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Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America (SUNY Press, 2022) proposes the exist
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav’s book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood (Pengu
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherent
In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies,
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks display
Remember the bleach drinking episode? Remember ‘alternative facts’? Remember ‘I have the best words’
Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy and th
In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer b
Jack Palmer’s Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile (McGill-Queen’s Univers
In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purpos
After close to three decades of the hegemony of free market ideas, the state has made a big comeback
In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformit
This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of thei
We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts,
Leo Strauss was a German-Jewish emigrant to the United States, an author, professor and political ph
In Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University of Chicago Pr
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume c
Many scholars and members of the press have argued that John Roberts’ Supreme Court is exceptional.
