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Tragic Revolutionary Comic Figures: On Joseph Harris’s “Misanthropy in the Age of Reason”
Ian Ellison reviews Joseph Harris’s “Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller.”
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
Humanism Is a Frail Craft: On Sarah Bakewell’s “Humanly Possible”
Robert Zaretsky reviews Sarah Bakewell’s “Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope.”
The Binary of American Philosophy: On Jonathan Strassfeld’s “Inventing Philosophy’s Other”
Erik Hmiel reviews Jonathan Strassfeld’s “Inventing Philosophy’s Other: Phenomenology in America.”
In Search of a Reasonably Clear Conscience: On Paul Woodruff’s “Living Toward Virtue”
Howard J. Curzer reviews Paul Woodruff’s “Living Toward Virtue: Practical Ethics in the Spirit of Socrates.”
The Politics of Disenchantment: On Wendy Brown’s “Nihilistic Times”
Kieran Setiya reviews Wendy Brown’s “Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber.”
Pilgrimage to Self-Awareness: On Liz Bucar’s “Stealing My Religion”
Kurt Caswell reviews Liz Bucar’s “Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation.”
Anger’s Privilege
Benedict Robinson dicusses anger and the power and privilege associated with it.
No Frigate Like a Metaphor: On Hans Blumenberg’s “The Readability of the World”
Bruce Krajewski reviews Hans Blumenberg “The Readability of the World,” translated by Robert Savage and David Roberts.
Things Are Never as Dark as They Seem: A Conversation with Pico Iyer
Pooja Pande interviews Pico Iyer about his new book “The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise.”
Epicurus for Our Time
Robert Pogue Harrison approaches Epicurus for different ways of looking at the problems of today.
Fashioning Death
Gwenda-lin Grewal examines the parallels between philosophy and fashion.
Does a Final Theory Exist?: A Conversation with Alan Lightman
Julien Crockett talks with Alan Lightman about his new book “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science.”
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