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New Books in Critical Theory

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Matt Dawson “Social Theory for Alternative Societies” (Palgrave, 2016)

2016/9/9

What can social theory offer to visions of an alternative society? In his new book, Social Theory fo

Ibram X. Kendi, “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” (Nation Books, 2016)

2016/9/8

Ibram X. Kendi is an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida. S

John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco, “Cuba, the United States, and the Cultures of the Transnational Left, 1930-1975” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

2016/8/29

John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco’s new book, Cuba, the United States, and the Cultures of the Transnational

Jean Chalaby, “The Format Age: Television’s Entertainment Revolution” (Polity, 2015)

2016/8/29

Television had been transformed by the rise of the format. In The Format Age: Television’s Entertain

Peter Trawny, “Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)

2016/8/15

In Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy (University of Chicago Press, 2015), Peter Tr

Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

2016/8/2

In The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Jack Jac

Eric Schickler, “Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965” (Princeton UP, 2016)

2016/8/1

Eric Schickler is the author of Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-

Russell Rickford, “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power and the Radical Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2016)

2016/7/31

Russell Rickford is an assistant professor of history at Cornell University. We Are an African Peopl

Susan Cahan, “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” (Duke UP, 2016)

2016/7/21

The struggle for representation within the art museum is the focus of a timely and important new boo

Ayten Gundogdu, “Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2016/6/26

How does one “rethink and revise the key concepts of Hannah Arendt’s political theory in light of th

Les Back, “Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters” (Goldsmiths Press, 2016)

2016/6/23

Why does higher education still matter? In Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters, L

Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman, “The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada” (Fernwood, 2015)

2016/6/15

Two Canadian political science professors contend that the grotesque inequities of the capitalist sy

Jeremy Ahearne, “Government through Culture and the Contemporary French Right” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

2016/6/8

How did two right wing presidents use culture to govern France? In Government through Culture and th

Alfred Frankowski, “The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Towards a Political Sense of Mourning” (Lexington Press, 2015)

2016/6/2

How are cultural practices that suggest social inclusion at the root of marginalizing social sufferi