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New Books in Intellectual History

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Part 3 of 3.In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a serie

Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations.To pay throug

Part 2 of 3.In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a serie

John Milton is unrivalled--for the music of his verse and the breadth of his learning. In this brisk

The early 1930s constituted an ambiguous moment for the roughly three million Jews that resided in t

Annie Reiner’s introduction to Wilfred Bion’s theories of mind presents Bion’s intricate ideas in an

In Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark (T&T Clark, 2022), Nat

From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of Eng

Part 1 of 3.In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a serie

Arya Aryan's The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) not only disc

Neurasthenia

2022/12/23

In this episode of High Theory, Kim talks with Saronik about neurasthenia. A disease that no longer

James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its

Martin Heidegger did not like small thoughts. He was fascinated by the most expansive questions huma

In The New Freedom and the Radicals: Woodrow Wilson, Progressive Views of Radicalism, and the Origin

Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (U Pennsylvania Press,

Ariana Huberman's Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production 

Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II (Harvard University Press, 2022

In Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 (Oxford Univ

A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, gove

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience