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Does human existence have a meaning? If so, is that meaning found in the world outside of us, or is
In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an investigation into the nature of wealth. Smi
What would an “anti-field history” of Buddhist Studies look like? What does the social history of kn
Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set h
Carl von Clausewitz wrote On War in 1832 after experiencing the Napoleonic wars. The eight books of
In An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism (Co
In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment
Robin McCoy Brooks' book Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe, and Social Action (Routledge, 2021) uses psych
Today’s episode focuses on the new book by Lydia Moland, who is a Professor of Philosophy at Colby C
Immanuel Kant’s early work wasn’t much to write home about. But as his career developed, Kant publis
Origin stories of the United States often highlight religious freedom as a foundational pillar of th
Joseph Conrad, who published 20 books and several best-sellers by the time of his death, was also a
Sandeep Banerjee's book Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Pos
The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess,
In 1651, the English Civil Wars were ending, and Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan. He used the book
John Behr's book John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology (Oxford UP, 2021
Nissim Mannathukkaren's book Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South
rom the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar
You may know the term “Machiavellian,” but where does the word really come from? Niccolò Machiavelli
A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why
