New Books in Intellectual History

Amanda Lagji, "Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) by Dr. Amanda Lagji reveals the fundamental, constitutive ...

Ramachandra Guha, "Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism" (Yale UP, 2024)

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world....

Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Where is the "life" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge th...

Tolkien, Philosopher of War: A Conversation with Graham McAleer

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we explore the profound philosophical and theological dimensions of J.R.R. Tolkien's work, particularly his views on war. In his book...

Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author who...

Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And what debt do they owe to scholars of the previous era? Focusing on the car...

Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, ab...

Udo Hock, "The Mysterious Messages of the Other: On the Work of Jean Laplanches" (Psychosozial-Verlag, 2024)

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Udo Hock's Die rätselhaften Botschaften des Anderen. Zum Werk Jean Laplanches (The enigmatic messages of the other. On the work of Jean Laplanche)...

Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas (Oxford UP, 2023) is an account of the economic drivers and outco...

Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as religion, aesth...

Hélène Tessier, "Laplanche's Vocabulary" (PUF, 2024)

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Vocabulaire de Laplanche (PUF, 2024), edited by the renowned scholar and analyst, Hélène Tessier, several of the key readers of Jean Laplanche'...

Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks an...

Rafael Rachel Neis, "When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species" (U California Press, 2023)

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (U California Press, 2023) investigates rabbinic treatises relating to an...

Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do when you feel an itchy throat coming on? You probably head online, first to search for your symptoms and then to evaluate the informat...

August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards, "The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution" (Brill, 2024)

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest and urgency to questions of racial oppression and emancipation. We’ve now had about a decade of ac...

Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-human relations are naturalised with reference to ...

Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Columbia University Press, 2024) explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in mode...

Bernard J. Dobski, "Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political Theorist B.J. (Bernard J.) Dobski has a new book focusing on Mark Twain’s final published novel, Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc. As ...

Nitzan Lebovic, "Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time" (Cornell UP, 2025)

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time (Cornell UP, 2025) tells the story of a group of twentieth-century Jewish intellectuals who grappled ...

Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy's The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom unpacks and debunks the bad id...

Chaya T. Halberstam, "Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging are ...

Matthew McManus, "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" (Routledge, 2024)

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (Routledge, 2024), McManus presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretchi...

Victoria Harms, "The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectuals, activists, and academics from the West infl...

Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic valu...

Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome, "Marxism and America: New Appraisals" (Manchester UP, 2021)

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: ...

Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019),Benjamin Meiches takes a novel approach to the study of...

Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2017). Dr. Whitebook w...

Catherine Hezser, "Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late antiqu...

Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America (Cornell UP, 2020), Theresa Keeley analyzes ...

Matthew C. Godfrey, ed., "The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Volume 7" (Church Historians Press, 2018)

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century American prophet who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, can, at times, be considered an elu...

Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and former editor at Working Woman and Ms. magazines. Her ...

Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020)

04 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Le...

The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Avi Shlaim is a celebrated "New Historian” whose earlier work established him as an influential historian of Middle Eastern politics and especially...

Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Polity Press, 2021), Stuart Elden, Professor of...

I. Augustus Durham, "Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius" (Duke UP, 2023)

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke UP, 2023), I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and me...

Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical...

Eric Storm, "Nationalism: A World History" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In N...

Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary (Pickwick, 2024), Kent Michael Shaw I examines...

Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studies...

Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelli...

Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influentia...

Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) is the first English-language biography of Henri B...

Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French b...

Kit Kowol, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

28 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conser...

Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)

28 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right,...

AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is based upon three readings: Alan Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence aka The Turing Test paper. Turing starts his paper by...

Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent...

Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can Black Atlantic literature challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarship? Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice (U Min...

Hartley Lachter, "Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism" (Stanford UP, 2024)

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan gu...

Kevin D. Pham, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2024)

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford UP, 2024), Kevin D. Pham introduces Vietnamese political thought to deba...

Ariel Evan Mayse, "Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism" (Stanford UP, 2024)

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritua...

Stephen Jackson, "The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools" (Routledge, 2022)

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools (Routledge, 2022) traces the historical development of the World History course as it has been t...

Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Kenny Cupers traces the rise of plan...

Zygmunt Bauman, "Theory and Society" (Polity, 2024)

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The publication of Theory and Society in 2024 bought to conclusion a three volume collection of The Selected Writings of Zygmunt Bauman. Preceded by...

Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Ziolkowski’s Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building (University of Wyoming Press, 2022) rev...

Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for p...

David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David J Collins, SJ joins Jana Byars to talk about Disenchanting Albert the Great: the Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician (Penn State Press, ...

Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East ...

Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, "Milton's Moving Bodies" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I am excited to talk to Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz about the new collection of essays they have edited. Milton’s Moving Bodies ...

Caroline Winterer, "How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America (Princeton UP, 2024), Caroline Winterer, William Robertson Coe Professor of His...

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America" (W. W. Norton, 2024)

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m speaking with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins about the new, edited volume, Did It Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America (W.W. Norto...

Bug

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Marcello Vitali-Rosati tells us about bugs! A bug can be a small insect, an illness, a spy device, or a digital malfun...

Nicola Kristin Karcher and Markus Lundström, "Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History" (Routledge, 2022)

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History (Routledge, 2022) is the first comprehensive history in English of fascism in the Nordic countrie...

Larry Alan Busk, "The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What really separates emancipatory thinking from its opposite? The prevailing Left defines itself against neoliberalism, conservative traditionalism, ...

George Steinmetz, "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is only in recent years that sociologists and historians of the social sciences have given empire the attention it deserves in histories of the dis...

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "Women and the Reformations: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place i...

Simin Fadaee, "Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics" (Manchester UP, 2024)

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. But today the legacy of Marxism i...

Geneviève Rousselière, "Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism they adopted has often been faulted for being exclu...

Theara Thun, "Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Cambodian history most people have heard of the great Khmer empire of Angkor, and the radical communist regime of the Khmer Rouge. But who has hear...

Ibn al-Muqaffaʿs "Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice"

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, translated by Michael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery, with a foreword by Marina...

Andrew Hui, "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. An...

Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain, "How Government Built America" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How Government Built America (Cambridge UP, 2024) challenges growing, anti-government rhetoric by highlighting the role government has played in par...

Elliot R. Wolfson, "Nocturnal Seeing: Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod" (Stanford UP, 2024)

30 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Nocturnal Seeing: Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod (Stanford UP, 2024), Elliot R...

Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Johanna Drucker’s Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) uncovers the enigmatic life and work of Ilia Zdan...

Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The metaphor of New Jerusalem has long been used to justify dueling narratives of America as the land of freedom with open gates and the walled city...

Anne B. Rodrick, "Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“We are a much-lectured people,” wrote Robert Spence Watson in 1897. Beginning at mid-century, cities and towns across England used the popular le...

Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An understanding of Dante the theologian as distinct from Dante the poet has been neglected in an appreciation of Dante's work as a whole.  That is ...

Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated audacious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an instituti...

Steve J. Shone, "Dangerous Anarchist Strikers" (Brill, 2023)

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dangerous Anarchist Strikers (Brill, 2023) explores the ideas of three largely forgotten radical women who participated in labor union strikes in Arg...

Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitio...

Ken Krimstein, "Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Between 1911 and 1912, Prague was home to Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka, two of the twentieth-century’s most influential minds. During this brief ...

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" (Northwestern UP, 2024)

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024), Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay enact a dialogue between cinema, philo...

Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (University of Georgia Press, 2021) Dr. Liliana Naydan analyses representa...

Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hig...

Erica Benner, "Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power" (Penguin, 2024)

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Dr. Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: f...

Joan L. Bryant, "Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-century America" (Oxford UP, 2024)

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Activists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing,...

Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, di...

Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023)

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour through the reception of Yoga philosophies in ninetee...

Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the interna...

Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self...

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, "In Search of Jonathan: Jonathan Between the Bible and Modern Fiction" (Oxford UP, 2023)

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In both modern fiction and the biblical texts of 1 Samuel 13-2 Samuel 1, the character of Jonathan serves as a key literary and theological figure. Th...

Erin Lee Mock, "Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II" (U Virginia Press, 2024)

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual...

Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in...

J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Alisa talks with Lewis H. Siegelbaum, who, along with J. Arch Getty, edited Reflections on Stalinism (Northern Illinois University ...

Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java (Duke UP, 2023), Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from...

Laure Astourian, "The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema" (Indiana UP, 2024)

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema (Indiana UP, 2024) traces the surprising ...

The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarl...

Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vaughn Scribner joins Jana Byars on the occasion of the paperback edition of Merpeople: A Human History (Reaktion, 2024) People have been fascinate...

Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak's works translated into Eng...

Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain....