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Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat ar
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to
Is religion indispensable to public life? What can Gandhi’s thought contribute to the modern state?
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned cri
Lise Butler’s Michael Young, Social Science and the British Left, 1945-70 (Oxford UP, 2020) invites
During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies
The practice of Partition understood as the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lin
In Marx’s Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the
Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind this assertion
Who is a provincial? In Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (Yale UP, 2024), Sumana Roy asse
In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague,
If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appea
What can philosophy do? By taking up Black American cultural practices, Devonya N. Havis suggests th
Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-century South India (C
Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an
In The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context: Conquering the World (T&T Clark
In this podcast, Ashis Roy (Psychoanalyst (IPA) and author of the recently published book Intimacy i
Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manche
Lesley Smith of Oxford University joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fragments of a World:
