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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
Zahi Zalloua, “​Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-Racist Future​” (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Zahi Zalloua
​Žižek on Race
Towards an Anti-Racist Future​
Bloomsbury, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Sociology March 23, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

The Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek’s prolific quips on various cultural and political issues around race and related issues, found either in short YouTube clips or lengthy books have gained a lot of attention, much of it admittedly confused and occasionally offended and frustrated. Part of this is... Read More
Amy Reed-Sandoval, “Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Amy Reed-Sandoval
Socially Undocumented
Identity and Immigration Justice
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in LawNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 20, 2020 Sarah K. Tyson

In Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice (Oxford University Press, 2020), Amy Reed-Sandoval reframes the question of immigration justice by focusing on the historical development and lived experiences of socially undocumented identity. Drawing on ethnography, phenomenological analysis, storytelling, and a non-ideal theory approach, she tracks the development of racialized, class-based,... Read More
Kareem Khalifa, “Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Kareem Khalifa
Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge

Cambridge University Press, 2017

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network March 10, 2020 Carrie Figdor

What is the relation between understanding and knowledge in science? Can we understand a scientific theory if it is false? Do we understand a scientific proposition we can’t elaborate or do anything with? In Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge (Cambridge University Press 2017), Kareem Khalifa argues for a revised version... Read More
Richard Polt, “Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Richard Polt
Time and Trauma
Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties
Rowman and Littlefield, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & Society March 4, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party, a skepticism that has resurfaced with the publication of the ​Black Notebooks​, private journals he kept throughout the last several decades of his life. In... Read More
David Estlund, “Utopophobia: On the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy” (Princeton UP, 2020)
David Estlund
Utopophobia
On the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network February 28, 2020 Robert Talisse

It is tempting to hold that any proposed principle of social justice is defective if it demands too much of people, given their proclivities.  A stronger view, one that many philosophers find attractive, has it that there is something about the concept of justice that makes it the kind of... Read More
Megan Burke, “When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Megan Burke
When Time Warps
The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence
University of Minnesota Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network February 20, 2020 Sarah K. Tyson

In When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), Megan Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,... Read More

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