How does industrialization help to explain change and con...

Shyam Ranganathan, "Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026)

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Why have moral philosophers largely ignored colonialism? In Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression (Bloomsbury Academic...

Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)

21 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a po...

Angharad N. Valdivia and Isabel Molina-Guzmán, "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes" (NYU Press, 2026)

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From Ghostbusters to Will & Grace, One Day at a Time to Jurassic Park, the past decade has seen Hollywood reach a new peak in its obsession with...

Brett Neilson, "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" (Verso, 2024)

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

At the heart of the fiercest international conflicts is the struggle for the future of globalization. In the wake of a pandemic that tested econom...

Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

18 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our bodies and brains are radically transformable, mutable and plastic. From the neuroplasticity of the brain to the epigenetic malleability of our bo...

Drew M. Dalton, "The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

17 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us today would assume that morality and ethics, being value propositions, are questions for inspired leaders, religious creeds, poets—in oth...

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)

12 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns wi...

Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)

08 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“Parental rights” is a rallying cry for today’s American conservatives, signaling opposition to mandatory vaccination and “woke” public scho...

Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Can art change the contemporary world? In Feminism, Art, Capitalism Angela Dimitrakaki, a Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at th...

James Q. Whitman, "Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

04 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work...

Alana Lentin, "The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy" (Pluto Books, 2025)

04 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The New Racial Regime begins by interrogating the backlash against critical race theory and explains how the so-called war on woke can be used agains...

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media ...

D. Vance Smith, "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe.Virgil. Chaucer. ...

Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the early twentieth century, a group of white writers, artists, and performers from the cultural hub of Charleston, South Carolina, created and cur...

Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures wh...

Mapping Out Food and Philosophy

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode introduces a special issue on food and philosophy. Robert T. Valgenti, of Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective, talks with Andrea Borgh...

Francisco Martínez, "The Future of Hiding: Secrecy, Infrastructure, and Ecological Memory in Estonia's Siberia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

28 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How can lives and things that are rendered invisible be crucial to identity, politics, and the future? Drawing on experimental ethnographic research i...

Rugged Individualism

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this special student edition of High Theory, Andrew Bennett, Jo Hoffman, Kai North, and Ally Sullivan tell us about Rugged Individualism, a concept...

Sarah Jaffe, "From the Ashes: Grief and Transformation in a World on Fire" (Bold Type Books, 2024)

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From the author of Work Won't Love You Back, a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change. Our era is one of significant ...

169* Hannah Arendt on Oases (JP)

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our Recall This Buck series began by speaking with Christine Desan of Harvard Law School about how key ideas—and the actual currency, physical coins...

Manuel Barcia, "Pirate Imperialism: Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825–1870" (Yale UP, 2026)

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, imperial powers around the world came into direct confrontation with local resistance in the form of ...

Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a...

Amanda Anderson and Simon During, "Humanities Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026)

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Humanities Theory (Oxford UP, 2026) pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face ...

Alisa Kessel, "Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence" (Oxford UP, 2025)

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence...

Devika Dutt et al., "Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction" (Polity Press, 2025)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. Decolonizi...

Donald Sassoon, "Revolutions: A New History" (Verso Books, 2025)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Revolutions: A New History (Verso Books, 2025) is a sparkling account of political upheaval and the power of history. We think of revolutions in ter...

Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti...

Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Tuesday, April 7, 2026—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans ...

Decolonizing the Novum

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the n...

Jasper Bernes, "The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising" (Verso Books, 2025)

12 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading rev...

Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Panini’s Ashtadyayi is one of the most famous works in Sanskrit, a so-called “linguistic machine” that, through its 4,000 words, allows someone ...

Michaela Hulstyn, "Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Altered states of consciousness – including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence –...

Leslie Barnes, "Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film (Edinburgh UP, 2025), Leslie Barnes examines the ambivalences that mar...

Andrew Lister, "Justice and Reciprocity" (Oxford UP, 2024)

05 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines the place of reciprocity in egalitarianism, focusing on John Rawls...

Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice" (MIT Press, 2025)

04 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The first in-depth exploration of the work of artist Cory Arcangel, a pioneer of DIY-new media art whose influential “hacks” subvert the confines ...

Amir Saemi, "Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil" (Oxford UP, 2024)

04 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Amir Saemi’s exciting book Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (Oxford UP, 2024) is a fascinating and dee...

Daniel Rachel, "This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich" (Akashic Books, 2026)

04 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Ke...

Pre-Reading

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Milan Terlunen talks to Kim about Pre-Reading. There are many books we will never read and films we will never watch, ...

Mark Pennington, "Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2025)

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Foucault and Liberal Political Economy: Power, Knowledge, and Freedom by Mark Pennington This highly original and innovative book is the first to co...

Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the fo...

Emmanuel Ofuasia, "Ìwà: the Process-Relational Dimension to African Metaphysics" (Springer, 2024)

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Correction: In the interview, the host mistakenly mentioned that Prof. Ofuasia is teaching the University of Pretoria. In reality, Prof Ofuasia is c...

Thomas Hegghammer and Diego Gambetta eds., "Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2024)

28 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Time spent and words spent—what does each signal? Deceptive mimicry—the manipulation of individual or group identity—includes passing off as a ...

The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—a...

Hsuan L Hsu, "Olfactory Worldmaking" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Smell is a vital, if underappreciated, medium through which we inhabit and imagine the world. In Olfactory Worldmaking (University of Minnesota Pres...

Prolepsis

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Gloria Fisk talks to Kim about Prolepsis. Defined by Gerard Genette in the 1970s, prolepsis is a flash forward, the op...

David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods An engaging biography of one of the most influe...

Philip C. Almond, "Noah and the Flood in Western Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha mal...

Becca Voelcker, "Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction" (U California Press, 2025)

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of s...

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani et al. eds., "The Futures of Reparations in Latin America: Imagination, Translation, and Belonging" (Rutgers UP, 2026)

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last thirty years, Latin America has undergone an unprecedented wave of reparations targeting victims of political violence during military r...

Paul Kohlbry, "Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2026)

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland. Peasant farming was once an inte...

Miriam Ticktin, "Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this timely and bold book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World (U Chicago Press, 2025), Miriam Ticktin explores how a concept that...

H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect" (Princeton UP, 2025)

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

James Bryce (1838–1922) was a leading figure in Britain’s Liberal Party and a distinguished historian, a versatile scholar-politician who moved se...

Alec Ryrie, "The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It" (Reaktion, 2025)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis—and where it might take us. We live in ...

Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story (Reaktion, 2026) proposes a bold reimagining of a frequently dismissed condition. Dr. Susannah B. Mintz refram...

Yanshuo Zhang, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

China is a multicultural country home to fifty-five ethnic minority groups, yet due to linguistic and cultural barriers many of these groups remain un...

Tristan J. Rogers, "Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2025)

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2025), Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservati...

Wendy Brown, "States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton Un...

What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered di...

Sari Hanafi, "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In an era of deepening polarization, Sari Hanafi examines how social scientists often reproduce the very injustices they seek to challenge, taking ent...

Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 2026), philosopher Jacob Stegenga breaks with the most domina...

Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Movies open a window into our collective soul. In Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Lever Press, 2026), Stephen Lee Naish guides us thr...

The Cave and the Coalition: Philosophy, Populism, and the MAGA New Right

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI acting director Eli Karetny sits down with political theorist Laura Field to trace the intellectual cur...

Sean Parson, "Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Punk Anarchism: An Anti-Politics of Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2026) is a radical critique of contemporary politics, offering an alternative framewo...

Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical th...

Damion Searls, "The Philosophy of Translation" (Yale UP, 2024)

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Philosophy of Translation (Yale UP, 2024) is a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what translation really is and what translators act...

David L. Eng, "Reparations and the Human" (Duke UP, 2025)

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked in graphic terms the specter of total human destruction. In response, a new in...

Catherine Elgin, "Epistemic Ecology" (MIT Press, 2025)

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecolo...

Ailbhe Kenny, "Music Refuge: Living Asylum through Music" (Oxford UP, Press 2025)

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How can music change people’s lives? In Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music (Oxford UP, Press 2025) Ailbhe Kenny, an Associate Professo...

Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers th...

Hanna Pickard, "What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing But Cocaine?: A Philosophy of Addiction" (Princeton UP, 2026)

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Hanna Pickard has written a revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addiction.  Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively?...