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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 Bernard Murphy, “How to Think Politically” (Bloomsbury, 2019)
James Bernard Murphy
How to Think Politically
Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World
Bloomsbury, 2019

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 25, 2020 Kirk Meighoo

What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news and the hysteria to explore the timeless questions posed and answers offered by a diverse group of the 30 greatest political... Read More
Iva Glisic, “The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930” (NIU Press, 2018)
Iva Glisic
The Futurist Files
Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930
Northern Illinois University Press, 2018

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network May 21, 2020 Aaron Weinacht

Futurism was Russia’s first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the creation of a new, modern society. Over the next two decades, the protagonists of Russian Futurism pursued... 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
Derek Penslar, “Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader” (Yale UP, 2020)
Derek J. Penslar
Theodor Herzl
The Charismatic Leader
Yale University Press, 2020

New Books in BiographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & Faith May 19, 2020 Peter Bergamin

The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a stern moralist yet possessed of deep,... Read More
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, “Mary, Mother of Martyrs” (FSR, 2018)
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins
Mary, Mother of Martyrs
How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity
Feminist Studies in Religion, 2018

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith May 19, 2020 Diana Dukhanova

Throughout Christian history, the Virgin Mary has been idealized as a self-sacrificing mother and a model for all Christian women to emulate. However, she is one of many ancient maternal figures whose narratives pivot on violent loss. In her 2018 monograph Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in... Read More
Nancy Mattina, “Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture” (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
Nancy Mattina
Uncommon Anthropologist
Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society May 13, 2020 Alex Golub

Protégé of Elsie Clews Parsons and Franz Boas, founder and head of Barnard College’s anthropology department, and a trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard (1893–1955) is one of America’s least appreciated anthropologists. Her accomplishments were obscured in her lifetime by differences in intellectual approach and envy, as... Read More

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