Philosophy & Religion

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

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  Keeping Memory: On Eduardo Cadava’s “Paper Graveyards”

  Branka Arsic considers Eduardo Cadava’s meditations on photography in “Paper Graveyards.”

  Branka ArsicApr 17, 2022

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  Technology After Hegemony: On Yuk Hui’s “Art and Cosmotechnics”

  Bryan Norton reviews the latest from Yuk Hui, "Art and Cosmotechnics."

  Bryan NortonApr 2, 2022

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Or Better Worse: On Michael Ignatieff and Consolation

  Robert Zaretsky is invigorated by Michael Ignatieff’s “On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times.”

  Robert ZaretskyMar 21, 2022

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  Identity in Three Acts

  Gloria B. Yu explores constructions of virtual self-identity, reviewing “You and Your Profile.”

  Gloria B. YuMar 13, 2022

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  From Minutemen to Infinite Men

  John Hay reviews Robert A. Gross’s latest book about the Concord Transcendentalists.

  John HayMar 6, 2022

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  Magical Thinking: On Mikhail Epstein’s Expansive History of Recent Russian Thought

  Josh Billings surveys Mikhail Epstein’s monumental survey of late and post-Soviet thinkers.

  Josh BillingsFeb 2, 2022

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  A Tribute to bell hooks

  bell hooks’s friends and colleagues remember the author, who passed away on December 15.

  Bettina L. Love, George Yancy, Gloria Steinem, Joy James, Karlyn Crowley, Stephanie Troutman Robbins, john a. powellJan 15, 2022

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  A Philosopher in Hard Times

  Samantha Rose Hill traces Hannah Arendt’s intellectual biography.

  Michael S. RothDec 26, 2021

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  A Neuroscience of Strange Gods

  Lisa Miller’s book “The Awakened Brain” examines the neuroscience of spirituality.

  Angus FletcherDec 22, 2021

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  Break the Great Chain of Being: On “Becoming Human” and “Being Property Once Myself”

  Brigitte Fielder reviews recent books by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Joshua Bennett.

  Brigitte FielderNov 17, 2021

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  The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle: Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” at 100

  Wittgenstein’s early opus exerted a huge influence on literary modernism.

  Jared Marcel PollenNov 7, 2021

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  The Aesthetics of the Void: On Brad Evans’s “Ecce Humanitas”

  Reconceiving the sacred, and the violence it authorizes, for a secular age.

  James R. MartelOct 30, 2021

  • Philosophy & Religion