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Democracy, argues David Wiles, is actually a form of theatre. In making his case, the author deftly
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can b
In Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024), Dr. Richard
The origins and nature of nationhood and nationalism continue to be topics of heated scholarly debat
Liberal democracies don’t age gracefully. Established systems of governance like those of the UK and
In Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought (Prince
In Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism (Stanford Univer
African Literature and US Empire Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing (Edinbu
Benjamin P. Davis’s Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics (Edinb
In Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Julia Jarcho propo
Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, Savages and
In The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization (University of Chica
Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as well as a legendary chess player. H
How do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so d
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) reveals how political and literary dialogue
Many of us are familiar with the ancient Egyptians’ obsession with immortality and the great efforts
In Enlightenment Biopolitics (U Chicago Press, 2024), historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambit
With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the R
Today’s guest is Dr Thomas Sutherland, author of the Bloomsbury title, Speaking Philosophically: Com
Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of scie
