New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Ralph Young, “Dissent: The History of an American Idea” (NYU Press, 2015)

   Published: 5/19/2017
2. Sharrona Pearl, “Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)

   Published: 5/18/2017
3. Carrie Jenkins, “What Love is: And What it Could Be” (Basic Books, 2017)

   Published: 4/25/2017
4. Benjamin Hale, “The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature” (MIT Press, 2016)

   Published: 4/15/2017
5. Cristina Bicchieri, “Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms” (Oxford UP, 2017)

   Published: 4/1/2017
6. Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco, “The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture” (Routledge, 2016)

   Published: 3/27/2017
7. Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)

   Published: 3/19/2017
8. Berit Brogaard, “On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion” (Oxford UP, 2015)

   Published: 2/13/2017
9. David Rosen and Aaron Santesso, “The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood” (Yale UP, 2013)

   Published: 2/9/2017
10. Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom, eds “Digital Sociologies” (Policy Press, 2016)

    Published: 2/9/2017
11. John Hadley, “Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals” (Lexington Books, 2015)

    Published: 2/9/2017
12. Alan J. Levinovitz, “The Limits of Religious Tolerance” (Amherst College Press, 2016)

    Published: 1/14/2017
13. Nicholas A. John, “The Age of Sharing” (Polity Press, 2016)

    Published: 1/6/2017
14. Matthew MacWilliams, “The Rise of Trump: America’s Authoritarian Spring” (Amherst College Press, 2016)

    Published: 10/22/2016
15. McKenzie Wark, “Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene” (Verso, 2015)

    Published: 10/10/2016
16. Martha Nussbaum, “Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice” (Oxford UP, 2016)

    Published: 9/1/2016
17. Samantha Barbas, “Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America” (Stanford Law Books, 2016)

    Published: 8/25/2016
18. Peter Harrison, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)

    Published: 7/21/2016
19. Lance deHaven-Smith, “Conspiracy Theory in America” (U of Texas Press, 2014)

    Published: 7/1/2016
20. Ho-fung Hung, “The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World” (Columbia UP, 2016)

    Published: 5/18/2016