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What is freedom? If we are free, why do we feel anxiety? How do I relate to the world? Saint Augusti
In 1848, as political movements and events were sweeping Europe and Marx and Engels penned their fam
Today I talked to Ágúst Magnússon about his new book Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought: A Com
In an exciting new book titled Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care (C
As they worked on the second edition of What is Europe? (Routledge, 2022), Anna Triandafyllidou and
In the strategy game Civilization VI, where players choose world leaders to be their avatar, Qin Shi
Some time, millenia ago, people began using sounds: to coordinate, to solve problems, to think. Expl
What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic
Professor Martin’s A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern Worl
In Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Ohio State University Pres
Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) is just one of the many African American intellectuals whose work
Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help isn’t just an advice manual. It represents the invention of a genre, and no
In her diary, Simone de Beauvoir once wrote “I did not think of myself as a 'woman.' I was me.” Then
In this episode of the Vault, we hear Harry Berger’s talk about Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Liv
Modern imagination of the Puritans typically casts them in a repressive, conservative light. But tha
In his fascinating and painstakingly research new book Messianic Ideas and Movements in Sunni Islam
The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the century that followed, thousands sought to beco
In On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation (Hong Kong UP, 2022), Michael Keevak tra
Martin Fárek's India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Orienta
