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The Politics of Social Change
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Company Towns
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The Unruly Facts of Race
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Against Innocence
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Heart of Science
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The Accidental Equalizer
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Articulating Difference
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The Pandemic Workplace
A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically. In The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in th…
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The Work of Disaster
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Sincerely Held
"Sincerely held religious belief" is now a common phrase in discussions of American religious freedom, from opinions handed down by the US Supreme Cou…
February 5, 2026
Lands of Likeness
In Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (U Chicago Press, 2023), Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a medita…
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Unforgiving Places
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