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How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And what debt do they owe to
Udo Hock's Die rätselhaften Botschaften des Anderen. Zum Werk Jean Laplanches (The enigmatic message
In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ide
G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped
Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas (Oxford UP, 2023)
In Vocabulaire de Laplanche (PUF, 2024), edited by the renowned scholar and analyst, Hélène Tessier,
On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the s
When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (U California Press, 202
The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest and urgency to questions of racial oppression and
What do you do when you feel an itchy throat coming on? You probably head online, first to search fo
Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-
Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Columbia University Press, 2024) explores the rel
Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time (Cornell UP, 2025) tells the story of a group of twe
Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy's The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How
Political Theorist B.J. (Bernard J.) Dobski has a new book focusing on Mark Twain’s final published
In The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (Routledge, 2024), McManus presents a comprehensive gui
What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? B
Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectu
How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining
In The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (University of Minnesota Press, 2019),Benja
