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Santiago Zabala, “Being at Large: Freedom in the Ago of Alternative Facts” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2020)
Santiago Zabala
Being at Large
Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
McGill-Queens University Press, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology May 25, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

In recent years, questions around the nature of ​truth ​and ​facts have reentered public debate, often in discussions around journalistic bias, and whether politically neutral reporting is possible, or even desirable. Many pundits have tried to place blame for the increasingly slippery and fickle nature of truth in reporting on... Read More
James M. Jasper, “Public Characters: The Politics of Reputation and Blame” (Oxford UP, 2020)
James M. Jasper
Public Characters
The Politics of Reputation and Blame
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 22, 2020 Susan Liebell

Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encourage the public to see them as weak or immoral? What is character work and how do characters with roots in ancient crease... Read More
Noëlle McAfee, “Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics” (Columbia UP, 2019)
Noëlle McAfee
Fear of Breakdown
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & Technology May 22, 2020 Tracy Morgan

In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened.  Taking her cue from Winnicott, Noëlle McAfee’s Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics (Columbia University Press, 2019), explores the implications of breakdown fears for... Read More
Yassir Morsi, “Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Yassir Morsi
Radical Skin, Moderate Masks
De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies
Rowman & Littlefield, 2017

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Sociology May 22, 2020 Kristian Petersen

Muslims living in locations like Australia, Europe, or North America exist within a context dominated by white racial norms and are forced to grapple with those conventions on a daily basis. If they succeed in meeting the presiding criterion of secular liberalism they can be dubbed a “moderate” Muslim by... Read More
Massimo Modonesi, “The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action​” (Haymarket, 2019)
Massimo Modonesi
The Antagonistic Principle
Marxism and Political Action
Haymarket Books, 2019

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology May 21, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

What does it mean to be a political subject? This is one of the key questions asked by Massimo Modonesi in ​The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action (2019)​, published as part of the Historical Materialism book series from Brill and Haymarket books. The book takes on the theories of... Read More
Nancy J. Chodorow, “The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye” (Routledge 2020)
Nancy J. Chodorow
The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye
Toward an American Independent Tradition
Routledge, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 20, 2020 Sebastian Thrul

In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge 2020) Professor Nancy J. Chodorow gives name and shape to an American middle group between the ego psychological and interpersonal approaches: The American Independent Tradition or intersubjective ego psychology. Through her careful exegesis of theoreticians like... Read More
John D. Caputo, “Hoping Against Hope” (Fortress Press, 2015)
John D. Caputo
Hoping Against Hope

Fortress Press, 2015

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Secularism May 15, 2020 Yakir Englander

John D. Caputo has a long career as one of the preeminent postmodern philosophers in America. The author of such books as Radical Hermeneutics, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, and The Weakness of God, Caputo now reflects on his spiritual journey from a Catholic altar boy in 1950s... Read More
Paul Harkins, “Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies” (Routledge, 2019)
Paul Harkins
Digital Sampling
The Design and Use of Music Technologies
Routledge, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in MusicNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in Sound StudiesNew Books in Technology May 14, 2020 Dave O'Brien

How does technology shape music? In Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies (Routledge, 2019), Paul Harkins, a lecturer in music at Edinburgh Napier University, looks at the relationship between the rise of digital sampling, technology, and music. The book draws inspiration from Science and Technology Studies to explore... Read More

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