New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Emily Troscianko, “Kafka’s Cognitive Realism” (Routledge, 2014)

   Published: 5/2/2016
2. Alfie Bown, “Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism” (Zero Books, 2015)

   Published: 4/18/2016
3. Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman, “Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy” (Bloomsbury, 2016)

   Published: 4/18/2016
4. Heather Boushey, “Finding Time: The Economies of Work-Life Conflict” (Harvard UP, 2016)

   Published: 4/4/2016
5. Simon Critchley, “ABC of Impossibility” (Univocal Publishing, 2015)

   Published: 3/7/2016
6. Amy Allen, “The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory” (Columbia UP, 2016)

   Published: 3/7/2016
7. Timothy Snyder, “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning” (Tim Duggan Books, 2015)

   Published: 1/28/2016
8. Jennifer Mittelstadt, “The Rise of the Military Welfare State” (Harvard UP, 2015)

   Published: 12/10/2015
9. Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report” (Princeton UP, 2015)

   Published: 12/7/2015
10. Jason W. Moore, “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” (Verso, 2015)

    Published: 12/3/2015
11. Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)

    Published: 12/1/2015
12. Philip Roscoe, “A Richer Life: How Economics Can Change the Way We Think and Feel” (Penguin, 2015)

    Published: 11/19/2015
13. Nancy Bauer, “How to Do Things With Pornography” (Harvard UP, 2015)

    Published: 11/15/2015
14. Lisa Tessman, “Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality” (Oxford UP, 2015)

    Published: 11/1/2015
15. Colin Milburn, “Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter” (Duke UP, 2015)

    Published: 10/27/2015
16. Jeffery S. Gurock, “The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967” (Rutgers UP, 2015)

    Published: 10/22/2015
17. Jon Birger, “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” (Workman Publishing Company, 2015)

    Published: 10/15/2015
18. Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)

    Published: 10/7/2015
19. Eugene Thacker, “Horror of Philosophy” (Zero Book, 2011-2015)

    Published: 9/28/2015
20. Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)

    Published: 9/17/2015