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Maurice Finocchiaro, “On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Maurice Finocchiaro
On Trial for Reason
Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Italian StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network March 26, 2020 Aaron Weinacht

In his new book On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair (Oxford University Press, 2019), Maurice Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.” Galileo’s original trial and condemnation forms the first affair, the cultural history of controversies about the meaning of... Read More
Todd McGowan, “Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution” (Columbia UP, 2019)
Todd McGowan
Emancipation After Hegel
Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network March 23, 2020 Bill Schaffer

An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to questions of contemporary theory and politics. It seeks to disabuse readers of common misapprehensions concerning Hegel’s philosophy, such as the... Read More
Jessie Labov, “Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation” (Central European UP, 2019)
Jessie Labov
Transatlantic Central Europe
Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation
Central European University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 20, 2020 Steven Seegel

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term “Central Europe” carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s, and as a political and intellectual project it has receded from the horizon. Proponents of a distinct cultural profile of these countries―all involved... Read More
Andrew Ollett, “Language of the Snakes” (U California Press, 2017)
Andrew Ollett,
Language of the Snakes
Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India
University of California Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network March 19, 2020 Malcolm Keating

Andrew Ollett, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, argues in his book, Language of the Snakes (University of California Press, 2017), that Prakrit is “the most important Indian language you’ve never heard of.” In this book, subtitled “Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language... Read More
Nancy Sinkoff, “From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History” (Wayne State UP, 2020)
Nancy Sinkoff
From Left to Right
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
Wayne State University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network March 17, 2020 Steven Seegel

From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (Wayne State University Press, 2020)  is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called “Holocaust Studies.” Dawidowicz was a household name in the postwar... Read More
Alan Taylor, “Thomas Jefferson’s Education” (W. W. Norton, 2019)
Alan Taylor
Thomas Jefferson’s Education

W. W. Norton, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in EducationNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 16, 2020 Derek Litvak

Alan Taylor is the author of Thomas Jefferson’s Education published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. Thomas Jefferson’s Education tells the story of how Jefferson’s vision for educating the next generations of American came to be. Taking readers through Virginia’s, at time struggling, educational infrastructure, Taylor shows how... Read More
Paul Hanebrink, “A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Paul Hanebrink
A Specter Haunting Europe
The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network March 16, 2020 Max Kaiser

In A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Harvard University Press, 2018), Paul Hanebrink, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at  Rutgers University, traces the complex history of the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism. Hanebrink shows how Fascists, Conservatives and Nazis imagined Jewish Bolsheviks as enemies who crossed borders to subvert order from within... Read More

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