New Books in Intellectual History

2560 Episodes

1. The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)

   Published: 7/6/2024
2. Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)

   Published: 7/5/2024
3. Ben Wright, "Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism" (LSU Press, 2020)

   Published: 7/2/2024
4. Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)

   Published: 7/1/2024
5. Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 7/1/2024
6. Pandemic Perspectives 14: A Classical Approach to Improving Communication

   Published: 6/30/2024
7. David Zeitlyn, "An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

   Published: 6/30/2024
8. Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)

   Published: 6/30/2024
9. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)

   Published: 6/29/2024
10. The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon

    Published: 6/29/2024
11. Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)

    Published: 6/28/2024
12. Post-Orientalism Revisited: A Conversation with Salman Sayyid

    Published: 6/27/2024
13. Shyam Ranganathan, "Yoga - Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice" (Singing Dragon, 2024)

    Published: 6/27/2024
14. Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)

    Published: 6/27/2024
15. Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī and Abū ʿAlī Miskawayh, "The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century" (NYU Press, 2019/22)

    Published: 6/26/2024
16. Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)

    Published: 6/26/2024
17. Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire: Luke Burgis on René Girard and Mimetic Desire

    Published: 6/26/2024
18. Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)

    Published: 6/24/2024
19. Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 6/24/2024
20. Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 6/22/2024