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Critical Theory
Interviews with scholars of critical theory about their new books.
October 22, 2026
RTB 181 In Praise of Agnes Heller (1919-2019)
Agnes Heller loved being part of the Budapest School--and she hated being part of any school. In his 2019 In Memoriam piece, John explored her ambival…
October 22, 2026
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining
To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara Ahmed. In No! The Art and Activism of Complaining, her sweeping exploration of complaint as…
October 21, 2026
Rooted Movements
A Conversation with the author Amanda Batarseh about Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space (Syracuse UP, 2026).Present in the hea…
October 20, 2026
Searching for Jane Crow
In Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block (Beacon Press, 2022), historian Tal…
October 20, 2026
First Among Equals
Today, political theorists and philosophers treat as axiomatic the claim that all persons are equal. Dig deeper, however, and what we mean by equality…
October 18, 2026
In Defence of the Human Being
At a time when artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and digital technologies increasingly shape our understanding of what it means to be human, Fuch…
October 16, 2026
Living Chinese Philosophy
Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living"). In Living Chinese Philosophy: …
October 14, 2026
God and Humanity
God and Humanity: Herman Bavinck and Theological Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2024) is the first book to apply Bavinck's theological anthropology to cont…
October 12, 2026
Realism After the Individual
The realist novel, so the story goes, isn’t really an American genre but a European and British one. And what the realist novel does—again, according …
October 11, 2026
Healing and the Invention of Metaphor
It has long been understood that illness is influenced not only by our bodies' physiology, but also language, culture, and meaning. Healing and the In…
October 10, 2026
Painting Paranoia
The Soviet Union’s rise as a totalitarian state and economic rival to the United States sparked a cultural cold war. The conflict was colored by paran…
October 10, 2026
Working with Critical Realism
Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters (Routledge, 2022) is an international and interdisciplinary collection that gather…
October 10, 2026
Silence in Mood Disorders
Silence is frequently considered negative or harmful in both everyday life – for example, when we are silenced – as well as in psychiatry, where pover…
October 10, 2026
An Anticolonial Development
In An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa (Cambridge UP, 2026), Elisa Prosperetti argues that…
October 10, 2026
Green Thinking
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics (Routledge, 2026) is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated idea…
October 7, 2026
Think of England
What is the basis of English national identity? How has this changed over time, and what is its future? Tracing the history of English identity over m…
October 7, 2026
To Exist as a Problem
In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, "How does it feel to be a problem?" In this profound respon…
October 7, 2026
Notes from the Sex Worker Left
“If whores were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free” (ix). Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (Duke UP, 2026) open…
October 6, 2026
Strung Up
A powerful, unsettling, and unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white childhood conditioning, …
October 6, 2026
The Study
With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. An…