Philosophy & Religion

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

Violence Against Women from Ancient Rome to Today: On Mithu Sanyal’s “Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo”
Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews Mithu Sanyal’s history-crossing account of violence against women in “Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo.”
Stephanie Sy-QuiaJul 17, 2019
Confronting the Unwatchable
Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Baer on our unwatchable era.
Maggie Hennefeld, Nicholas BaerJul 17, 2019
Historia Magistra Vitae: On Reinhart Koselleck’s Vision of History
Joshua Milstein excavates “Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories” by Reinhart Koselleck, translated by Sean Franzel and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann.
Joshua MilsteinJul 10, 2019
A Messenger of the Rope: In Conversation with Peter Sloterdijk
A major German philosopher on the legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Robert Pogue HarrisonJul 10, 2019
- Around the World
- Philosophy & Religion
A Deformed Emancipation: Lea Melandri and the Lie of Gender Equality
Mary Mann looks at Lea Melandri’s “Love and Violence,” the Italian feminist thinker’s first book available in English.
Mary MannJul 9, 2019
Our Predicament Is No Joke: On Terry Eagleton’s “Humour”
Kieran Setiya takes a serious look at “Humour” by Terry Eagleton.
Kieran SetiyaJul 4, 2019
- Cultural Studies
- Philosophy & Religion
Literature Versus Utopia: An Ancient Quarrel
Why do we prefer heroic suffering to utopian contentment?
John FarrellJun 30, 2019
Friends Like These: On Thoreau and Emerson
Daegan Miller reviews Jeffrey S. Cramer’s new book about the friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Daegan MillerJun 24, 2019
Blowing the Philosopher’s Fuses: Michel Foucault’s LSD Trip in the Valley of Death
James Penner takes a trip through “Foucault in California” by Simeon Wade, which chronicles the day when a great French philosopher blew his mind.
James PennerJun 17, 2019
- Memoir & Essay
- Philosophy & Religion
Jewish Identity on the Move
David Lipset reviews two new essay collections about Jewish identity, "Freud and Monotheism" and "Jews and the Ends of Theory."
David LipsetJun 16, 2019
- Philosophy & Religion
- Religion
One Feels a Malady: On Robert N. Watson’s “Cultural Evolution and its Discontents”
William Flesch reviews "Cultural Evolution and its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure."
William FleschJun 7, 2019
The Customer Is Wrong: The Commodity and the Work of Art
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch reviews Nicholas Brown’s “Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism.”
Adam Theron-Lee RenschJun 5, 2019