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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Coverin
Sean Hannan offers a new interpretation of Augustine of Hippo's approach to temporality by contrasti
The overturning of Roe v. Wade has led to a flurry of commentary and wondering, "Where next?" But, i
The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise (O
Israeli political philosopher Yoram Hazony discusses the Enlightenment, the American Founding, his l
In 1979, sociologist and NYIH founder Richard Sennett, and philosopher Michel Foucault, discussed th
Today Recall this Book welcomes Zachary Horton, Associate Professor of Literature and director of th
A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary (Bloom
What does it mean to be a hundred? Perhaps Fredric Nietzsche would know. He’s in part the star of th
In the United States, unjust disparities in things like income, opportunity, health, safety, and edu
In this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted i
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), e
Is the search for meaning a luxury of the modern world or have human beings always struggled to find
The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equ
Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2022) upends some of the myths that have come to surround
Professor Cathleen Chopra-McGowan examines some the incongruities of our Bible in the context of the
How do ideas manifest outside of their place of origin, and how do they change once they do? The Eme
Historian John Jeffries Martin traces narratives of the Apocalypse over the last 500 years in the Ch
In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that study
With In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam (Duke Uni
