New Books in Intellectual History

2814 Episodes

1. Frank Gerits, "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966" (Cornell UP, 2023)

   Published: 2/12/2025
2. Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/12/2025
3. Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)

   Published: 2/10/2025
4. Josef Stern, "Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

   Published: 2/9/2025
5. Peter J. Bowler, "Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

   Published: 2/9/2025
6. Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)

   Published: 2/9/2025
7. Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)

   Published: 2/8/2025
8. Richard Rorty, "What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics" (Princeton UP, 2023)

   Published: 2/8/2025
9. Zahi Zalloua, "The Politics of the Wretched: Race, Reason, and Ressentiment" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 2/7/2025
10. Davide Panagia, "Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France" (Fordham UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/6/2025
11. We Are Free to Change the World: A Conversation on Hannah Arendt with Lyndsay Stonebridge

    Published: 2/5/2025
12. Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 2/4/2025
13. Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 2/4/2025
14. Cyrus Ali Zargar, "The Ethics of Karbala: Myths, Modernity, and Virtues of Nobility" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 2/3/2025
15. Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)

    Published: 2/2/2025
16. Moritz Mihatsch and Michael Mulligan, "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

    Published: 2/2/2025
17. Amanda Lagji, "Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

    Published: 2/1/2025
18. Ramachandra Guha, "Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism" (Yale UP, 2024)

    Published: 2/1/2025
19. Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 1/30/2025
20. Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 1/29/2025